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TRAINER · 180th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Gordon W. Richards

31 wins in the world's richest races between 1969 and 1998, across 16 different races. The biggest is the Queen Mother Champion Chase, worth £400,000.

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 31
BIGGEST WIN £400k
RACES WON 16
FIRST AND LAST 1969 to 1998
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

31 wins from 1969 to 1998, in 3-year spells

Best spell: 1995-97, 6 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Gordon W. Richards took 6 of these 31 in 1995-97 alone.

The races Gordon W. Richards keeps winning

By number of wins

8 won more than once

Future Champion Novices' Chase 5 King George VI Chase 3 December Gold Cup 3 Charlie Hall Chase 3 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase 2 Scottish Grand National 2 Maghull Novices' Chase 2 Red Rum Handicap Chase 2 Queen Mother Champion Chase 1 Coral Gold Cup 1 Bet365 Gold Cup 1 Paddy Power Gold Cup 1

Every big race Gordon W. Richards has won

31 winners, newest first

16 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
1998 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Unguided Missile Paul Carberry Great Britain £150,000
1998 Queen Mother Champion Chase One Man Brian Harding Great Britain £400,000
1997 Charlie Hall Chase One Man Richard Dunwoody Great Britain £100,000
1996 Charlie Hall Chase One Man Richard Dunwoody Great Britain £100,000
1996 December Gold Cup Addington Boy Tony Dobbin Great Britain £125,000
1996 Future Champion Novices' Chase Addington Boy Tony Dobbin Great Britain £24,000
1996 King George VI Chase One Man Richard Dunwoody Great Britain £250,000
1995 King George VI Chase One Man Richard Dunwoody Great Britain £250,000
1994 Coral Gold Cup One Man Tony Dobbin Great Britain £250,000
1991 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Montpelier Lad Neale Doughty Great Britain £110,000
1990 Scottish Grand National Four Trix Derek Byrne Great Britain £150,000
1989 December Gold Cup Clever Folly Neale Doughty Great Britain £125,000
1988 Future Champion Novices' Chase Jim Thorpe Mark Dwyer Great Britain £24,000
1988 Maghull Novices' Chase Jim Thorpe Chris Grant Great Britain £120,000
1987 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Tartan Tailor Phil Tuck Great Britain £150,000
1984 Future Champion Novices' Chase Noddy's Ryde Neale Doughty Great Britain £24,000
1984 Maghull Novices' Chase Noddy's Ryde Neale Doughty Great Britain £120,000
1984 Red Rum Handicap Chase Little Bay John Francome Great Britain £100,000
1982 Red Rum Handicap Chase Little Bay Jonjo O'Neill Great Britain £100,000
1981 Cathcart Challenge Cup Lord Greystoke Neale Doughty Great Britain £80,000
1981 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Current Gold Neale Doughty Great Britain £150,000
1981 Future Champion Novices' Chase Little Bay Ron Barry Great Britain £24,000
1979 Paddy Power Gold Cup Man Alive Ron Barry Great Britain £160,000
1976 Future Champion Novices' Chase Cromwell Road David Goulding Great Britain £24,000
1975 International Hurdle Sea Pigeon Jonjo O'Neill Great Britain £112,000
1974 Charlie Hall Chase Tamalin Jonjo O'Neill Great Britain £100,000
1971 Bet365 Gold Cup Titus Oates Ron Barry Great Britain £175,000
1969 December Gold Cup Titus Oates Ron Barry Great Britain £125,000
1969 King George VI Chase Titus Oates Stan Mellor Great Britain £250,000
1969 Scottish Grand National Playlord Ron Barry Great Britain £150,000

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 180th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
170 Paddy Prendergast 33 15 1950 to 1980 £854,701
171 Doug Watson 33 15 2005 to 2025 £751,880
172 Venetia Williams 33 24 1998 to 2026 £250,000
173 Philippe Demercastel 33 26 1988 to 2013 £512,821
174 Harro Remmert 33 21 1980 to 2002 £555,556
175 Steven M. Asmussen 32 17 2001 to 2024 £5,263,158£5.3m
176 Edward A. Neloy 32 22 1954 to 1970 £1,127,820£1.1m
177 Mark Frostad 32 14 1994 to 2012 £3,759,399£3.8m
178 Joseph Lawson 32 16 1929 to 1955 £1,500,000£1.5m
179 Luigi Camici 32 19 1986 to 2006 £4,273,504£4.3m
181 W. Elliott Walden 30 27 1995 to 2005 £1,503,759£1.5m
182 Ralph Beckett 30 27 2007 to 2025 £4,273,504£4.3m
183 Brian Meehan 30 24 1997 to 2024 £4,511,278£4.5m
184 Josie Carroll 30 20 1995 to 2026 £751,880
185 Richard Fahey 30 25 1998 to 2024 £854,701
186 Jenny Pitman 30 19 1977 to 1998 £646,880
187 Andreas Löwe 30 21 1987 to 2014 £427,350
1 André Fabre 893 156 1980 to 2026 £5,263,158£5.3m
2 Aidan O'Brien 385 97 1996 to 2026 £4,511,278£4.5m
3 Bob Baffert 377 99 1992 to 2026 £9,022,556£9.0m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Gordon W. Richards won?

31, across 16 different races between 1969 and 1998. That is 180th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Gordon W. Richards has won?

the Queen Mother Champion Chase, worth £400,000 and run in Great Britain. Gordon W. Richards won it in 1998.

Which race has Gordon W. Richards won most often?

the Future Champion Novices' Chase, 5 times at Ayr Racecourse. 8 of these races have gone to Gordon W. Richards more than once.

How much prize money has Gordon W. Richards 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: 31 wins, the biggest of them worth £400,000.

When did Gordon W. Richards win these races?

Between 1969 and 1998. The busiest spell was 1995-97, with 6 of them.

Where to next

The races Gordon W. Richards has won, and the trainers around them

The races Gordon W. Richards has won

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