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Melissa Jones

Tributes paid to jockey and Cheltenham winner who died aged 44 after brave cancer battle

Tributes have been paid to a much-loved jockey and former soldier who tragically lost his fight against cancer.

Ben Moore competed in the conditional ranks before he joined the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery in 1999.

The rider, who was 44, started his racing career with 15-time champion trainer Martin Pipe in Somerset. In the years that followed, Moore, who was a staff sergeant with the Army's ceremonial unit until 2022, returned to the sport for amateur races.

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