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Suzy Volterra

11 wins in the world's richest races between 1955 and 1989, across 10 different races. The biggest is Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, worth £4,273,504.

The owner is the one name on a winner's row the prize actually belongs to. Everybody else in the yard takes a percentage of it, set by the country the race is run in.

BIG-RACE WINS 11
BIGGEST WIN £4.3m
RACES WON 10
FIRST AND LAST 1955 to 1989
COUNTRIES 2

When the wins came

11 wins from 1955 to 1989, by decade

Best decade: the 1980s, 9 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: 9 of these 11 came in the 1980s alone.

The races Suzy Volterra keeps winning

By number of wins

1 won more than once

Prix Ganay 2 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 1 Epsom Derby 1 Prix Eugène Adam 1 Prix Niel 1 Prix Exbury 1 Prix Djebel 1 Prix Gontaut-Biron 1 Prix Noailles 1 Prix La Rochette 1

Every big race Suzy Volterra has won

11 winners, newest first

10 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Trainer Country Worth
1989 Prix Exbury Saint Andrews Alain Badel Jean-Marie Béguigné France £68,376
1989 Prix Ganay Saint Andrews Alain Badel Jean-Marie Béguigné France £256,410
1988 Prix Ganay Saint Andrews Alain Badel Jean-Marie Béguigné France £256,410
1987 Prix Djebel Saint Andrews Alfred Gibert Jean-Marie Béguigné France £68,376
1985 Prix Gontaut-Biron Cariellor Lester Piggott André Fabre France £68,376
1984 Prix Eugène Adam Cariellor Alain Lequeux André Fabre France £111,111
1984 Prix Niel Cariellor Freddy Head André Fabre France £111,111
1984 Prix Noailles Cariellor Alfred Gibert André Fabre France £68,376
1983 Prix La Rochette Cariellor Yves Saint-Martin André Fabre France £68,376
1967 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Topyo Bill Pyers Mick Bartholomew France £4,273,504£4.3m
1955 Epsom Derby Phil Drake Freddie Palmer François Mathet Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m

The figure on each row is what that race puts up today, which is the number that says how big a day it was.

What the owner takes out of a purse

The published split in the countries Suzy Volterra wins in

11 of 11 wins covered

Every racing authority that publishes a rule publishes it as a split of the race fund rather than of a winner's cheque, so these are figures about the races below and not about one person's bank account.

Country Wins there Code Owner's share Purse of those races Owners' share of it
France 10 One code 75% £5,350,427£5.4m £4,012,821£4.0m
Great Britain 1 Flat 80% / 78.25% £1,500,000£1.5m £1,200,000£1.2m

French racing splits a purse four ways and publishes the place ladder as well, which almost no other country does. The owner's share is the largest single line in every country that publishes one, and it is the line that moves when a country changes its rules: British jump racing gives its riders 1.75 points more of every purse than the Flat does, and those points come out of the owner's share rather than anybody else's.

Where Suzy Volterra wins

2 countries

Country Wins Share Biggest race won there
France 10 91% Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
Great Britain 1 9% Epsom Derby

The owners either side

Ranked 226th of 288 on big-race wins

# Owner Wins Races Span Biggest win
206 Buckram Oak Farm 12 11 1980 to 2006 £1,503,759£1.5m
207 Martin S. Schwartz 12 10 2006 to 2017 £1,503,759£1.5m
208 Caro / Augustin-Normand 12 9 2014 to 2019 £1,282,051£1.3m
209 Etti Plesch 12 11 1961 to 1992 £1,500,000£1.5m
210 Gestüt Wittekindshof 12 6 1996 to 2016 £555,556
211 Barry K. Schwartz 12 11 1980 to 2018 £751,880
212 William Hendrie 12 4 1890 to 1903 £536,800
213 Hickory Tree Stable 12 11 1970 to 1987 £563,910
214 Richard C. Strauss 12 7 1986 to 2011 £1,503,759£1.5m
215 Ecurie Skymarc Farm 12 11 1989 to 2008 £854,701
216 Pin Oak Stable 12 11 1991 to 2011 £563,910
217 Jeff Smith 12 10 1984 to 2014 £650,000
218 Fahd Salman 12 11 1986 to 1999 £512,821
219 SARL Darpat France 12 11 2009 to 2019 £427,350
220 Peter Goulandris 12 12 1970 to 1986 £427,350
221 Ecurie J. L. Bouchard 12 11 1999 to 2014 £111,111
222 Rashid Bin Mohammed 12 8 1999 to 2007 £201,700
223 Lady O'Reilly 12 11 1991 to 2010 £111,111
224 Shadwell Racing 11 10 1986 to 2022 £5,291,005£5.3m
225 17th Earl of Derby 11 3 1910 to 1944 £1,500,000£1.5m
227 Lazy F Ranch 11 8 1967 to 1998 £939,850
228 El Peco Ranch 11 11 1955 to 1978 £3,759,399£3.8m
229 G. Watts Humphrey Jr 11 10 1982 to 2019 £1,315,789£1.3m
230 The Thoroughbred Corporation 11 8 1997 to 2002 £751,880
231 e Five Racing Thoroughbreds 11 9 2016 to 2025 £939,850
232 Pam & Martin Wygod 11 10 1995 to 2015 £1,503,759£1.5m
233 Christopher Chenery 11 11 1950 to 1958 £1,503,759£1.5m
234 Michael Lund Petersen 11 9 2016 to 2024 £939,850
235 Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram & Paul Weitman 11 9 2011 to 2024 £1,503,759£1.5m
236 Cynthia Phipps 11 11 1975 to 1996 £563,910
237 Sean Mulryan 11 8 2004 to 2007 £726,496
238 Zahra Aga Khan 11 10 2006 to 2026 £512,821
239 C R K Stable 11 11 2001 to 2026 £451,128
240 Zenya Yoshida 11 11 1973 to 1993 £375,940
241 Nurlan Bizakov 11 11 2022 to 2024 £854,701
242 Allevamento White Star 11 8 1986 to 1989 £235,043
243 Gestüt Park Wiedingen 11 6 2001 to 2022 £555,556
244 VHW Stables 11 7 1991 to 2001 £300,752
245 Scuderia Incolinx 11 8 2002 to 2014 £447,692
246 Scuderia Siba 11 8 1983 to 2009 £447,692

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Suzy Volterra won?

11, across 10 different races between 1955 and 1989. That is 226th of the 288 owners on this site.

What is the biggest race Suzy Volterra has won?

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, worth £4,273,504 and run in France. Suzy Volterra won it in 1967.

Which race has Suzy Volterra won most often?

Prix Ganay, 2 times at Longchamp Racecourse. 1 of these races have gone to Suzy Volterra more than once.

How much of the prize does an owner keep?

France gives the owner 75% of the fund, and Great Britain gives the owner 80% on the Flat and 78.25% on the Jumps of the fund. The rest is split between the trainer, the riders and the sport itself, and the owner is the only party paid the prize rather than a percentage of it.

When did Suzy Volterra win these races?

Between 1955 and 1989. The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 9 of them.

Who rides for Suzy Volterra?

8 different riders have won one of these races in the colours, across 11 wins. The horses number 4.

Where to next

The races Suzy Volterra has won, and the owners around them

The races Suzy Volterra has won

The owners either side

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