Jamie Moore is one of three successful jockey sons of West Sussex trainer Gary Moore, albeit that he and his younger brother Josh – who now shares the training licence with his father – are retired from the saddle and his older brother Ryan is currently sidelined with a stress fracture of his femur. He rode his first winner, of any description, Stormy Skye, trained by his father, in an amateur riders’ classified stakes race at Nottingham in November 2001 and his first under National Hunt Rules, Blue Streak, also trained by his father, in an amateur riders’ handicap hurdle at Plumpton a little over a year later. Moore subsequently became conditonal jockey to Martin Pipe in Nicholashayne, Somerset and, in 2003/04, rode 48 winners to take the comditional jockeys’ title.
In the professional ranks, Moore enjoyed his most successful season, numerically, in 2021/22, when he rode 80 winners from 416 rides, at a strike rate of 19%. In his career as a whole, he rode 959 winners on British soil, including seven at Grade 1 level. Five of those Grade 1 wins, including the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the 2014 Cheltenham Festival, came courtesy of Sir De Grugy, who was awarded a Timeform Annual Rating of 170 and whom Moore rode to all 17 career wins.
On November 21, 2023, Moore broke two ribs and his nose and fractured his seventh thoracic vertebra when his mount, Mi Sueno, trained by Paddy Butler, fell heavily at the second-last flight in a handicap hurdle at Lingfield. After spending six weeks in a neck brace, he recovered, but the following February announced his retirement from the saddle, with immediate effect, on medical advice. He rode his last winner, Kotmask, trained by his father, at Plumpton on the day before his injury.
