Winning most National Hunt jockeys still active

[thewexfordman]

Quiz Question – Since Richard Johnsons retirement yesterday who is the winningmost NH jockey still active? (Most of their total winners must have come in NH races)

[Nathan Hughes]

I’m not sure but it does feel an end of an era with McCoy, Geraghty, Walsh and now Johnson no longer riding

Blackbeard to conquer the World

[espmadrid]

In the UK? I would guess Paddy Brennan.

....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.

[robnorth]

Tom Scudamore 1372
Brian Hughes 1311
Paddy Brennan 1310

Sam Twiston-Davies 1157 and Aidan Coleman has 1129 and I can’t think of any others that might be closer, but this was a bit of a random check and those are GB jumps figures so there might be a few Irish to add.

[gamble]

Blood brothers the three but looking at Training and breeding of the top one Tom…

Schooling…Cheltenham College
Sire…A ten time champion
Grandsire…won the Grand National (Oxo)

[thewexfordman]

No one correct yet

[The Tatling Cheekily]

Graham Lee?

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[Cork All Star]

Are we talking about winners in Britain or in Ireland as well? Because Davy Russell must have ridden plenty of winners in both countries.

[thewexfordman]

Correct the Tatling…the majority of Graham Lee’s 1,800+ winners have come in National Hunt races. Although he hasn’t ridden in a National Hunt race this season yet, he won a bumper last season.

Corkallstar – Davy has over 1,500 and hopefully will be able to get back and add a few more.

At current pace Brian Hughes is likely to overtake Scudamore in about a years time.

Top 3 –
Lee
Russell
Scudamore

[robnorth]

Two points here:

1. Graham Lee is not currently active in National Hunt so I didn’t include. Fine jockey though over many years.

2. Assumed that this covered GB based jockeys but OP didn’t actually state that, so no problem with including Davy Russell.

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