Jessica Maye

[Jessica Maye @JessicaMaye98]

Over the moon to ride my first winner today in my mams colours!! 😁

[Pat Healy @patcashhealy]

@corkracecourse 8-Aug-2020
Congratulations to Jessica Maye riding 1st winner aboard "Lady Boomerang" for owner Sandra Maye and trainer John Geoghegan.
(c)https://t.co/voWGTccgic

[Horse Racing Ireland @HRIRacing]

Signing a few autographs before the winning interview!

Well done to Jessica Maye, the apprentice off the mark for the year after landing the feature 👏 @corkracecourse

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Jockey Jessica Maye rides her first winner for trainer Johnny Murtagh @corkracecourse

[Vanessa Maye @vanessamayeee]

Shaun you were so loved and will be missed dearly by us all🕊️❤️

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Maye blossoms with first success for McConnell https://t.co/PgvjDNKuJQ

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Hasiyna and @JessicaMaye98 @DundalkStadium

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Great Mover

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A delighted Jessica Maye, with groom Annie O'Rourke, after winning the Limerick finale aboard Party Dress on Wednesday

📸 : Healy Racing

[Henry de Bromhead @HenrydeBromhead]

The end of an era 🥺

Thank you @rachaelblackmor, for everything ❤️

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Megan Telford-Kelly returns after riding her first winner on Mogwli @GowranPark1

[Al Shira’aa Racing Ltd @alshiraaracing]

Lovely morning at Rathbride Stables to see the fillies train. #Vespertilio🦇

[BIRDIE @DarrenBirdie]

Never forget the roar Michael, because it will forever be yours and ours to remember.

[Pat Healy @patcashhealy]

Sunday morning and I draw the curtains. Jesus what a horrible sight ! Its grey dark and the sky looks to be on the ground. The scene mirrors the way I feel after yesterday evenings result in the football with The Dubs beating us in our own backyard by a point. I have to face them at Punchestown today, putting on a smiley face and let their banter roll off me. Oh the thoughts of it ! Problem is I’m used to it now sure they have us where they want us for the past decade and a half.
Pick up the phone check whats happening in the world, is Trump giving us a laugh today ?
Wallop ! Noooo ! Aw Holy God ! Like a heavy weight boxers punch into the stomach The IHRB let us know that Mikey has left us. Punchestown and The Point To Points called off. Be no trace of any Dubs today ! Oh how I’m wishing now that there was, that way wouldn’t Mikey still be with us.

Tramore New Years Day 47 nights ago. Mikey steers Embassy Gardens home to win the feature event on the card for trainer Willie Mullins. I photograph him and his mount in a happy kinda celebration shot on the track before they head for the winners enclosure. “Well done Mikey boy, good on you kid” “Thanks Pat, I needed that” the relief washing over him. “Mikey, this game is about the long road, stay on the road” I tell him. “Don’t worry Pat when I get my chance I will turn it into a motorway” he says and a big hearty laugh out of him !!

I know Mikey, not well but I know him. Sure we are both part of the same community. The racing community. We move from town to town like a circus. Same clowns different towns. As I get older I appreciate the younger generations. They make me smile and I learn from them. Little life lessons like new slang words, phone and computer shortcuts, that type of stuff. Sure they know it all !
Mikey is a step above the youngest generation I interact with. There is a group of 16-17 year olds riding. Mikey is 24. I love capturing their 1st success on the track and then watching them achieve their goals and dreams. Cheltenham is every jump jockey’s dream and in March 2023 we saw Mikey grab his dream twice in the one day. Glorious,Great and Gracious, Mikey stole the show in the biggest circus.If you hadn’t seen the results you wouldn’t have known it. His cap still fitted his head, his walk didn’t alter and his tongue didn’t let him down. Pure humble hi.

The last few days everything I have read and heard spoken about him is true. It makes me wish I knew him better. Makes me wish I spent time in his company socially. Makes me wish……

Mikey you are a credit to your family and friends.

May God speed you on that motorway and wrap his loving arms around you X

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

.@R_Forristal:

"Michael was an inherently decent guy, a well-mannered, witty and deeply intelligent person who distinguished himself with a university degree and spoke French fluently on his riding excursions there.

"He enjoyed all manner of sports and was someone who exhibited all of the humility imbued in him by his family, down-to-earth people who are the embodiment of the grassroots point-to-point fraternity. His father William and mother Bernie are dairy farmers first, and Michael was of the earth too.

"The grim reality of the risks jockeys live with on a daily basis does not make such a dire outcome any easier to reconcile and will be absolutely no consolation to his family.

"To them, we send nothing but love, and to Michael in his eternal resting place we send forth our gratitude for him being the man he was. May he rest in peace."

[Irish Examiner Sport @ExaminerSport]

Ruby Walsh: This sport can give so much, but it isn’t always kind https://t.co/5Q3cSDKlfj

[Fred Larson @FredLar52910179]

Delighted to ride out my claim tonight. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me throughout. Onwards and upwards.

[Bellewstown Races @BellewstownRace]

MOGWLI provides @JessicaMaye98 with her third career success in the @BoyleSports Supporting Irish Racing Handicap (Div 2) for Willie McCreery.

#SeeYouOnTheHill

[Leopardstown RC @LeopardstownRC]

Irish Champions Festival 🤝 Willie McCreery

Leopardstown and The Curragh officially launched Irish Champions Festival on Wednesday morning in Willie McCreery's yard in Rathbride Co.Kildare 🏇🏼

#itallcomesdowntothis

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Matron Stakes hope Jancis cools down in Willie McCreery's yard.

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Willie McCreery’s string on the gallops this morning

Including Matron Stakes contenders Vespertilio (14) & Jancis (12)

[Jessica Maye @JessicaMaye98]

One of the best , pure gentleman ❤️

[Grove Stud @grovestud]

A good man left us today , and is gone straight to heaven...a consumate professional and as nice a person as you could wish to meet...from all your friends past and present @grovestud Rest in Peace Valdi....Heartbroken