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JOCKEY · 194th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Pat Taaffe

34 wins in the world's richest races between 1953 and 1970, across 15 different races. The biggest is the Grand National, worth £1,000,000.

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 34
BIGGEST WIN £1.0m
RACES WON 15
FIRST AND LAST 1953 to 1970
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

34 wins from 1953 to 1970, in 2-year spells

Best spell: 1964-65, 11 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Pat Taaffe took 11 of these 34 in 1964-65 alone.

The races Pat Taaffe keeps winning

By number of wins

9 won more than once

Queen Mother Champion Chase 5 Broadway Novices' Chase 5 Cheltenham Gold Cup 4 Arkle Challenge Trophy 3 Cathcart Challenge Cup 3 Coral Gold Cup 2 Paddy Power Gold Cup 2 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase 2 Supreme Novices' Hurdle 2 Grand National 1 King George VI Chase 1 Bet365 Gold Cup 1

Every big race Pat Taaffe has won

34 winners, newest first

15 different races

Year Race Horse Trainer Country Worth
1970 Broadway Novices' Chase Proud Tarquin Tom Dreaper Great Britain £200,000
1970 Cathcart Challenge Cup Garrynagree Tom Dreaper Great Britain £80,000
1970 Queen Mother Champion Chase Straight Fort Tom Dreaper Great Britain £400,000
1968 Cathcart Challenge Cup Muir Tom Dreaper Great Britain £80,000
1968 Cheltenham Gold Cup Fort Leney Tom Dreaper (IRE) Great Britain £646,880
1966 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper (IRE) Great Britain £646,880
1966 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Arkloin Tom Dreaper Great Britain £150,000
1966 Queen Mother Champion Chase Flyingbolt Tom Dreaper Great Britain £400,000
1965 Arkle Challenge Trophy Flyingbolt Tom Dreaper Great Britain £200,000
1965 Bet365 Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper Great Britain £175,000
1965 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper (IRE) Great Britain £646,880
1965 Coral Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper Great Britain £250,000
1965 December Gold Cup Flyingbolt Tom Dreaper Great Britain £125,000
1965 King George VI Chase Arkle Tom Dreaper Great Britain £250,000
1964 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Crown Prince Tom Dreaper Great Britain £110,000
1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper (IRE) Great Britain £646,880
1964 Coral Gold Cup Arkle Tom Dreaper Great Britain £250,000
1964 Queen Mother Champion Chase Ben Stack Tom Dreaper Great Britain £400,000
1964 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Flyingbolt Tom Dreaper Great Britain £150,000
1963 Arkle Challenge Trophy Ben Stack Tom Dreaper Great Britain £200,000
1963 Broadway Novices' Chase Arkle Tom Dreaper Great Britain £200,000
1962 Paddy Power Gold Cup Fortria Tom Dreaper Great Britain £160,000
1961 Arkle Challenge Trophy Mountcashel King Tom Dreaper Great Britain £200,000
1961 Broadway Novices' Chase Grallagh Cnoc Joe Osbourne Great Britain £200,000
1961 Queen Mother Champion Chase Fortria Tom Dreaper Great Britain £400,000
1960 Broadway Novices' Chase Solfen Willie O'Grady Great Britain £200,000
1960 Paddy Power Gold Cup Fortria Tom Dreaper Great Britain £160,000
1960 Queen Mother Champion Chase Fortria Tom Dreaper Great Britain £400,000
1957 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Sentina Tom Dreaper Great Britain £150,000
1955 Grand National Quare Times Vincent O'Brien Great Britain £1,000,000£1.0m
1954 Cathcart Challenge Cup Royal Approach Tom Dreaper Great Britain £80,000
1954 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Stroller Vincent O'Brien Great Britain £150,000
1953 Broadway Novices' Chase Coneyburrow Joe Osbourne Great Britain £200,000
1953 County Handicap Hurdle Teapot II Clem Magnier Great Britain £100,000

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 194th of 216 on big-race wins

# Jockey Wins Races Span Biggest win
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
191 Don MacBeth 34 27 1971 to 1986 £5,493,600£5.5m
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
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
202 John Francome 32 21 1975 to 1985 £646,880
203 Peter Schiergen 32 23 1985 to 1996 £427,350
204 João Moreira 31 18 2014 to 2023 £4,511,278£4.5m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Pat Taaffe won?

34, across 15 different races between 1953 and 1970. That is 194th of the 216 jockeys on this site.

What is the biggest race Pat Taaffe has won?

the Grand National, worth £1,000,000 and run in Great Britain. Pat Taaffe won it in 1955.

Which race has Pat Taaffe won most often?

the Queen Mother Champion Chase, 5 times at Cheltenham Racecourse. 9 of these races have gone to Pat Taaffe more than once.

How much prize money has Pat Taaffe 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 £1,000,000.

When did Pat Taaffe win these races?

Between 1953 and 1970. The busiest spell was 1964-65, with 11 of them.

Where to next

The races Pat Taaffe has won, and the riders around them

The races Pat Taaffe has won

The riders either side

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