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TRAINER · 158th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Tom Dreaper

35 wins in the world's richest races between 1946 and 1971, across 13 different races. The biggest is the Cheltenham Gold Cup, worth £646,880.

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 £647k
RACES WON 13
FIRST AND LAST 1946 to 1971
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

35 wins from 1946 to 1971, in 3-year spells

Best spell: 1965-67, 10 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Tom Dreaper took 10 of these 35 in 1965-67 alone.

The races Tom Dreaper keeps winning

By number of wins

9 won more than once

Every big race Tom Dreaper has won

35 winners, newest first

13 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
1971 Arkle Challenge Trophy Alpheus Eddie Wright Great Britain £200,000
1971 December Gold Cup Leap Frog Val O'Brien Great Britain £125,000
1970 Broadway Novices' Chase Proud Tarquin Pat Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1970 Cathcart Challenge Cup Garrynagree Pat Taaffe Great Britain £80,000
1970 Queen Mother Champion Chase Straight Fort Pat Taaffe Great Britain £400,000
1969 Queen Mother Champion Chase Muir Ben Hannon Great Britain £400,000
1968 Cathcart Challenge Cup Muir Pat Taaffe Great Britain £80,000
1968 Cheltenham Gold Cup Fort Leney Pat Taaffe Great Britain £646,880
1966 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £646,880
1966 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Arkloin Pat Taaffe Great Britain £150,000
1966 Queen Mother Champion Chase Flyingbolt Pat Taaffe Great Britain £400,000
1965 Arkle Challenge Trophy Flyingbolt Pat Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1965 Bet365 Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £175,000
1965 Broadway Novices' Chase Arkloin Liam McLoughlin Great Britain £200,000
1965 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £646,880
1965 Coral Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £250,000
1965 December Gold Cup Flyingbolt Pat Taaffe Great Britain £125,000
1965 King George VI Chase Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £250,000
1964 Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Crown Prince Pat Taaffe Great Britain £110,000
1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £646,880
1964 Coral Gold Cup Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £250,000
1964 Queen Mother Champion Chase Ben Stack Pat Taaffe Great Britain £400,000
1964 Supreme Novices' Hurdle Flyingbolt Pat Taaffe Great Britain £150,000
1963 Arkle Challenge Trophy Ben Stack Pat Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1963 Broadway Novices' Chase Arkle Pat Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1962 Paddy Power Gold Cup Fortria Pat Taaffe Great Britain £160,000
1961 Arkle Challenge Trophy Mountcashel King Pat Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1961 Queen Mother Champion Chase Fortria Pat Taaffe Great Britain £400,000
1960 Paddy Power Gold Cup Fortria Pat Taaffe Great Britain £160,000
1960 Queen Mother Champion Chase Fortria Pat Taaffe Great Britain £400,000
1958 Arkle Challenge Trophy Fortria Tom Taaffe Great Britain £200,000
1958 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Sentina Tom Taaffe Great Britain £150,000
1957 Festival Trophy Handicap Chase Sentina Pat Taaffe Great Britain £150,000
1954 Cathcart Challenge Cup Royal Approach Pat Taaffe Great Britain £80,000
1946 Cheltenham Gold Cup Prince Regent Tim Hyde Great Britain £646,880

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 158th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
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
157 Alec Taylor Jr. 35 11 1905 to 1927 £700,000
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
168 Doug O'Neill 33 27 2005 to 2025 £3,759,399£3.8m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Tom Dreaper won?

35, across 13 different races between 1946 and 1971. That is 158th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Tom Dreaper has won?

the Cheltenham Gold Cup, worth £646,880 and run in Great Britain. Tom Dreaper won it in 1968, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1946.

Which race has Tom Dreaper won most often?

the Queen Mother Champion Chase, 6 times at Cheltenham Racecourse. 9 of these races have gone to Tom Dreaper more than once.

How much prize money has Tom Dreaper 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 £646,880.

When did Tom Dreaper win these races?

Between 1946 and 1971. The busiest spell was 1965-67, with 10 of them.

Where to next

The races Tom Dreaper has won, and the trainers around them