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JOCKEY · 202nd BY BIG-RACE WINS

John Francome

32 wins in the world's richest races between 1975 and 1985, across 21 different races. The biggest is the Cheltenham Gold Cup, worth £646,880.

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 32
BIGGEST WIN £647k
RACES WON 21
FIRST AND LAST 1975 to 1985
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

32 wins from 1975 to 1985, in years

Best spell: 1984, 6 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: John Francome took 6 of these 32 in 1984 alone.

The races John Francome keeps winning

By number of wins

10 won more than once

Persian War Novices' Hurdle 3 Coral Gold Cup 2 King George VI Chase 2 Broadway Novices' Chase 2 Tingle Creek Chase 2 Welsh Grand National 2 Christmas Hurdle 2 Long Walk Hurdle 2 Henry VIII Novices' Chase 2 Cathcart Challenge Cup 2 Cheltenham Gold Cup 1 Champion Hurdle 1

Every big race John Francome has won

32 winners, newest first

21 different races

Year Race Horse Trainer Country Worth
1985 Aintree Bowl Wayward Lad Monica Dickinson Great Britain £250,000
1984 Coral Gold Cup Burrough Hill Lad Jenny Pitman Great Britain £250,000
1984 King George VI Chase Burrough Hill Lad Jenny Pitman Great Britain £250,000
1984 Persian War Novices' Hurdle Brown Trix Fred Winter Great Britain £75,000
1984 Pertemps Final Canio Ron Hodges Great Britain £100,000
1984 Prestbury Juvenile Hurdle Barnbrook Again Stan Mellor Great Britain £80,000
1984 Red Rum Handicap Chase Little Bay Gordon W. Richards Great Britain £100,000
1983 Cathcart Challenge Cup Observe Fred Winter Great Britain £80,000
1983 Coral Gold Cup Brown Chamberlin Fred Winter Great Britain £250,000
1983 Welsh Grand National Burrough Hill Lad Jenny Pitman Great Britain £170,000
1982 Broadway Novices' Chase Brown Chamberlin Fred Winter Great Britain £200,000
1982 December Gold Cup Observe Fred Winter Great Britain £125,000
1982 King George VI Chase Wayward Lad Michael Dickinson Great Britain £250,000
1982 Tingle Creek Chase News King Fred Winter Great Britain £175,000
1981 Champion Hurdle Sea Pigeon Peter Easterby Great Britain £450,000
1981 Henry VIII Novices' Chase Fifty Dollars More Fred Winter Great Britain £100,000
1981 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase Friendly Alliance Fred Winter Great Britain £150,000
1981 Stayers' Hurdle Derring Rose Fred Winter Great Britain £325,000
1981 Tingle Creek Chase News King Fred Winter Great Britain £175,000
1980 Christmas Hurdle Celtic Ryde Peter Cundell Great Britain £130,000
1980 Henry VIII Novices' Chase Easter Eel Fred Winter Great Britain £100,000
1980 Long Walk Hurdle Derring Rose Fred Winter Great Britain £125,000
1980 Welsh Grand National Narvik Neville Crump Great Britain £170,000
1979 Cathcart Challenge Cup Roller Coaster Fred Winter Great Britain £80,000
1978 Cheltenham Gold Cup Midnight Court Fred Winter Great Britain £646,880
1978 Persian War Novices' Hurdle Ballyfin Lake Fred Winter Great Britain £75,000
1977 Persian War Novices' Hurdle The Dealer Fred Winter Great Britain £75,000
1977 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase Uncle Bing Richard Head Great Britain £120,000
1975 Broadway Novices' Chase Pengrail Fred Winter Great Britain £200,000
1975 Christmas Hurdle Lanzarote Fred Winter Great Britain £130,000
1975 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase King Flame Richard Head Great Britain £150,000
1975 Long Walk Hurdle Lanzarote Fred Winter Great Britain £125,000

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 202nd of 216 on big-race wins

# Jockey Wins Races Span Biggest win
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
203 Peter Schiergen 32 23 1985 to 1996 £427,350
204 João Moreira 31 18 2014 to 2023 £4,511,278£4.5m
205 Earl Sande 31 15 1921 to 1930 £3,759,399£3.8m
206 Conn McCreary 31 21 1941 to 1958 £3,759,399£3.8m
207 Eibar Coa 31 22 1997 to 2010 £1,503,759£1.5m
208 Ted Durcan 31 28 2000 to 2013 £4,511,278£4.5m
209 Pat Smullen 31 18 1998 to 2016 £1,500,000£1.5m
210 Avelino Gomez 31 12 1956 to 1976 £536,800
211 Tom Scudamore 31 21 2001 to 2021 £375,000
212 Johnny Sellers 30 29 1958 to 1972 £3,759,399£3.8m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has John Francome won?

32, across 21 different races between 1975 and 1985. That is 202nd of the 216 jockeys on this site.

What is the biggest race John Francome has won?

the Cheltenham Gold Cup, worth £646,880 and run in Great Britain. John Francome won it in 1978.

Which race has John Francome won most often?

the Persian War Novices' Hurdle, 3 times at Chepstow Racecourse. 10 of these races have gone to John Francome more than once.

How much prize money has John Francome 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: 32 wins, the biggest of them worth £646,880.

When did John Francome win these races?

Between 1975 and 1985. The busiest spell was 1984, with 6 of them.

Where to next

The races John Francome has won, and the riders around them

The races John Francome has won

The riders either side

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