‘I’m bored when I’m not riding’: Billy Loughnane on drive that made him champion jockey at 20

Flat racing’s youngest champion jockey in more than a century on his relentless – and rapid – journey to the top Billy Loughnane’s mum wanted him to be a vet. “You’d have to ask her why,” he says with a smile that is rarely more than a second or two away. “I’d say money and an easier lifestyle, but I always wanted to be a jockey and made it very clear that was what I wanted to be doing. My…