Another glittering career has come to an end, with flat jockey legend, Mick Kinane announced his retirement from the sport that has brought him so much glory.
Kinane goes out following a season where he partnered the magnificent Sea The Stars to six Group One success's which included him becoming the first horse in history to win the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Arc de Triomphe in one season and probably ranked as his biggest achievement in his career.
It probably would be impossible to go out on the back of a better season, but Kinane has had many great seasons and has been a prolific winner of top races all over the globe.
He is one of those very few jockey's who can handle the big race atmosphere, who rarely made mistakes but most importantly knew how to judge the pace of a race, giving him the edge when going for the strike for home.
He proved this profound skill, repeatedly when riding Sea The Stars last season.
Sea The Stars' 2000 Guineas win was Kinane's fourth success in the race, winning his first one back in 1990 on Tirol.
He also won the Irish 2000 Guineas a further three times, with his first success back in 1983 on Dara Monarch.
Kinane won the Epsom Derby three times, The Arc four times, the Irish Derby twice, the English Oaks twice, Irish Oaks twice, Irish 1000 Guineas three times, plus a whole host of Group One races.
In fact Kinane won a total of 106 Group one races in Britain and Ireland alone in a career that spanned 34 years.
He is also became the only European jockey to have won a leg of the coveted American Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in 1990 on Go and Go for Dermot Weld.
Other famous international victories include the Melbourne Cup in 1993 on Vintage Crop, also for Dermot Weld.
Kinane always had racing in his blood, his father; Tommy Kinane, was a top National Hunt jockey who rode Monksfield to victory in the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 1978.
Kinane has ridden for several of the world's top trainers, including John Oxx, who of course trained Sea The Stars, Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle and Dermot Weld who was the firest to recognise Kinane's ability.
Few jockeys have had greater success in this Sport of Kings and Kinane will go down in history as one of its very best, who will always be regarded as one of the sport's top elite.