If Danny Tudhope can maintain his current strike-rate, it is only a matter of time before he replaces Oisin Murphy as favourite
Silvestre de Sousa has been Britain’s champion jockey on the Flat in three of the last four seasons, but he has drifted from 11-2 to 12-1 to retain the crown in the space of seven days as Oisin Murphy and, above all, Danny Tudhope have maintained a relentless pace in their pursuit of a first title. The three-runner championship race of early July is now, barring unforeseen accidents, very much down to two.
Murphy, who was a narrow favourite ahead of de Sousa at the start of the campaign in May, still heads the market on 4-6, but Tudhope, who has quietly built a five-winner lead at 71-66 before Thursday’s racing is now the rider he needs to worry about. Having been a 25-1 shot as recently as 25 June, Tudhope is now a 6-4 chance and if he can maintain his current strike-rate, it is only a matter of time before he replaces Murphy as the title favourite.
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