Specific Gravity winning at Dundalk last week.© Photo Healy Racing
National pony racing champion rider Rossa Ryan makes his racecourse debut at Dundalk on Friday night where the sixteen year old rides Specific Gravity in the Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey & Trainer Championship Apprentice Handicap.
Ryan, a nephew of jockey Tom Ryan and cousin of English based jockey John Fahy has ridden 160 winners in ‘flapping’ races and was national pony racing champion in 2016.
Ryan, from Currafin, Co Galway is still in school in St Jarlath’s College, Tuam but is apprenticed to his father and trainer David Ryan and Garry Cribbin is acting as the teenager’s agent.
