SALARYSPORT
★ 0
TRAINER · 160th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Ryan Price

35 wins in the world's richest races between 1948 and 1982, across 24 different races. The biggest is the Champion Hurdle, worth £450,000.

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 £450k
RACES WON 24
FIRST AND LAST 1948 to 1982
COUNTRIES 3

When the wins came

35 wins from 1948 to 1982, in 3-year spells

Best spell: 1971-73, 7 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Ryan Price took 7 of these 35 in 1971-73 alone.

The races Ryan Price keeps winning

By number of wins

8 won more than once

Champion Hurdle 3 Triumph Hurdle 3 Thoroughbred Stakes 3 Bet365 Gold Cup 2 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase 2 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle 2 March Stakes 2 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes 2 Grosser Preis von Baden 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp 1 King Edward VII Stakes 1 Great Voltigeur Stakes 1

Every big race Ryan Price has won

35 winners, newest first

24 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
1982 Thoroughbred Stakes Mennea Lester Piggott Great Britain £100,000
1979 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes Lake City Brian Taylor Great Britain £20,000
1979 Grosser Preis von Baden M-Lolshan Brian Taylor Germany £341,880
1978 Great Voltigeur Stakes Whitstead Brian Taylor Great Britain £250,000
1978 King George V Stakes M-Lolshan Willie Carson Great Britain £110,000
1978 Lingfield Derby Trial Whitstead Brian Taylor Great Britain £60,000
1978 Sandown Classic Trial Whitstead Brian Taylor Great Britain £85,000
1978 Sandy Lane Stakes Skyliner Brian Taylor Great Britain £125,000
1976 King Edward VII Stakes Marquis de Sade Brian Taylor Great Britain £250,500
1976 March Stakes Marquis de Sade Brian Taylor Great Britain £100,000
1976 Thoroughbred Stakes Quite Candid Brian Taylor Great Britain £100,000
1975 March Stakes Whip It Quick Tony Murray Great Britain £100,000
1974 Greenham Stakes Glen Strae Tony Murray Great Britain £55,000
1973 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp Sandford Lad Tony Murray France £299,145
1973 Thoroughbred Stakes Knight Templar Tony Murray Great Britain £100,000
1973 Triumph Hurdle Moonlight Bay Johnny Haine Great Britain £150,000
1971 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes Good Bond Jimmy Lindley Great Britain £20,000
1971 Cocked Hat Stakes Levanter Lester Piggott Great Britain £60,000
1971 Craven Stakes Levanter Tony Murray Great Britain £85,000
1971 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Persian Majesty Terry Biddlecombe Great Britain £150,000
1967 Broadway Novices' Chase Border Jet Josh Gifford Great Britain £200,000
1967 Paddy Power Gold Cup Charlie Worcester Josh Gifford Great Britain £160,000
1966 Bet365 Gold Cup What a Myth Paul Kelleway Great Britain £175,000
1962 County Handicap Hurdle Sky Pink Fred Winter Great Britain £100,000
1962 Triumph Hurdle Beaver II Josh Gifford Great Britain £150,000
1961 Champion Hurdle Eborneezer Fred Winter Great Britain £450,000
1961 Triumph Hurdle Cantab Fred Winter Great Britain £150,000
1959 Bet365 Gold Cup Done Up Harry Sprague Great Britain £175,000
1959 Champion Hurdle Fare Time Fred Winter Great Britain £450,000
1958 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Malacca III Fred Winter Great Britain £110,000
1957 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Rattler Fred Winter Great Britain £110,000
1955 Champion Hurdle Clair Soleil Fred Winter Great Britain £450,000
1953 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase Sy Oui Fred Winter Great Britain £120,000
1951 Sun Racing Plate Handicap Chase Slender (DH) Fred Winter Great Britain £120,000
1948 Welsh Grand National Bora's Cottage Eddie Reavey Great Britain £170,000

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.

Where Ryan Price wins

3 countries

Country Wins Share Biggest race won there
Great Britain 33 94% Champion Hurdle
Germany 1 3% Grosser Preis von Baden
France 1 3% Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp

The trainers either side

Ranked 160th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
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
157 Alec Taylor Jr. 35 11 1905 to 1927 £700,000
158 Tom Dreaper 35 13 1946 to 1971 £646,880
159 John Fellows 35 26 1971 to 1995 £854,701
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
168 Doug O'Neill 33 27 2005 to 2025 £3,759,399£3.8m
169 Bert Mulholland 33 22 1936 to 1967 £1,503,759£1.5m
170 Paddy Prendergast 33 15 1950 to 1980 £854,701

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Ryan Price won?

35, across 24 different races between 1948 and 1982. That is 160th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Ryan Price has won?

the Champion Hurdle, worth £450,000 and run in Great Britain. Ryan Price won it in 1961, 1959, 1955.

Which race has Ryan Price won most often?

the Champion Hurdle, 3 times at Cheltenham Racecourse. 8 of these races have gone to Ryan Price more than once.

How much prize money has Ryan Price 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 £450,000.

When did Ryan Price win these races?

Between 1948 and 1982. The busiest spell was 1971-73, with 7 of them.

Where to next

The races Ryan Price has won, and the trainers around them

The races Ryan Price has won

The trainers either side

Elsewhere in racing