Wayne Kavanagh
Wayne Patrick Kavanagh was a journeyman jump jockey who achieved his biggest success when a 7lb claimer on the Seamus Mullins-trained See You Sometime in the £61,970 to the winner United House Gold Cup at Ascot on October 28, 2006. That was Wayne’s first season as a professional, having ridden three winners as an amateur in the 2004/05 campaign, starting with Geordie's Express, successful in a hunters' chase at Kelso on 19 May 2004. The first of his six winners in the 2005-06 campaign was as an amateur.
Wayne Patrick Kavanagh was a journeyman jump jockey who achieved his biggest success when a 7lb claimer on the Seamus Mullins-trained See You Sometime in the £61,970 to the winner United House Gold Cup at Ascot on October 28, 2006. That was Wayne’s first season as a professional, having ridden three winners as an amateur in the 2004/05 campaign, starting with Geordie's Express, successful in a hunters' chase at Kelso on 19 May 2004. The first of his six winners in the 2005-06 campaign was as an amateur.
He rode mainly for Seamus Mullins and partnered his hurdler Kawagino in several big races, in which they constantly outperformed their outsider status without managing to win one. In 2007 they finished fifth behind Sublimity in the Champion Hurdle, turned out again three days later to finish fourth in the County Hurdle, then came fifth in the Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle. In 2008 they were runners-up in the Lanzarote Hurdle, ninth of the 14 finishers in Katchit’s Champion Hurdle, finishing in front of some better-fancied rivals, and second in the National Hunt jockeys’ race at Goodwood. In 2009 they returned to Cheltenham in March and finished fifth in the Coral Cup.
He rode mainly for Seamus Mullins and partnered his hurdler Kawagino in several big races, in which they constantly outperformed their outsider status without managing to win one. In 2007 they finished fifth behind Sublimity in the Champion Hurdle, turned out again three days later to finish fourth in the County Hurdle, then came fifth in the Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle. In 2008 they were runners-up in the Lanzarote Hurdle, ninth of the 14 finishers in Katchit’s Champion Hurdle, finishing in front of some better-fancied rivals, and second in the National Hunt jockeys’ race at Goodwood. In 2009 they returned to Cheltenham in March and finished fifth in the Coral Cup.
Sadly, Wayne did not ride that many winners, one of the last of them being Fergall in a Huntingdon handicap hurdle on December 12, 2013. His last two winners were Fergall and Flugzeug on which he landed a double at Plumpton on 20 April 2014. Both horses were trained by Seamus Mullins.
Sadly, Wayne did not ride that many winners, one of the last of them being Fergall in a Huntingdon handicap hurdle on December 12, 2013. His last two winners were Fergall and Flugzeug on which he landed a double at Plumpton on 20 April 2014. Both horses were trained by Seamus Mullins.
He was still claiming a 3lb allowance when pulling up on his final ride on Too Trigger Happy at Newton Abbot on July 3, 2015.
He was still claiming a 3lb allowance when pulling up on his final ride on Too Trigger Happy at Newton Abbot on July 3, 2015.
He then joined trainer Richard Hannon and is now his travelling head lad.
He then joined trainer Richard Hannon and is now his travelling head lad.