Here at the Jockeys website, we pride ourselves in detailing both household names of the racing world, as well as up and coming jockeys making a name for themselves in the moment. Of course if we take a snapshot of ‘now’, the blend is often a combination of the two, with both experience and a hunger to succeed forming part of that mix. Let’s take a look at 2025 over both the flat and jumps to demonstrate that.
At time of writing in the Flat Jockeys Championship, Oisin Murphy is predictably riding high with 93 wins from 392 rides. Being that he’s last years winner this will surprise few, and with very healthy prize money total of £3,485,276 this talented jockey has no shortage of motivation to perform to the highest level. He’s certainly waging a very strong bid to retain his champion status and horse racing tipsters won’t be at all surprised by his top tier performances. Just as newsworthy though is Billy Loughnane in second place on the leaderboard. He’s positively exploded onto the scene with total prize money of over £1 million, and at just 19 years old, the brightest of futures ahead of him. His work ethic has paid dividends resulting in a Group One win (Grosser Preis von Berlin) and being crowned 2024-25 British All‑Weather Champion Jockey.
The likes of Rossa Ryan and Tom Marquand have put in top performances too, and let’s not forget that Hollie Doyle in May 2025 broke the record of the total number of career wins for a female jockey. What a career trajectory she’s had. The flat racing season started on May 3rd 2025 and ends on Champions day at Ascot on October 18th.
Now let’s briefly turn our gaze to the Jumps racing season. Again at time of writing, jockey Sean Bowen is riding high (excuse the pun) with 65 wins from 229 rides and prize money of over half a million pounds. The closest competitor to him is James Bowen on 28 wins, with last years champion jockey Harry Cobden off to something of a slow start by his high standards – that said he his known to be something of a momentum based jockey, so don’t be surprised if he picks up the pace. Of note also is Harry Skelton currently who has 21 wins and is Leading the David Power Jockeys’ Cup.
All in all, I’d say the stand outs in 2025 so far are Sean Bowen’s performance over the jumps but above and beyond that Billy Loughnane’s season to date. At such a young age, he’s certainly showing what natural ability and the will to win can achieve over a short period of time, and it’s exciting to see where his career will go in the coming years. Stay tuned!
