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JOCKEY · 173rd BY BIG-RACE WINS

Doug Smith

38 wins in the world's richest races between 1941 and 1966, across 18 different races. The biggest is the St James's Palace Stakes, worth £650,000.

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 38
BIGGEST WIN £650k
RACES WON 18
FIRST AND LAST 1941 to 1966
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

38 wins from 1941 to 1966, in 3-year spells

Best spell: 1947-49, 8 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Doug Smith took 8 of these 38 in 1947-49 alone.

The races Doug Smith keeps winning

By number of wins

15 won more than once

St James's Palace Stakes 4 Queen's Vase 3 Craven Stakes 3 Greenham Stakes 3 2000 Guineas Stakes 2 King Edward VII Stakes 2 Gordon Stakes 2 Hampton Court Stakes 2 Chester Vase 2 Jersey Stakes 2 King George V Stakes 2 Dee Stakes 2

Every big race Doug Smith has won

38 winners, newest first

18 different races

Year Race Horse Trainer Country Worth
1966 Sandown Classic Trial Mehari John Winter Great Britain £85,000
1965 Dee Stakes Look Sharp Bernard van Cutsem Great Britain £100,000
1963 Craven Stakes Crocket Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £85,000
1963 St James's Palace Stakes Crocket Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £650,000
1962 Jersey Stakes Catchpole Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £110,000
1961 Greenham Stakes Primus Gordon Richards Great Britain £55,000
1961 St James's Palace Stakes Tudor Treasure Jack Watts Great Britain £650,000
1960 Lingfield Derby Trial Jet Stream Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Great Britain £60,000
1959 Gordon Stakes Above Suspicion Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Great Britain £200,000
1959 Greenham Stakes Masham Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £55,000
1958 2000 Guineas Stakes Pall Mall Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Great Britain £525,000
1956 Esher Cup Almoner Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £45,000
1956 Hampton Court Stakes Le Pretendant Walter Nightingall Great Britain £150,000
1956 St James's Palace Stakes Pirate King Humphrey Cottrill Great Britain £650,000
1955 2000 Guineas Stakes Our Babu Geoffrey Brooke Great Britain £525,000
1955 Great Voltigeur Stakes Acropolis George Colling Great Britain £250,000
1955 King George V Stakes Jardiniere Noel Murless Great Britain £110,000
1955 Newmarket Stakes Acropolis George Colling Great Britain £55,000
1954 Lingfield Derby Trial Rowston Manor Harry Peacock Great Britain £60,000
1953 European Free Handicap Good Brandy Harry Peacock Great Britain £35,000
1953 Gordon Stakes Prince Canarina Harvey Leader Great Britain £200,000
1952 King Edward VII Stakes Castleton Tommy Carey Great Britain £250,500
1951 Hampton Court Stakes Mossborough George Colling Great Britain £150,000
1950 Chester Vase Castle Rock Jack Jarvis Great Britain £140,000
1950 Dee Stakes Khorassan Marcus Marsh Great Britain £100,000
1949 Chester Vase Swallow Tail Walter Earl Great Britain £140,000
1949 Craven Stakes Moondust Frank Butters Great Britain £85,000
1949 Greenham Stakes Star King Jack Waugh Great Britain £55,000
1949 Jersey Stakes Star King John Waugh Great Britain £110,000
1949 King Edward VII Stakes Swallow Tail Walter Earl Great Britain £250,500
1949 Queen's Vase Lone Eagle Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Great Britain £262,500
1947 Craven Stakes Migoli Frank Butters Great Britain £85,000
1947 Queen's Vase Auralia Reg Day Great Britain £262,500
1946 King George V Stakes Auralia Reg Day Great Britain £110,000
1946 Queen's Vase Look Ahead Cecil Boyd-Rochfort Great Britain £262,500
1941 European Free Handicap Orthodox Noel Cannon Great Britain £35,000
1941 Newmarket Stakes Orthodox Noel Cannon Great Britain £55,000
1941 St James's Palace Stakes Orthodox 2 Noel Cannon Great Britain £650,000

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.

The riders either side

Ranked 173rd of 216 on big-race wins

# Jockey Wins Races Span Biggest win
163 Jean Cruguet 39 31 1969 to 1990 £3,759,399£3.8m
164 Bobby Ussery 39 25 1957 to 1974 £3,759,399£3.8m
165 Cornelio Velásquez 39 33 1992 to 2014 £1,503,759£1.5m
166 Rene Piechulek 39 27 2015 to 2026 £4,273,504£4.3m
167 Harry Carr 39 17 1948 to 1963 £1,500,000£1.5m
168 Robin Platts 39 15 1970 to 1997 £536,800
169 Julien R. Leparoux 38 24 2006 to 2020 £1,315,789£1.3m
170 Rajiv Maragh 38 34 2008 to 2019 £939,850
171 Ruben Hernandez 38 33 1976 to 1997 £1,503,759£1.5m
172 Robbie Davis 38 32 1984 to 2000 £751,880
174 Mick Fitzgerald 38 29 1994 to 2008 £646,880
175 Robert Thornton 38 27 1997 to 2014 £450,000
176 Kevin Woodburn 38 26 1986 to 2001 £555,556
177 Brian Hernandez Jr. 37 31 2006 to 2026 £5,263,158£5.3m
178 Ron Turcotte 37 31 1962 to 1977 £3,759,399£3.8m
179 Eurico Rosa da Silva 37 19 2007 to 2019 £536,800
180 Kevin Manning 36 18 1988 to 2021 £3,800,000£3.8m
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

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Doug Smith won?

38, across 18 different races between 1941 and 1966. That is 173rd of the 216 jockeys on this site.

What is the biggest race Doug Smith has won?

the St James's Palace Stakes, worth £650,000 and run in Great Britain. Doug Smith won it in 1963, 1961, 1956, 1941.

Which race has Doug Smith won most often?

the St James's Palace Stakes, 4 times at Ascot Racecourse. 15 of these races have gone to Doug Smith more than once.

How much prize money has Doug Smith 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: 38 wins, the biggest of them worth £650,000.

When did Doug Smith win these races?

Between 1941 and 1966. The busiest spell was 1947-49, with 8 of them.

Where to next

The races Doug Smith has won, and the riders around them

The races Doug Smith has won

The riders either side

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