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Cheltenham Festival Jockeys
The Cheltenham Festival features the talents of some of the world’s most talented jockeys. Every year Cheltenham Festival jockeys riding for the UK’s top stables compete for one of the meeting’s biggest honours – the Top Jockey award for most race wins:
Tony McCoy
Tony McCoy is one of the greatest jockeys in the history of national hunt racing. McCoy has won the National Hunt Champion Jockey title every year since 1995 and holds the record for most wins by a jumps jockey in a single season. Read more…
Tom Scudamore
Tom Scudamore is one of the most promising jump jockeys in Ireland. Scudamore represents the 3rd generation of Scudamore jumps jockeys, and is the son of famous jockey Peter Scudamore. The young jockey does most of his racing for the stable owned by his family, but also works with the stable of David Pipe. Read more…
Sam Thomas
Sam Thomas is an emerging star in national hunt racing, and has achieved impressive results during his career. Thomas is the second choice jockey for Paul Nicholls, after Irish jockey Ruby Walsh. Thomas is one of the most successful graduates of the British Racing School.
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Ruby Walsh
Ruby Walsh has been one of the most successful jockeys in national hunt racing during the past decade. Whilst Walsh has had to play second fiddle to Tony McCoy in England, he has been the most successful jockey in Irish racing. He made his debut in the season of 1998/1999, and has won the Irish Champion Jockey title seven times since then. Read more…
Robert Thornton
Robert Thornton is one of the highest rated English jockeys competing in national hunt racing. Nicknamed ‘Choc’ by friends, Robert Thornton has made a name for himself by putting in a series of excellent performances at the Cheltenham Festival. Read more…
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is the most successful English jockey competing in national hunt racing. Whilst Johnson has been overshadowed by the exploits of Ireland’s Tony McCoy throughout his career, he is undoubtedly one of the finest jumps jockeys in the world, and is rarely outside the top 3 in the British National Hunt Jockey Championship. Read more…
Paddy Brennan
Paddy Brennan is one of Ireland’s brightest prospects for the future. Brennan has improved steadily as a jockey since turning pro in 2005, and is rated as being amongst the finest young jockeys in national hunt racing. Brennan partners some of the strongest stables in national hunt racing and has already built an impressive record in some of the sport’s most prestigious races. Read more…
Graham Lee
Graham Lee is a successful jockey in Irish and English national hunt racing. During his career, Lee has worked with some of the top stables in national hunt racing, and is one of the few jockeys in the sport to have put pressure on Tony McCoy in the race for the Champion Jockey title. Read more…
Barry Geraghty
Barry Geraghty is one of the most highly rated jockeys competing in national hunt racing. Geraghty is a former Irish Champion Jockey, having won the title during his second year in the sport, and has also won a number of the most prestigious races in national hunt racing. Read more…
Andrew Thornton
Andrew Thornton is one of the most talented English-born jockeys competing in national hunt racing, and the brother of top jockey Robert Thornton. Unusually tall for a jockey, Andrew Thornton is forced to use an unorthodox riding style that requires him to race low in the stirrups. Thornton is excellent over the finish, and has been responsible for a number of exciting last second wins.
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| Specials - Specials Top Cheltenham Jockey [11:00] | |||||||||||
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| Walsh, R | 1/10 | ||||||||||
| McCoy, AP | 10 | ||||||||||
| Johnson, R | 14 | ||||||||||
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