Oisin Murphy collects award for top jockey and rides four winners at Windsor

Windsor's top jockey Oisin Murphy receives a souvenir painting from Charlie Rees. Picture: Helen Edwards

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Oisin Murphy rode four winners at Windsor on an evening when he received a memento for being the top jockey at the course last year, writes Dave Wright.

Clerk of the course Charlie Rees presented the jockey with a painting by equine artist Elizabeth Armstrong, which featured most of his Windsor winners from 2024.

One of his victories on Monday came in the Fitzdares Sprint Series Handicap qualifier aboard Regal Envoy (9/2), who had also won the May

19 qualifier.

William Knight's six-year-old sprinter came home by three-quarters of a length from the Jack Channon-trained Miss Attitude, who holds an entry for the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot on Saturday, June 21.

Murphy had earlier won the Heat Your Home With Alpha Novice Stakes aboard Nahraan, trained by John & Thady Gosden, who are becoming regular winners at Windsor this season.

The unbackable 2/15 favourite bolted home by four lengths ahead of Andrew Balding's Jupiter Ammon.

Murphy then rode Balding's Christmas Gift (6/4 fav) to victory in the second division of the Hunter Plant Hire - MC International Haulage Novice Stakes.

The Irishman in red-hot form was back in the winner's enclosure again following Boy George's (2/1 joint-favourite) success in the Network Aviation Group's 40th Anniversary Handicap.

The seven-year-old trained by Lambourn's Dominic Ffrench Davis had won at the track last August.

"He has now won eight races; he's a smashing little horse, said the trainer who revealed he got permission from Boy George to name him after the singer Division Two of the Novice Stakes went the way of 11/8 favourite Accentuate, with Ray Dawson riding for Roger Varian, while 14/1 chance Stardrop won the O'Malley Haulage Handicap with Sean D Bowen riding for James Owen.