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Brian Hughes says his instinct is to run away from the limelight but the man who has turned this season’s jump jockeys’ championship into a procession finally gets his chance to be centre stage at Sandown.
When the 36-year-old from County Armagh won his first title, the 2019-20 season was brought to a premature end because of Covid and Hughes received his championship trophy in his back garden from Grand National- winning-jockey-turned-TV-pundit Mick Fitzgerald, with only wife Luci and children Rory, four, and Olivia, three, in attendance.
On Saturday afternoon, when Hughes walks through the traditional guard of honour of his fellow jockeys to receive acclaim for his outstanding campaign it will be in front of 12,000 spectators including two of his sisters who have flown in from Australia and Canada.
Brian Hughes has enjoyed a phenomenal jump jockey's championship in the 2021/22 season
What they will be celebrating is not just a champion. Hughes has
