Adrian Maguire, born 29 April 1971 in Kilmessan

Kilmessan

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, County Meath

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, Ireland

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, is a racehorse trainer

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 and former jockey

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Maguire began his career in Irish pony racing at the age of nine, in which he rode more than 200 winners. In 1990 he rode his first winner under rules, at Sligo

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, before his first victory in the United Kingdom

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 a year later. In the 1993-1994 season he rode 194 winners but lost the jockeys' championship

British jump racing Champion Jockey

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 by a margin of three to Richard Dunwoody

Richard Dunwoody

Thomas Richard Dunwoody MBE is a retired British jockey in National Hunt racing. He was a three-time Champion Jockey, riding 1699 British winners in his career. His father was a leading Point to Point rider...

. Maguire won a total of 1,024 races in the UK and has been described as "the greatest jump jockey never to end up as [British jump racing Champion Jockey]".

He announced his retirement from race riding on 28 October 2002, at the age of 31, following a fall at Warwick

Warwick Racecourse

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 in March in which he broke his neck and was lucky to avoid paralysis

Paralysis

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. Maguire later became a racehorse trainer and is based in Lombardstown

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, County Cork

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Maguire's nephew, Jason Maguire

Jason Maguire

Jason Maguire , is a Irish horse racing jockey who won the 2011 Grand National on Ballabriggs.-Early life and career:Maguire is the nephew of another former jockey Adrian Maguire. He started out in Irish pony races and as he started his career rode his first winner, Search For Peace at Cheltenham...

, is also a National Hunt jockey and won the 2011 Grand National

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 on Ballabriggs

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