Type: Visiting Jockey

Nationality: Ireland

Background:
Age: 30. Oisin Murphy won the British jockeys' championship for the first time in 2019 with 220 wins and bagged an international major that same year aboard Suave Richard in the Japan Cup. He also captured the British Champion Jockey title in 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The Killarney native is a graduate of the Irish pony racing circuit. Schooled in riding by his uncle, the Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey Jim Culloty, Murphy worked summer holidays for trainers Tommy Stack and Aidan O'Brien. He was apprenticed to Andrew Balding in England in 2012 and had his first race ride in 2013 when 18. He ended his first season (2013) with 41 wins, including a four-timer on Ayr Gold Cup Day that featured the historic sprint handicap itself. Murphy impressed in winter stints in Australia and the United Arab Emirates before undertaking his first short-term riding contract in Hong Kong in the winter of 2016/17, which brought four wins. In 2024, he achieved his biggest Hong Kong success with Giavellotto in the Hong Kong Vase. His Group 1 breakthrough came in 2017 on Aclaim in the Prix de la Foret and two weeks later he took the E.P. Taylor Stakes on Blond Me in Canada. In recent years he has built associations with Asfoora, Khaadem and Lead Artist, whilst Royal Champion is his latest Group 1 victor, winning the 2026 Neom Turf Cup in Saudi Arabia.

Achievements:
British Champion Jockey (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 & 2025); British Champion Apprentice (2014).

Notable Race Wins Include
Hong Kong Vase (2024 Giavellotto), Japan Cup (2019 Suave Richard), 2000 Guineas (2020 Kameko), 1000 Guineas (2023 Mawj), Eclipse Stakes (2018 Roaring Lion), Breeders' Cup Distaff (2021 Marche Lorraine), Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (2025 Balantina), King Charles II Stakes (2024 Asfoora), Irish Champion Stakes (2018 Roaring Lion), Nassau Stakes (2019 Deirdre), Commonwealth Cup (2023 Shaquille), Lockinge Stakes (2025 Lead Artist), Sussex Stakes (2018 Lightning Spear, 2021 Alcohol Free), Futurity Trophy (2019 Kameko), Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (2025 Asfoora), Prix de la Foret (2017 Aclaim), Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (2018 Royal Marine), Prix Marcel Boussac (2021 Zellie), Prix Maurice de Gheest (2025 Sajir), Dubai Turf (2018 Benbatl), Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (2018 Benbatl, 2025 Tornado Alert), Haydock Sprint Cup (2018 The Tin Man, 2020 Dream Of Dreams), Falmouth Stakes (2019 Veracious), International Stakes (2018 Roaring Lion), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (2018 Roaring Lion), Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (2024 Khaadem), Neom Turf Cup (2026 Royal Champion).

Hong Kong Career Wins
(as of 8 April): 6