Drained Hanagan Highest Riding ; but New Champion Admits to 'Absolutely Horrendous' Week

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AFTER leading the championship race from start to finish a delighted Paul Hanagan was lifted high by his weighing room colleagues as he took the Flat jockey's title at Doncaster on Saturday.

Hanagan reached a career high after fighting off the determined challenge of rival Richard Hughes to become only the third northern- based rider to become champion in the past 105 years.

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Drained Hanagan Highest Riding ; but New Champion Admits to 'Absolutely Horrendous' Week

Kevin Darley, in 2000, had previously been the only rider from the north since Elijah Wheatley in 1905 to break the southern-based monopoly in the title race.

But now the Warrington-born jockey, like Darley a winner of the apprentice title as...

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