Bryan Cooper

The 30-year-old won nine races at the Cheltenham Festival, his career highlight coming when Don Cossack won the Gold Cup in 2016.

Best of luck for the future from all of us at Cullentra House Stables." To my family, the owner, trainers, and stable staff who have supported me throughout my whole career, I can't thank you enough for some incredible days. He said: "Happy Retirement @92bryan92.

Bryan Cooper rode 36 Grade One winners in his 14-year career as a jockey, including the 2016 Gold Cup at Cheltenham with Don Cossack; Cooper was a regular ...

Best of luck for the future from all of us at Cullentra House Stables." Multiple Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Barry Geraghty was among those to pay tribute to Cooper, commenting: "Best of luck Bryan in your next chapter. Trainer Gordon Elliott, who saddled 10 of Cooper's 36 career Grade One winners, said: "Happy retirement Bryan.

Cooper scaled the highest of highs during his career when guiding Don Cossack to success in the Cheltenham blue riband in 2016. The Kerry native was flying high ...

To my family, the owners, trainers and stable staff who have supported me throughout my whole career, I can't thank you enough for some incredible days. He missed out on last week's Cheltenham Festival after being unseated from Farceur Du Large in the Leinster National at Naas on the eve of the Cotswolds and he has now opted to call time on his career to the surprise of many. Cooper had one of his best days in the saddle when guiding Nolan's Mrs Milner to Cheltenham Festival success in the 2021 Pertemps while he has also regularly partnered with O'Leary in recent years.

CHELTENHAM Gold Cup-winning jockey Bryan Cooper has made the surprise announcement that he will retire from race riding with immediate effect at the age of ...

Cooper, one of the most talented riders in the Irish weighing room, revealed the decision in a statement on Friday afternoon, having not taken any rides since the weekend before the Cheltenham Festival. “To my family, the owners, trainers and stable staff who have supported me throughout my whole career, I can’t thank you enough for some incredible days. He also missed further action in separate incidents that saw him endure a collapsed lung and liver laceration, break his arm and fracture his pelvis.

Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning rider Bryan Cooper has announced his retirement from the saddle with immediate effect.

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'I'm young to retire, I know that. The injuries have taken their toll, they've caught up with me and I can't go on doing it'

“I feel really bad the way I did it over there because he had a runner and it was his first runner there since 2012. The last decade has been lean though and it was a big deal for him to bring a horse over for the Champion Bumper this year. It was just that every time he looked at his watch or flicked on his phone, he found himself mentally counting down the hours to the three rides he was going to have to suit up for the next day. He travelled around and got out of the racing bubble and hacked through the briars in his head. The O’Learys sacked him from the Gigginstown job in the summer of 2017, partly for his attitude, partly for his work ethic, mostly for the fact that he wasn’t winning enough. I was riding the best horses and I was delivering plenty of winners. He’d had a couple of bad years, in and out of the saddle. He came back to Cheltenham in 2015 and won the RSA on Don Poli. One minute Cooper was about to claim his fourth Cheltenham winner, the next he was in an ambulance, bound for surgery and seven months on the sidelines. “I was up soon after him and I was in bits. “When I came out with it on Wednesday and said it to people that were there with me, they were like, ‘How in the name of God were you doing it for so long, thinking about it that way?’ And when I’ve been thinking about it over the last week as well, that’s what’s been in my mind. And when I knew I didn’t let down Noel, when he was able to understand and was 100 per cent okay with it, then I started to calm down.

Bryan Cooper, 30, won the 2016 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Don Cossack - one of a number of big race winners ridden during three seasons as first jockey to ...

To my family, the owners, trainers and stable staff who have supported me throughout my whole career, I can’t thank you enough for some incredible days. He enjoyed the biggest highlights of his career for the powerful team, and as well as Don Cossack, rode top level victories on the likes of Apple’s Jade, Don Poli, Road To Riches, Road To Respect and Identity Thief. The Irishman enjoyed a meteoric rise in his twenties when he rode three winners at the 2013