Frost announces retirement British jockey Jimmy Frost hung up his riding boots on a winning note after Bohill Lad landed the Exeter Racecourse Conference Centre Handicap Hurdle at Exeter today.On returning to unsaddle Frost, 43, hurled his skull cap into the crowd and declared: 'That`s it! I`m going out on a winning note at one of my local tracks which is brilliant.'Frost`s major victories came aboard Little Polveir in the 1989 Grand National and Morley Street, who lifted the Champion Hurdle in 1991. He partnered over 500 winners in his riding career.He said: 'Every story has to come to an end and I thought I might just go and do it at Newton Abbot next week. But you`ve got to make a decision and I had the perfect ride to win the race and I decided to go as I`d been thinking about it for the last five years.'I got a great reception from the crowd which is fantastic and this horse was also my 500th winner so he`s been very good to me as now he`s also my first winner as a trainer, as I took over my father Richard`s licence at the beginning of this month.'Frost was presented with a bottle of champagne by the course executive to mark his retirement and was joined by weighing room colleagues including Tony McCoy, Richard Johnson, Andrew Thornton, Dean Gallagher, Jimmy McCarthy and Tom Scudamore at the presentation.
