James McDonald

[Pegasus 9 264]

[Breeder 435]

A couple of days ago James was sitting on 99 Sydney wins. When he gets to 100, which I'm sure he will , it will be the 4th season in a row he has done it. Only Darren Beadman has done that before.

"McDonald needs just one more Sydney winner to notch triple figures for the fourth consecutive season, a feat only ever achieved by Darren Beadman, who managed it in five consecutive terms from 2002-03 to 2006-07."

Fantastic achievement by James and he is young enough to go and beat Darren's record, quite easily.

I would love to see the stats on how many times James has ridden the second horse, in a race, this year. Looking through the results each week you see it time and again.

[crustyngrizzly 1,518]

7 minutes ago, Breeder said:

A couple of days ago James was sitting on 99 Sydney wins. When he gets to 100, which I'm sure he will , it will be the 4th season in a row he has done it. Only Darren Beadman has done that before.

"McDonald needs just one more Sydney winner to notch triple figures for the fourth consecutive season, a feat only ever achieved by Darren Beadman, who managed it in five consecutive terms from 2002-03 to 2006-07."

Fantastic achievement by James and he is young enough to go and beat Darren's record, quite easily.

I would love to see the stats on how many times James has ridden the second horse, in a race, this year. Looking through the results each week you see it time and again.

He has had 101 2nd placings at Metro level as of today.

[Ponderosa8 917]

12 hours ago, Pegasus 9 said:

Interesting that Ryan Moore isn't in the Top 5

[Memphis3 366]

And Bowman is 

[Breeder 435]

Here is the full list for 2022, so far

https://racing.hkjc.com/racing/english/international-racing/world-rankings/world-jockeys.aspx

Ryan Moore won in 2021 and a couple of previous years (2014 and 2016)

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/ryan-moore-named-longines-worlds-best-jockey/#:~:text=Ryan Moore has won the,different horses in four countries.