Pat Smullen

Pat Smullen, who lived from 22 May 1977 to 15 September 2020, was an Irish flat jockey from County Offaly who won the Irish champion jockey title nine times between 2000 and 2016. His career ran from 1992 to 2018 and brought 1,845 winners in Ireland and 47 in Britain. From 1999 until his retirement he was first jockey to the trainer Dermot Weld, and together they won the 2016 Epsom Derby and Irish Derby with Harzand, owned by the Aga Khan, among twelve European Classic victories. Smullen won the Irish St. Leger four years running on Vinnie Roe, starting in 2001. He retired in May 2018 on medical advice after treatment for pancreatic cancer and in 2019 organised a legends race at the Curragh to raise money for research into the disease.