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Richard Johnson

86 wins in the world's richest races between 1996 and 2019, across 51 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 86
BIGGEST WIN £647k
RACES WON 51
FIRST AND LAST 1996 to 2019
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

86 wins from 1996 to 2019, in 2-year spells

Best spell: 2010-11, 13 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Richard Johnson took 13 of these 86 in 2010-11 alone.

The races Richard Johnson keeps winning

By number of wins

24 won more than once

International Hurdle 6 Long Walk Hurdle 4 Triumph Hurdle 3 December Gold Cup 3 Hyde Novices' Hurdle 3 Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle 3 Scottish Champion Hurdle 3 Cheltenham Gold Cup 2 Liverpool Hurdle 2 Bet365 Gold Cup 2 Welsh Grand National 2 Manifesto Novices' Chase 2

Every big race Richard Johnson has won

86 winners, newest first

51 different races

Year Race Horse Trainer Country Worth
2019 Challow Novices' Hurdle Thyme Hill Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2019 Hyde Novices' Hurdle Thyme Hill Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2019 Many Clouds Chase Native River Colin Tizzard Great Britain £50,000
2019 Persian War Novices' Hurdle Thyme Hill Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2018 Cheltenham Gold Cup Native River Colin Tizzard Great Britain £646,880
2018 Oddschecker Handicap Chase Rock the Kasbah Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2017 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Flying Tiger Nick Williams Great Britain £80,000
2017 Kempton Mares' Hurdle La Bague Au Roi Warren Greatrex Great Britain £25,000
2017 Triumph Hurdle Defi du Seuil Philip Hobbs Great Britain £150,000
2017 Wetherby Mares' Hurdle La Bague au Roi Warren Greatrex Great Britain £30,000
2016 Coral Gold Cup Native River Colin Tizzard Great Britain £250,000
2016 International Hurdle The New One Nigel Twiston-Davies Great Britain £112,000
2016 Welsh Grand National Native River Colin Tizzard Great Britain £170,000
2015 Cheltenham Guardians Safeguarding Team Mares' Open National Hunt Flat Race Copper Kay Philip Hobbs Great Britain £25,000
2015 December Gold Cup Village Vic Philip Hobbs Great Britain £125,000
2015 Future Champion Novices' Chase Top Gamble Richard Lee Great Britain £24,000
2015 Oddschecker Handicap Chase Sausalito Sunrise Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2015 Scottish Champion Hurdle Cheltenian Philip Hobbs Great Britain £40,000
2014 Charlie Hall Chase Menorah Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2014 Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase Balthazar King Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2014 Midlands Grand National Goulanes David Pipe Great Britain £160,000
2014 Old Roan Chase Wishfull Thinking Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2014 Pertemps Final Fingal Bay Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2014 Prestbury Juvenile Hurdle Golden Doyen Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2013 Long Walk Hurdle Reve De Sivola Nick Williams Great Britain £125,000
2012 1965 Chase Captain Chris Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2012 Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase Balthazar King Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2012 Long Walk Hurdle Reve De Sivola Nick Williams Great Britain £125,000
2012 Manifesto Novices' Chase Menorah Philip Hobbs Great Britain £120,000
2011 Arkle Challenge Trophy Captain Chris Philip Hobbs Great Britain £200,000
2011 Challow Novices' Hurdle Fingal Bay Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2011 Champion Bumper Cheltenian Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2011 Hyde Novices' Hurdle Fingal Bay Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2011 Manifesto Novices' Chase Wishfull Thinking Philip Hobbs Great Britain £120,000
2011 Persian War Novices' Hurdle Fingal Bay Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2011 Scottish Grand National Beshabar Tim Vaughan Great Britain £150,000
2011 Sefton Novices' Hurdle Saint Are Tim Vaughan Great Britain £100,000
2011 Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle Arthurian Legend Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2010 Centenary Novices' Handicap Chase Copper Bleu Philip Hobbs Great Britain £40,000
2010 International Hurdle Menorah Philip Hobbs Great Britain £112,000
2010 Rising Stars Novices' Chase Wishfull Thinking Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2010 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Menorah Philip Hobbs Great Britain £150,000
2008 Bet365 Gold Cup Monkerhostin Philip Hobbs Great Britain £175,000
2008 Wetherby Mares' Hurdle My Petra Nicky Henderson Great Britain £30,000
2007 Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle Massini's Maguire Philip Hobbs Great Britain £150,000
2007 Liverpool Hurdle Mighty Man Henry Daly Great Britain £250,000
2006 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Detroit City Philip Hobbs Great Britain £110,000
2006 Bet365 Gold Cup Lacdoudal Philip Hobbs Great Britain £175,000
2006 Henry VIII Novices' Chase Fair Along Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2006 Hyde Novices' Hurdle Massini's Maguire Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2006 International Hurdle Detroit City Philip Hobbs Great Britain £112,000
2006 Liverpool Hurdle Mighty Man Henry Daly Great Britain £250,000
2006 Long Walk Hurdle Mighty Man Henry Daly Great Britain £125,000
2006 Scottish Champion Hurdle Noble Request Philip Hobbs Great Britain £40,000
2006 Triumph Hurdle Detroit City Philip Hobbs Great Britain £150,000
2005 Prestbury Juvenile Hurdle Fair Along Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2005 Sharp Novices' Hurdle Boychuk Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2005 Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle Lacdoudal Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2004 BetMGM Cup Monkerhostin Philip Hobbs Great Britain £110,000
2004 December Gold Cup Monkerhostin Philip Hobbs Great Britain £125,000
2004 Triumph Hurdle Made in Japan Philip Hobbs Great Britain £150,000
2003 Broadway Novices' Chase One Knight Philip Hobbs Great Britain £200,000
2003 Cathcart Challenge Cup La Landiere Richard Phillips Great Britain £80,000
2003 Champion Hurdle Rooster Booster Philip Hobbs Great Britain £450,000
2003 Rising Stars Novices' Chase Brother Joe Philip Hobbs Great Britain £75,000
2003 Scottish Champion Hurdle In Contrast Philip Hobbs Great Britain £40,000
2003 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase Young Spartacus Henry Daly Great Britain £120,000
2002 County Handicap Hurdle Rooster Booster Philip Hobbs Great Britain £100,000
2002 International Hurdle Rooster Booster Philip Hobbs Great Britain £112,000
2002 Queen Mother Champion Chase Flagship Uberalles Philip Hobbs Great Britain £400,000
2002 Red Rum Handicap Chase Dark'n Sharp Richard Phillips Great Britain £100,000
2000 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Lord Brex Philip Hobbs Great Britain £110,000
2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup Looks Like Trouble Noel Chance Great Britain £646,880
2000 Sharp Novices' Hurdle Reiziger Philip Hobbs Great Britain £80,000
2000 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase Dark Stranger Martin Pipe Great Britain £120,000
2000 Tingle Creek Chase Flagship Uberalles Noel Chance Great Britain £175,000
1999 1965 Chase Nordance Prince Venetia Williams Great Britain £80,000
1999 December Gold Cup Legal Right Jonjo O'Neill Great Britain £125,000
1999 International Hurdle Relkeel Alan King Great Britain £112,000
1999 Long Walk Hurdle Anzum Alan King Great Britain £125,000
1999 Stayers' Hurdle Anzum David Nicholson Great Britain £325,000
1999 Welsh Grand National Edmond Henry Daly Great Britain £170,000
1998 Aintree Bowl Escartefigue David Nicholson Great Britain £250,000
1997 International Hurdle Relkeel David Nicholson Great Britain £112,000
1997 Sefton Novices' Hurdle Forest Ivory David Nicholson Great Britain £100,000
1996 Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle Castle Sweep David Nicholson Great Britain £75,000

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 67th of 216 on big-race wins

# Jockey Wins Races Span Biggest win
57 Kent Desormeaux 91 55 1992 to 2023 £3,759,399£3.8m
58 Maurice Philipperon 91 62 1968 to 1990 £2,280,000£2.3m
59 Ioritz Mendizabal 91 68 2003 to 2025 £1,282,051£1.3m
60 Alfred Gibert 88 59 1971 to 1990 £854,701
61 Andreas Suborics 88 56 1995 to 2015 £2,850,000£2.9m
62 Edgar Prado 87 56 1993 to 2020 £3,759,399£3.8m
63 Florent Geroux 86 60 2011 to 2026 £9,022,556£9.0m
64 Johnny Murtagh 86 56 1991 to 2013 £4,273,504£4.3m
65 Eddie Maple 86 48 1970 to 1997 £1,503,759£1.5m
66 Olivier Doleuze 86 57 1992 to 2018 £3,040,000£3.0m
68 Georg Bocskai 85 33 1977 to 2000 £555,556
69 Garrett K. Gomez 84 64 1992 to 2013 £1,503,759£1.5m
70 Craig Perret 83 61 1974 to 2002 £3,759,399£3.8m
71 John Reid 83 68 1978 to 2001 £4,273,504£4.3m
72 Dario Vargiu 83 33 2001 to 2025 £555,556
73 Braulio Baeza 79 38 1960 to 1976 £3,759,399£3.8m
74 Mirco Demuro 79 45 1998 to 2018 £9,022,556£9.0m
75 James Doyle 79 63 2012 to 2026 £4,511,278£4.5m
76 Greville Starkey 78 49 1963 to 1989 £4,273,504£4.3m
77 Rafael Bejarano 77 58 2004 to 2025 £1,503,759£1.5m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Richard Johnson won?

86, across 51 different races between 1996 and 2019. That is 67th of the 216 jockeys on this site.

What is the biggest race Richard Johnson has won?

the Cheltenham Gold Cup, worth £646,880 and run in Great Britain. Richard Johnson won it in 2018, 2000.

Which race has Richard Johnson won most often?

the International Hurdle, 6 times at Cheltenham Racecourse. 24 of these races have gone to Richard Johnson more than once.

How much prize money has Richard Johnson 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: 86 wins, the biggest of them worth £646,880.

When did Richard Johnson win these races?

Between 1996 and 2019. The busiest spell was 2010-11, with 13 of them.

Where to next

The races Richard Johnson has won, and the riders around them

The races Richard Johnson has won

The riders either side

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