Sean Bowen’s anticipated crowning as this season’s champion bounce jockey could be totally deserved after the Welshman’s merciless luck with damage a yr in the past, says his major coach Olly Murphy.
Getting into the ultimate month of the 2024-25 season, and heading into Grand Nationwide week, Bowen holds a lead of 31 wins, external over his nearest challenger Harry Skelton.
Bowen, the secure jockey at Midlands-based Murphy’s Warren Chase stables in Warwickshire, was main the race to be champion jockey final season, solely to endure a fall on Boxing Day which dominated him out of motion for 2 months.
In that point, his nearest rival and good friend Harry Cobden overtook Bowen and constructed a sufficiently big result in win his first title.
Though Bowen’s present lead now appears protected, Murphy is praying his jockey will get the job achieved safely by the point the prize is offered at Sandown Park on Saturday 26 April.
“I do not assume anybody would now begrudge Sean his first title after what he went by way of final season,” Murphy informed BBC Sport. “It was gut-wrenching for him, being thus far clear after which getting injured.”
Murphy doesn’t have an entry for Saturday’s Nationwide at Aintree, so Bowen has picked up a spare trip on 20/1 shot Three Card Brag for Irish coach Gordon Elliott, Murphy’s former boss.
