By AAP
Three-time British champion jockey Richard Hughes failed to sign off his stellar riding career with a fairytale victory in his final Group One engagement, the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday.
The 42-year-old Irishman, a former alcoholic, finished unplaced on the John Gosden-trained Bright Approach.
Hughes, who is also due to quit smoking at the end of the meeting on Saturday honouring a pledge to his trainer father Dessie when he was dying late last year, is due to switch to training having taken a lease out on a stables in Stockbridge, Hampshire, England.
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