HALLANDALE Beach, FLA. (WSVN) – The $3 million Pegasus is a person the richest horse races in all of North The us. In Saturday’s race in Gulfstream Park, there was a person jockey who splits his time racing on two various tracks.
There is no jockey in the environment like Richard Kingscote.
When he isn’t racing on 4 legs, he’s racing on two wheels.
“If you are not concentrating on it, then you’re likely to have challenges,” Kingscote mentioned. “So it’s form of, it is all in that second really.”
The 35-calendar year-aged races horses down the extend at 40 mph.
Off the turf keep track of, he’s on one more track racing motorcycles that hit speeds of upwards 155 mph.
“It’s distinct for the reason that clearly I have additional expertise on the horses, and there I’m likely more comfortable undertaking that,” Kingscote mentioned. “The bike takes me out of my consolation zone a bit, but it’s superior for me to take my head in the ideal location for driving horses,” Kingscote stated.
Kingscote is closing in on 1,400 occupation wins as 1 of the top jockeys in the U.K.
He picked up the sport as a teen.
“I was not bred into racing at all, so I experienced no family involved,” he reported. “My mother got a pony, so just commenced riding ponies down the beach just about every day, each and every university getaway, each and every weekend, every minute I could I’d be on the again of a horse, so that acquired me heading and commenced racing when I was 16. It’s been upwards due to the fact then.”
At the very same time, Kingscote began racing motorcycles.
It is the require for velocity that continues to entice him to both equally sports.
Fellow jockeys at the observe are asking why.
“The point I imagine is that it is an unneeded chance, but it’s something I love and it can take me absent from the race, and it receives my head in a great place, so you could possibly as well do what you love,” Kingscote claimed.
He has his eye on competing and successful major races in the two sports.
“Yeah definitely, if I can get a experience in it, that would be cracking, but who is familiar with what will come,” Kingscote reported.
The last jockey attract for the Pegasus Globe Cup and the Pegasus stakes races will be finalized Monday.
Cyberknife will come in as the early 5-2 favored.
Though Kingscote is not racing horses or bikes, he works as a plumber.
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