(FILES) British jockey Jim Crowley rides Baaeed to win the Queen Anne stakes on the first day of the Royal Ascot horse racing meet, in Ascot, west of London on June 14, 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 Ben Stansall / AFP via Getty Images)