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Silvestre De Sousa was born on 31st December 1980, within São Francisco do Maranhão in Brazil. He’s a widely feted Brazilian jockey who lives in the United Kingdom. Silvestre De Sousa has had much success in racing despite it being a belated career choice. The influential jockey didn’t sit on a horse until the age of 17. Although he joined the racing world as a young adult, he surpassed the achievements of many long-trained contemporaries.

As a young rider, the trailblazer spent a perid of time as an apprentice at Cidade Jardim horse training sporting facility. It is here that Fausto Dursohelped De Sousa to his present racing glory. Initially, it only took Durso’s casual remark that the would-be protege had an excellent build for a jockey, to spur him on.

According to details from his tutelage days, De Sousa has been quoted as saying that his initial training as a jockey was riddled with numerous and significant challenges. For example, it took the champion about six months to achieve the milestone of a successful maiden ride. Nonetheless, all this admirable determination would soon pay off a little over a year later.

Ever since that breakthrough, De Sousa has gone frrom strength to strength, and is talked of in many quarters as among the century’s most exemplary horse handlers and jockeys. The South American racetrack luminary has ridden well over 160 winners so far. While not as award-decorated as some other established predecessors and contemporaries, De Sousa has cemented a lasting imprint in the annals of racing history as one of the seasoned riders the world has ever seen.

Virtually any keen racing enthusiast will know of Kieren Francis Fallon and his auspicious achievements in the horse racing world. Born on 22nd February 1965 in Crusheen – Ireland, the retired flat racing supremo is an unmistakable memory etched in the annals of horse racing history. A British Champion Jockey on six occasions, very few names in the racing world can outstrip that of Kieren Fallon.

Kieren Fallon apprenticed himself to a renowned stable jockey called Henry Cecil – one of the foremost British trainers at the time. Riding his trainer’s horse Sleepytime, Fallon attained a classic victory taking the 1000 Guineas in 1997, thus launching a triumphant foray into the highly competitive racing arena.

After the spectacular 1997 classic triumph, Kieren Fallon retained the Jockey’s Championship for two consecutive years. In each of these prosperous years, he rode well over hundred times. Indeed, and as Henry Cecil had previously said of him, Fallon was a winner at heart before he even set foot on the race course.

Steadily building success upon success, Kieren Fallon won his first Derby title riding the Cecil trained Oath, before later clinching going for a repeat at the Oaks on Ramruma – also belong to the apparently fortunate Henry Cecil stable. Eventually Fallon left Cecil parted ways, with rumours of a fallout, that sports publications failed to ever get to the bottom of.