Wako’s journey from stable boy to a globe-trotting horseman

Kenyan jockey Ramadhan Wako celebrates aboard Beeston after winning the Kenyatta Cup over 1,200 metres at the Ngong Racecourse on October 20, 2024.

Photo credit: Chris Omollo | Nation Media Group

We meet a few hours before his flight back to Denmark at the Ngong Racecourse, a place that feels like home to Ramadhan Wako.

Before moving to Denmark to work with horses that are almost twice the size of those he was used to in Kenya, Wako was a rising jockey in these very stables. His fortunes changed when friends already working in Denmark’s racing industry recommended him for a position abroad, opening the door to an opportunity he describes as life-changing.

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