# Billy Loughnane crowned champion jockey at 20

> The Irish rider becomes Britain's youngest champion jockey in over a century, beating five-time champion Oisin Murphy to the title.
- Title: Billy Loughnane crowned champion jockey at 20 · BBC Sport
- Summary: The Irish rider becomes Britain's youngest champion jockey in over a century, beating five-time champion Oisin Murphy to the title. Billy Loughnane, aged…
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- Source: BBC Sport — https://bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/articles/cv98zwz4y2w4o
- Published: 2026-10-17T16:37:53.674+00:00
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## Twenty-year-old wins title at Ascot
Billy Loughnane, an Irish jockey aged twenty, was crowned Britain's champion jockey at Ascot on Saturday, beating five-time champion Oisin Murphy.
## Youngest champion since nineteen twenty-three
Loughnane became the youngest champion jockey since Charlie Elliott in nineteen twenty-three, a record that had stood for over a century.
## Four years from debut to success
Four years after his racing debut, Loughnane won the two thousand Guineas in May and rode to four further Group One victories among more than two hundred twenty wins this year.
## Loughnane on his passion for racing
I love my job and I love riding horses, it's all I ever wanted to do, said Loughnane, nicknamed Billy the Kid, reflecting on his childhood visits to Wolverhampton.

> I love my job and I love riding horses, it's all I ever wanted to do
## Loughnane eyes record and repeat title
Loughnane is now eyeing Sir Gordon Richards' nineteen forty-seven record of two hundred sixty-nine winners in a calendar year and is not squashing the idea of going for the championship again in twenty twenty-seven.
## Key takeaway

Billy Loughnane, aged twenty, became Britain's youngest champion jockey since nineteen twenty-three, beating Oisin Murphy to claim the title at Ascot.