During the season, he rode out his apprentice claim on 1 July 2021, winning on the Hugo Palmer-trained Surprise Picture.
[2] His most successful partnership was with the Saeed Bin Suroor trained Real World, on whom he got his first Royal Ascot win in the Royal Hunt Cup, before following up in the Listed Steventon Stakes and Group 3 Strensall Stakes.
[3] He won fewer races in 2022, ending the season with 64, but among them were the Listed Premio d'Italia Tattersalls on Cime Tempestose and Queen Charlotte Fillies' Stakes on Soft Whisper, again for Saeed Bin Suroor.
His career as "a rising star of the weighing room"[4] was not helped by a positive cocaine test following a race at Newcastle on 25 August.
[3] Ghiani spoke of his hope of winning his first Group 1 on him in the Haydock Sprint Cup, but in the end, though disputing the lead briefly, he finished sixth.