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TRAINER · 157th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Alec Taylor Jr.

35 wins in the world's richest races between 1905 and 1927, across 11 different races. The biggest is the St Leger Stakes, worth £700,000.

Rolls of honour are kept race by race, so a trainer's big-race record only exists once every one of them on this site has been read and turned sideways.

BIG-RACE WINS 35
BIGGEST WIN £700k
RACES WON 11
FIRST AND LAST 1905 to 1927
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

35 wins from 1905 to 1927, in 2-year spells

Best spell: 1920-21, 6 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Alec Taylor Jr. took 6 of these 35 in 1920-21 alone.

The races Alec Taylor Jr. keeps winning

By number of wins

9 won more than once

St Leger Stakes 5 Gordon Stakes 5 Chester Vase 5 Craven Stakes 5 2000 Guineas Stakes 4 Newmarket Stakes 3 St James's Palace Stakes 2 Queen's Vase 2 King Edward VII Stakes 2 Jersey Stakes 1 Dee Stakes 1

Every big race Alec Taylor Jr. has won

35 winners, newest first

11 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
1927 St Leger Stakes Book Law Henri Jelliss Great Britain £700,000
1926 Chester Vase Swift and Sure Bobby Jones Great Britain £140,000
1925 Craven Stakes Picaroon Frank Bullock Great Britain £85,000
1925 Newmarket Stakes Bross Bow Frank Bullock Great Britain £55,000
1924 Chester Vase Inkerman Frank Bullock Great Britain £140,000
1924 Craven Stakes St Germans Frank Bullock Great Britain £85,000
1924 Gordon Stakes Black Sheep Frank Bullock Great Britain £200,000
1924 Newmarket Stakes Hurstwood Vic Smyth Great Britain £55,000
1923 Craven Stakes Light Hand Frank Bullock Great Britain £85,000
1923 Gordon Stakes Bold and Bad Frank Bullock Great Britain £200,000
1923 King Edward VII Stakes Bold And Bad Frank Bullock Great Britain £250,500
1923 Queen's Vase Puttenden Joe Childs Great Britain £262,500
1922 Gordon Stakes Tamar Frank Bullock Great Britain £200,000
1922 Jersey Stakes Dragoon Joe Childs Great Britain £110,000
1921 2000 Guineas Stakes Craig an Eran John Brennan Great Britain £525,000
1921 Newmarket Stakes Lemonora Joe Childs Great Britain £55,000
1921 St James's Palace Stakes Craig an Eran Frank Bullock Great Britain £650,000
1920 Chester Vase Buchan Frank Bullock Great Britain £140,000
1920 Gordon Stakes The Alder Joe Childs Great Britain £200,000
1920 Queen's Vase Kentish Cob Joe Childs Great Britain £262,500
1919 Chester Vase Air Raid Joe Childs Great Britain £140,000
1919 Craven Stakes Buchan Jack Brennan Great Britain £85,000
1918 2000 Guineas Stakes Gainsborough † Joe Childs Great Britain £525,000
1918 St Leger Stakes Gainsborough Joe Childs Great Britain £700,000
1917 2000 Guineas Stakes Gay Crusader † Steve Donoghue Great Britain £525,000
1917 St Leger Stakes Gay Crusader Steve Donoghue Great Britain £700,000
1914 2000 Guineas Stakes Kennymore George Stern Great Britain £525,000
1914 Craven Stakes Kennymore Frank O'Neill Great Britain £85,000
1913 Dee Stakes The Curragh Jim Clark Great Britain £100,000
1913 King Edward VII Stakes Pilliwinkie Danny Maher Great Britain £250,500
1910 Chester Vase Bayardo Danny Maher Great Britain £140,000
1910 St James's Palace Stakes Lemberg Danny Maher Great Britain £650,000
1909 Gordon Stakes Moscato Charlie Trigg Great Britain £200,000
1909 St Leger Stakes Bayardo Danny Maher Great Britain £700,000
1905 St Leger Stakes Challacombe Otto Madden Great Britain £700,000

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 trainer takes a percentage of it, set by the rules of the country the race is run in.

The trainers either side

Ranked 157th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
147 Sam Hildreth 37 12 1899 to 1929 £1,503,759£1.5m
148 J. Elliott Burch 37 20 1950 to 1984 £1,503,759£1.5m
149 Bernard Sécly 37 19 1976 to 2002 £726,496
150 Roger Charlton 37 33 1990 to 2019 £4,511,278£4.5m
151 Jean-Marie Béguigné 37 29 1984 to 2011 £1,282,051£1.3m
152 Richard Hannon Jr. 37 27 2014 to 2024 £650,000
153 MacKenzie Miller 36 22 1956 to 1994 £3,759,399£3.8m
154 James E. Day 36 21 1984 to 2001 £1,503,759£1.5m
155 John M. Veitch 35 29 1977 to 1992 £5,263,158£5.3m
156 Murray Baker 35 16 1990 to 2022 £2,645,503£2.6m
158 Tom Dreaper 35 13 1946 to 1971 £646,880
159 John Fellows 35 26 1971 to 1995 £854,701
160 Ryan Price 35 24 1948 to 1982 £450,000
161 Ivan Allan 34 9 1973 to 2003 £3,040,000£3.0m
162 Neil J. Howard 34 27 1989 to 2017 £1,503,759£1.5m
163 Frank Butters 34 16 1928 to 1949 £4,273,504£4.3m
164 Michael W. McCarthy 34 28 2007 to 2026 £2,255,639£2.3m
165 Peter Walwyn 34 24 1969 to 1995 £1,500,000£1.5m
166 Josh Gifford 34 22 1973 to 2002 £400,000
167 Christophe Ferland 34 26 2011 to 2026 £512,821

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Alec Taylor Jr. won?

35, across 11 different races between 1905 and 1927. That is 157th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Alec Taylor Jr. has won?

the St Leger Stakes, worth £700,000 and run in Great Britain. Alec Taylor Jr. won it in 1927, 1918, 1917, 1909, 1905.

Which race has Alec Taylor Jr. won most often?

the St Leger Stakes, 5 times at Doncaster Racecourse. 9 of these races have gone to Alec Taylor Jr. more than once.

How much prize money has Alec Taylor Jr. won?

The prize goes to the owner, and the trainer 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: 35 wins, the biggest of them worth £700,000.

When did Alec Taylor Jr. win these races?

Between 1905 and 1927. The busiest spell was 1920-21, with 6 of them.

Where to next

The races Alec Taylor Jr. has won, and the trainers around them

The races Alec Taylor Jr. has won

The trainers either side

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