Champion jockey Ryan Moore celebrated his first Derby victory on Saturday -- and treated Epsom to a rare show of emotion, reports the Mail on Sunday UK.It says: Moore is so focused on his trade that he usually prefers to let the horses he rides do the talking. Not on Saturday. The scale of his achievement after a command performance on 6-1 shot Workforce had clearly got to him as he opened his heart with disarming candour.He said: 'This is a very special day for me and it was made even more spec

Champion jockey Ryan Moore celebrated his first Derby victory on Saturday -- and treated Epsom to a rare show of emotion, reports the Mail on Sunday UK.

It says: Moore is so focused on his trade that he usually prefers to let the horses he rides do the talking. Not on Saturday. The scale of his achievement after a command performance on 6-1 shot Workforce had clearly got to him as he opened his heart with disarming candour.

He said: 'This is a very special day for me and it was made even more special by having my family here. I'll remember it for a long time.'

Moore's victory -- in a record time -- was witnessed by his father, trainer Gary Moore, and came just 24 hours after he opened his Classic account with victory in The Oaks on Snow Fairy.

'Winning The Oaks was wonderful but this is something else,' he said. 'When I was a lad, the Grand National was the race I wanted to win above everything else because it is unique. But since I became a Flat jockey, the Derby has always been the target and this is a dream come true. I want to win every race that I ride in, but the Derby is regarded as the greatest Flat race in the world and now I have done it. I knew that in Workforce I had a horse who could realise that dream. My horse got a bump at the top of the hill and I had to take my time. But he travelled smoothly and when the gap opened up for me he quickened up and showed terrific acceleration. For a big horse on fast ground and on a track that doesn't suit him, it was a great performance.'

In his teens, Moore expected to be a jump jockey like his father and brother Jamie. His first success duly came over hurdles as an amateur at Towcester 10 years ago at 16.

But the lure of the Flat proved irresistible once he managed to shed excess weight and he became champion jockey for the first time in 2006. On Saturday, he put in a superlative performance on Workforce, who sped home seven lengths clear in a track record time of 2min 31.33sec from 100-1 shot At First Sight, who had led virtually from the start, with Frankie Dettori third on Rewilding.