JACKDAWS CASTLE STABLES has added a new O’Neill family member to their team for the 2024/25 jumps season.

Ex-jockey Jonjo O’Neill is a legend of the racing game, 900 wins as a jockey, a two-time British Champion, and the jockey for Dawn Run – the only horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and Cheltenham Festival’s Gold Cup.

O’Neill has since become a trainer with a host of major wins to his name in that department too. Don’t Push It - a horse from his stable - won the Grand National in 2010, Synchronised won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2010, and Rhinestone Cowboy won the Aintree Hurdle in 2004, to name just a few.

O’Neill’s move into training has seen Jackdaws Castle Stables truly become a family business. Jonjo junior is now the main jockey for the stable, and the upcoming jumps season sees a new family member added to the roster.

Jonjo senior’s other son, AJ O’Neill, will join his father on the trainer’s licence.

Jonjo senior said: “The boys are a lot more into the modern technology, they are mad keen and it is great to be able to give them a hand while I am still around.

‘‘If they were not interested that would be fine but they are keen and they have new ideas. It is all about better horses and the lads have younger owners coming along.’’