(FILES) Jockey Jim Crowley reacts to his win on Hukum as they return to the winner's enclosure after victory in the Coronation Cup on the first day of the Epsom Derby Festival horse racing event at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Epsom, south of England, on June 3, 2022. Jim Crowley, the 2016 British champion jockey who had switched from jumps to the flat, took the "hardest decision" of his life on July 31, 2026, and retired. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP via Getty Images)