Tylicki crowned top apprentice

Frederik Tylicki has won this year's apprentice jockeys' championship.

Probert's suspension confirms destiny of title

Frederik Tylicki has won this year's apprentice jockeys' championship. Tylicki cannot be caught by last season's joint-winner David Probert, who is suspended on the final day of the campaign on Saturday. Although Probert won the penultimate race at Wolverhampton's Friday night meeting aboard Calculating - taking his tally up to 67 - Tylicki arrives at Doncaster on Saturday with an unassailable one-win advantage. The German-born pilot is retained by North Yorkshire handler Richard Fahey, for whom he has claimed over 30 races this season. Tylicki began his racing tutelage in Ireland, under the expert guidance of Dermot Weld and Jim Bolger, and won his first race in Britain at Beverley aboard Kings College Boy in June 2008. Last year he also landed the John Smith's Cup at York with Flying Clarets. With Probert banned, Tylicki heads to Doncaster with a book of four rides and no pressure upon his young shoulders. This season's apprentice jockeys' title was named in honour of Jan Wilson and Jamie Kyne, the two riders who were killed in September's Malton fire disaster.