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The champion jockey of flat racing in Great Britain is the rider who has the most wins during a season. For most of its existence, the jockeys championship was decided on the number of winners ridden between Lincoln Handicap Day and November Handicap Day, the traditional flat turf season.
The set period has varied over time, originally covering the calendar year when all flat racing was held on turf between March and November. Later, all-weather races outside the turf season were excluded, and from 2015 the championship season was further shortened to exclude the start and end of the turf season. [3]
The 2023 British Flat Jockeys Championship was the competition to find the winningmost jockey in Great Britain between the Guineas Festival on 6 May 2023 and British Champions Day at Ascot on 21 October 2023. It was won by William Buick for the second time in a row. On the same day Billy Loughnane was crowned Champion Apprentice. [1]
The list below shows the Champion Owner for each year since 1894. Prior to 2015 the period for deciding the championship started on the day following the end of the turf Flat season and finished on the final day of the turf Flat season in the following year - for example, the 2013-14 championship ran from 10 November 2013 to 8 November 2014. [1]
The Champion Jockey of flat racing in Ireland is the jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season. The list below shows the Champion Jockey for each year since 1950. The list below shows the Champion Jockey for each year since 1950.
It was established in 2006, and the inaugural running was won by Satulagi. It was permanently renamed in 2016 to honour Pat Eddery, an 11-time British Champion flat jockeys jockey who died in 2015. [1] The Pat Eddery Stakes is held at the same meeting as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
King was invited to Japan in August 2023 to represent Australia in the annual World All-star Jockeys Championship . She finished in second place, one point behind Japanese jockey Mirai Iwata. [5] On 4 November 2023, she secured her fifth Group 1 win, riding Ozzmosis for Bjorn Baker in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne.
He also won the flat jockey of the year Lester award for the second year running. [ 32 ] Although Buick's champion jockey title came too late for Ian Balding to win on his 2006 bet that the jockey would win the championship by 2020, the Tote honoured a verbal bet the trainer had made and donated the £5,000 winnings to the Injured Jockeys' Fund.