The Most Successful Cheltenham Festival Jockeys of All Time

The Cheltenham Festival has been going since 1860. It has had hundreds of successful jockeys. The list of the most successful ones is based on their records from the 1980s onwards.

Sir Anthony Peter McCoy is the most successful National Hunt jockey in history. He won 4,348 jump races and 10 flat races. McCoy won the title of National Champion Jockey 20 times in a row from 1995-2015. At the Cheltenham Festival, he won two Cheltonham Gold Cups and three Champion Hurdle trophies.

Peter Scudamore won three Top Jockey titles at the Cheltenham Festival between 1986 and 1991. He won 13 races at Chelteham, including two Champion Hurdle trophies and one Queen Mother Champion Chase trophy.

Ruby Walsh is one of the most successful jockeys at the Cheltenham Festival. He won 59 races between 1998 and 2019. He became the Top Jockey 11 times in total at Chelterham.

Ruby Walsh won 59 races at the Cheltenham Festival between 1998 and 2019. He became the Top Jockey 11 times in total at Chelterham.

Paul Townsend, Davy Russell and Rachael Blackmore are the best jockeys with the highest odds of winning the Top Jockey award at the Cheltenham Festival 2022. Ruby Walsh's record of the most races won in one year (7) can be broken in 2022, but most likely Rachaael will break it. Only active jockey who have won Top joker at Cheltonham at least once is Davi Russell (2018), Nicolai de Boinville (2019), Paul Townsend (2020), and Rchaael (2021).