Jimmy Duggan

JIMMY DUGGAN

 

 
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about Jimmy

Jimmy Duggan (born 9 August 1964, Hillingdon, Middlesex) is an English jockey.
Having his first competitive race ride on 22 October 1979. His first winner came five months later at an Irish point-to-point meeting on 10 February 1980.
His first of 311 professional victories came at Leopardstown when riding "Killeenyarda" in February 1982.
Jimmy rode in 3,500 races in his very successful career as a top Steeplechase Jockey.
He has broken most of the bones in his body and had a few almost career ending injuries from falls in races but always bounced back to race again.
It was in the 1983 Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham where at the age of 19 Duggan had his first big race winner when riding Amarach. Along with Sailors Dance Duggan won the 1985 Scottish Champion Hurdle, at Ayr in Scotland.

One of Jimmy Duggan's most memorable winning rides came at Aintree, Liverpool in the guise of the 1986 Sandeman Hurdle, where the partnership took on a number of top class hurdlers, including the three times and reigning Champion Hurdler, See You Then. The pair battled it out side by side up the run in to the line, Aonoch holding on to beat the champion by a neck, with Duggan giving Aonoch a tremendous ride of strength and precision, two of Duggan's trademarks
Since retiring from the saddle, Jimmy Duggan has since moved to the Los Angeles in the United States where he has become a successful businessman and Real Estate agent with Keller Williams Westlake Village, and is now married to his wife Jane (July 2003) with one daughter, Grace.
Jimmy is also well-known face on American television, as the voice of steeplechasing and leading steeplechase analyst in the country.

 
 
 

 

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When you’re lying at home with a broken collar bone, broken hands and feet, all you think about is getting back in the saddle.
— Jimmy Duggan

 

 

 

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