EIGHT-TIME champion point-to-point jockey Will Biddick has retired with immediate effect – saying: “I’ve lost the buzz.”
Biddick, who has won over the Grand National fences, confided with his wife Harriet over his decision.
He said, after 705 wins, that the time was right to hang up his saddle once and for all.
Biddick, 39, won the prestigious Foxhunters’ Chase aboard 9-2 Famous Clermont at the 2023 Grand National Festival.
He had success at Cheltenham Festival too, training Porlock Bay to victory in the St James’s Place Chase in 2021 and riding 33-1 outsider Something Wells to success in the 2009 Plate.
Explaining his decision, Biddick told the Racing Post: “I’ve lost the buzz.
“I’m not broken and the sport has been great to me, but I had a word with my wife, Harriet, at Christmas and decided it was time.
“I have had some amazing times and met wonderful life-long friends.”
Biddick, who has been banging in winners for 23 years, said he has no desire to be a trainer.
He is part of the team behind Paul Nicholls’ current Turners Novices’ Hurdle and Albert Bartlett favourite No Drama This End.
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But he will leave the training to others while he focuses on his home life.
Biddick added: “There’s no way I want to be a trainer.
“Travelling around the country just doesn’t appeal and I am married with two young boys.”
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