Rossa Ryan

Ryan finished second to Jason Watson in the 2018 British apprentice jockeys' championship.^[2] In August 2019 he achieved his first Group race success, winning the Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood on Duke of Hazzard, trained by Paul Cole.^[3] In June 2020 he rode his first Royal Ascot winner on Highland Chief, trained by Paul and Oliver Cole, in the Golden Gates Handicap.^[4] The following month he accepted the offer of a retainer from owner Kia Joorabchian, who had horses in training with Hannon.^[2] Over the next two years he achieved five Group race victories for Joorabchian before they parted company in August 2022.^[3][5]

Ryan rode more than a century of winners for the first time in 2021, in spite of having to take time off for a broken collar bone and surgery to remove his appendix.^[2] Two winners at Royal Ascot in June 2023 included Valiant Force, a 150/1 outsider in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes, owned by Ryan's former employer Joorabchian.^[4] He claimed his first Group 1 victory in the 2023 July Cup at Newmarket on Shaquille, trained by Julie Camacho. "That was the run of my life," he said after the race.^[6] He ended the season 3rd in the Jockeys' Championship with 104 winners at an 18% strike rate. Over the winter 2023-24, he won the British All-Weather Jockeys Championship with 85 victories, ahead of nearest challenger Billy Loughnane on 59.^[7]

Great Britain

• July Cup - (1) - Shaquille (2023)

Ireland

• Pretty Polly Stakes - (1) - Bluestocking (2024)

France

• Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - (1) - Bluestocking (2024)
• Prix Vermeille - (1) - Bluestocking (2024)

United States

• Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint - (1) - Starlust (2024)