Horse racing: Four times champion jump jockey Johnson retiresHorse racing: Four times champion jump jockey Johnson retires
Four-times British champion jump jockey Richard Johnson announced his retirement on Saturday at the age of 43. The Englishman holds the record for most appearances in the Grand National without winning (19), and is second in the all-time list of National Hunt Racing winners behind Tony ‘AP’ McCoy. “That’s it for me,” he told in a surprise announcement after finishing third on Brother Tedd at Newton Abbott.