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JOCKEY · 191st BY BIG-RACE WINS

Don MacBeth

34 wins in the world's richest races between 1971 and 1986, across 22 different races. The biggest is the Japan Cup, worth £5,493,600.

Rolls of honour are kept race by race, so a rider's big-race record only exists once every one of them on this site has been read and turned sideways.

BIG-RACE WINS 34
BIGGEST WIN £5.5m
RACES WON 22
FIRST AND LAST 1971 to 1986
COUNTRIES 2

When the wins came

34 wins from 1971 to 1986, in 2-year spells

Best spell: 1984-85, 13 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Don MacBeth took 13 of these 34 in 1984-85 alone.

The races Don MacBeth keeps winning

By number of wins

3 won more than once

Lamplighter Stakes 4 Cotillion Handicap 2 Hopeful Stakes 2 Japan Cup 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile 1 Blue Grass Stakes 1 Metropolitan Handicap 1 Whitney Stakes 1 Churchill Downs Stakes 1 Belmont Derby 1 Personal Ensign Stakes 1 Frizette Stakes 1

Every big race Don MacBeth has won

34 winners, newest first

22 different races

Year Race Horse Trainer Country Worth
1986 Hutcheson Stakes Papal Power Charles Peoples United States £56,391
1985 Belmont Derby Don's Choice Marvin L. Moncrief United States £563,910
1985 Blue Grass Stakes Chief's Crown Roger Laurin United States £939,850
1985 Hopeful Stakes Papal Power Charles Peoples United States £225,564
1985 Metropolitan Handicap Forzando John Sullivan United States £751,880
1985 Spinaway Stakes Family Style D. Wayne Lukas United States £225,564
1984 Albany Stakes Flying Skipper Chester Ross United States £187,970
1984 American Pharoah Stakes Chief's Crown Roger Laurin United States £225,564
1984 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Chief's Crown Roger Laurin United States £1,503,759£1.5m
1984 Frizette Stakes Charleston Rag Del W. Carroll II United States £300,752
1984 Gotham Stakes Bear Hunt Roger Laurin United States £225,564
1984 Hopeful Stakes Chief's Crown Roger Laurin United States £225,564
1984 Jerome Stakes Is Your Pleasure Edward I. Kelly Sr. United States £112,782
1984 Peter Pan Stakes Back Bay Barrister Vincent Blengs United States £150,376
1982 Japan Cup Half Iced Stanley M. Hough Japan £5,493,600£5.5m
1982 Whitney Stakes Silver Buck J. Elliott Burch United States £751,880
1981 Personal Ensign Stakes Tina Tina Too Richard T. DeStasio United States £375,940
1980 Chick Lang Stakes Amber Pass Sonny Hine United States £112,782
1980 Dwyer Stakes Amber Pass Hubert Hine United States £150,376
1980 Forerunner Stakes Lord Gallant Lou M. Goldfine United States £75,188
1979 Lamplighter Stakes Quiet Crossing Doug Peterson United States £45,113
1978 Cotillion Handicap Queen Lib Harry Wells United States £751,880
1978 Lamplighter Stakes North Course Charles Sanborn United States £45,113
1977 Lamplighter Stakes Qui Native Charles Sanborn United States £45,113
1974 Lamplighter Stakes Key to the Gun J. Bowes Bond United States £45,113
1973 Cotillion Handicap Lilac Hill Tom Harraway United States £751,880
1971 Churchill Downs Stakes No No Billy Stanley M. Rieser United States £751,880

The figure on each row is what that race puts up today, which is the number that says how big a day it was. The prize itself goes to the owner and the jockey takes a percentage of it, set by the rules of the country the race is run in.

Where Don MacBeth wins

2 countries

Country Wins Share Biggest race won there
United States 26 76% Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Japan 1 3% Japan Cup

The riders either side

Ranked 191st of 216 on big-race wins

# Jockey Wins Races Span Biggest win
181 Tom Marquand 36 32 2018 to 2026 £751,880
182 Carl Llewellyn 36 25 1988 to 2006 £250,000
183 Garrett Gomez 35 29 1994 to 2012 £5,263,158£5.3m
184 Geoff Lewis 35 26 1960 to 1977 £4,273,504£4.3m
185 Alex O. Solis 35 20 1985 to 2015 £1,127,820£1.1m
186 Norman Williamson 35 29 1990 to 2003 £646,880
187 Aurelien Lemaitre 35 31 2015 to 2026 £854,701
188 Noel Fehily 35 29 2004 to 2019 £450,000
189 Bauyrzhan Murzabayev 35 27 2017 to 2026 £555,556
190 Kerrin McEvoy 34 25 2000 to 2022 £10,582,011£10.6m
192 Andrea Atzeni 34 32 2012 to 2023 £4,511,278£4.5m
193 Christy Roche 34 18 1972 to 1998 £1,500,000£1.5m
194 Pat Taaffe 34 15 1953 to 1970 £1,000,000£1.0m
195 Noel Harris 34 17 1972 to 2014 £581,400
196 Ismael Valenzuela 33 22 1956 to 1974 £3,759,399£3.8m
197 Shaun Bridgmohan 33 31 1999 to 2019 £1,503,759£1.5m
198 Davy Russell 33 20 2004 to 2020 £1,000,000£1.0m
199 Jamie Osborne 33 23 1989 to 1998 £400,000
200 Adrian Maguire 33 27 1991 to 2001 £646,880
201 Vincent Cheminaud 32 29 2013 to 2021 £1,282,051£1.3m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Don MacBeth won?

34, across 22 different races between 1971 and 1986. That is 191st of the 216 jockeys on this site.

What is the biggest race Don MacBeth has won?

the Japan Cup, worth £5,493,600 and run in Japan. Don MacBeth won it in 1982.

Which race has Don MacBeth won most often?

the Lamplighter Stakes, 4 times at Monmouth Park Racetrack. 3 of these races have gone to Don MacBeth more than once.

How much prize money has Don MacBeth won?

The prize goes to the owner, and the jockey takes a percentage of it set by the rules of the country the race is run in. What this page holds is the races themselves: 34 wins, the biggest of them worth £5,493,600.

When did Don MacBeth win these races?

Between 1971 and 1986. The busiest spell was 1984-85, with 13 of them.

Where to next

The races Don MacBeth has won, and the riders around them

The races Don MacBeth has won

The riders either side

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