Jockeys

Champion Jockeys: National Hunt

The first three years (1960–2)		Stan Mellor
Three times (1965, 1966, 1969)		Terry Biddlecombe
Seven times, 1976–85 (shared with Scudamore in 1983)		John Francome
Seven consecutive times, 1986–92 (also shared with Francome in 1983)		Peter Scudamore
Three times, 1993–5		Richard Dunwoody
20 consecutive times, from 1996 until his retirement in 2015		A. P. (Tony) McCoy
Champion jockey in four consecutive years, 2016–19, after finishing as runner–up to McCoy 16 times		Richard Johnson
Champion jockey in 2020		Brian Hughes

Champion Jockeys: Flat

13 times, 1840–52		Nat Flatman
13 times, 1874–86		Fred Archer
26 times in 29 years, 1925–53 (25 times in 27 years, 1927–53); knighted 1953		Gordon Richards
11 times: 1960, 1964–71, 1981–2		Lester Piggott
1961–3		Scobie Breasley
Five times, 1972–83		Willie Carson
11 times, 1974–96		Pat Eddery
Three times: 1984, 1985, 1987 (US–born)		Steve Cauthen
Three times: 1994, 1995, 2004		Frankie Dettori
Six times, 1997–2003		Kieron Fallon
Interrupted Fallon's run (2000)		Kevin Darley
Three times: 2006, 2008, 2009		Ryan Moore
2012–14 (also three times)		Richard Hughes
2015, 2017, 2018 (Brazilian)		Silvestre de Sousa
2016 (Ascot born)		Jim Crowley
2019, 2020, 2021 (banned in 2022 for disciplinary offences)		Oisin Murphy

Other

Three–times champion jockey, 1965–9: trained John Hurt for his role as Bob Champion in the 1983 biopic Champions		Terry Biddlecombe
Finest hour (BBC website) was winning The Oaks on the Queen's horse Dunfermline in Silver Jubilee year (1977); also won the St. Leger that year on the same horse		Willie Carson
First jockey to win the Kentucky Derby (1978) and the Epsom Derby (1985, 1987)		Steve Cauthen
Won the Derby on Authorized (2007) and Golden Horn (2015)		Frankie Dettori
Rode all seven winners at Ascot, on 28 September 1996
Won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe a record fifth and sixth time in 2017 and 2018
Champion National Hunt (jump) jockey 1953–4; jockey to the Queen Mother, 1953–7; rode her horse Devon Loch, which collapsed in the 1956 Grand National; after retirement, became a best–selling author (of books on a racing theme)		Dick Francis
First jockey to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year (2010); first National Hunt jockey to ride over 2,000 winners; retired in 2015 after riding a total of 4,358 winners; knighted in the 2016 New Year honours list		A. P. (Tony) McCoy
First National Hunt jockey to ride 1,000 winners		Stan Mellor
US jockey, rode 8,833 winners 1949–90		Bill Shoemaker
US jockey, 1890s – popularised the "forward seat" style of riding, known in Britain as the "monkey crouch"; name became rhyming slang for 'alone' (or 'on one's own')		Tod Sloan
Rode Shergar to victory in the Derby, 1981 (also Llammtara in 1995)		Walter Swinburn
Rode Arkle to victory in three Cheltenham Gold Cups, 1964–6		Pat Taafe
The only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National as both jockey and trainer		Fred Winter

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