ADRIAN Heskin has announced his retirement from race-riding at the age of 32.

From Cork, he became the youngest winning rider at the Cheltenham Festival after steering Michael Hourigan’s A New Story to victory in the 2010 Glenfarclas Chase as a 17-year-old. The following month he landed the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown aboard Church Island for the same trainer.

Heskin went on to become retained rider for prominent owner Barry Connell and rode Martello Tower to win the 2015 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle for him, before later moving to Britain to take up the same position with owner Max McNeill.

Dual Grade 1 winner The Worlds End was the best horse Heskin rode for the McNeill family before that partnership ended last year.

Heskin returned to Ireland last season and rode a Grade 2 winner for Willie Mullins aboard Hauturiere at Limerick over the Christmas period, However, he only had four winners last season.

On Monday the jockey posted on social media: “After 15 years of race riding I’ve decided to call an end to my career.

“I’m very proud of my career and achieved far more than I could have imagined as a kid. I rode for the best of trainers on both sides of the Irish Sea and some fantastic owners along the way. Of course, some amazing horses too.

“My love for horses is stronger than ever and I owe everything I have to them. Here’s to the future.”