# British Flat Jockeys Championship 2017

The 2017 British Flat Jockeys Championship was the competition to find the British flat racing Champion Jockey, the jockey with the most wins in Great Britain during the peak period of the British flat racing season from the start of the Guineas Meeting on Saturday 6 May to British Champions Day on Saturday 21 October 2017. It was won by Silvestre de Sousa for the second time. He finished with 155 winners in the qualifying period, ahead of the reigning champion, Jim Crowley. De Sousa had in fact passed 200 winners for the year at Lingfield on 18 October, and had effectively won the title many weeks before.
De Sousa was presented with award in a ceremony at Ascot. He said of the victory, "It's great to be here after a long season. I've worked really hard this year and I always wanted to win the title again and I finally did. For the last few weeks I've been very confident that no one could catch me. Whoever was in second and third, they were going to need to work twice as hard to catch me."
The Championship was sponsored by Stobart.

## Final table

| Rank | Jockey | Wins | Rides | Strike rate | Total prize money (£) |
| 1 | Silvestre De Sousa | 155 | 854 | 18% | 1,786,226 |
| 2 | Jim Crowley | 111 | 636 | 17% | 4,652,559 |
| 3 | Ryan Moore | 105 | 452 | 23% | 7,466,059 |
| 4 | Daniel Tudhope | 93 | 517 | 18% | 1,337,497 |
| 5 | James Doyle | 89 | 416 | 21% | 3,031,776 |
| 6 | Luke Morris | 82 | 717 | 11% | 1,071,084 |
| 7 | P. J. McDonald | 80 | 550 | 15% | 1,438,987 |
| 8 | Joe Fanning | 78 | 510 | 15% | 954,582 |
| 9 | Oisin Murphy | 76 | 578 | 13% | 2,079,196 |
| 10 | Andrea Atzeni | 75 | 412 | 18% | 2,786,970 |
| 11 | Paul Mulrennan | 70 | 538 | 13% | 652,115 |
| 12 | Jamie Spencer | 67 | 417 | 16% | 1,036,101 |
| 13 | Graham Lee | 66 | 543 | 12% | 621,988 |
| 14 | William Buick | 64 | 285 | 22% | 2,723,475 |
| 15 | David Probert | 62 | 507 | 12% | 756,001 |
| 16 | Adam Kirby | 61 | 424 | 14% | 1,486,389 |
| 17 | Paul Hanagan | 58 | 520 | 11% | 1,138,360 |
| 18 | Harry Bentley | 57 | 373 | 15% | 978,820 |
| 19 | Franny Norton | 57 | 455 | 13% | 814,939 |
| 20 | Pat Cosgrave | 56 | 373 | 15% | 737,832 |
| 21 | Dane O'Neill | 53 | 341 | 16% | 578,290 |
| 22 | Richard Kingscote | 53 | 429 | 12% | 799,198 |
| 23 | David Egan | 53 | 448 | 12% | 572,817 |
| 24 | Josephine Gordon | 53 | 480 | 11% | 866,361 |
| 25 | Kieran Shoemark | 52 | 393 | 13% | 592,073 |
| 26 | Ben Curtis | 51 | 420 | 12% | 398,595 |
| 27 | Tom Marquand | 49 | 470 | 10% | 587,040 |
| 28 | Tony Hamilton | 49 | 479 | 10% | 511,429 |
| 29 | David Allan | 48 | 395 | 12% | 756,027 |
| 30 | Kevin Stott | 47 | 302 | 16% | 483,091 |
| 31 | Sean Levey | 47 | 381 | 12% | 956,277 |
| 32 | Phillip Makin | 43 | 354 | 12% | 414,761 |
| 33 | Shane Kelly | 42 | 427 | 10% | 365,911 |
| 34 | Fran Berry | 42 | 487 | 9% | 638,293 |
| 35 | Tom Eaves | 42 | 507 | 8% | 548,227 |
| 36 | George Wood | 41 | 294 | 14% | 530,582 |
| 37 | James Sullivan | 41 | 459 | 9% | 619,409 |
| 38 | Andrew Mullen | 41 | 468 | 9% | 372,481 |
| 39 | Frankie Dettori | 40 | 185 | 22% | 4,441,849 |
| 40 | Charles Bishop | 40 | 281 | 14% | 453,691 |
| 41 | J F Egan | 40 | 348 | 11% | 414,400 |
| 42 | Martin Harley | 40 | 367 | 11% | 650,016 |
| 43 | Jason Hart | 40 | 367 | 11% | 319,527 |
| 44 | Robert Winston | 38 | 330 | 12% | 746,330 |
| 45 | Connor Beasley | 35 | 386 | 9% | 326,256 |
| 46 | Hollie Doyle | 31 | 269 | 12% | 349,875 |
| 47 | Martin Dwyer | 31 | 336 | 9% | 398,424 |
| 48 | Liam Keniry | 30 | 379 | 8% | 202,049 |
| 49 | Lewis Edmunds | 29 | 244 | 12% | 242,248 |
| 50 | Dougie Costello | 28 | 347 | 8% | 248,188 |
| 51 | Callum Rodriguez | 27 | 191 | 14% | 343,223 |
| 52 | Edward Greatrex | 27 | 203 | 13% | 240,520 |
| 53 | Martin Lane | 27 | 207 | 13% | 254,816 |
| 54 | Jack Garritty | 26 | 291 | 9% | 207,887 |
| 55 | Pat Dobbs | 25 | 297 | 8% | 403,367 |
| 56 | Adam McNamara | 24 | 224 | 11% | 242,890 |
| 57 | Hector Crouch | 24 | 252 | 10% | 161,655 |
| 58 | Adam Beschizza | 24 | 260 | 9% | 164,451 |
| 59 | Clifford Lee | 23 | 187 | 12% | 257,480 |
| 60 | Rowan Scott | 23 | 231 | 10% | 183,428 |
| 61 | Charlie Bennett | 23 | 249 | 9% | 163,315 |
| 62 | Daniel Muscutt | 23 | 252 | 9% | 282,405 |
| 63 | Joshua Bryan | 22 | 174 | 13% | 136,448 |
| 64 | Joe Doyle | 22 | 246 | 9% | 202,432 |
| 65 | Tom Queally | 22 | 300 | 7% | 737,251 |
| 66 | Callum Shepherd | 21 | 228 | 9% | 150,277 |
| 67 | Jack Mitchell | 20 | 183 | 11% | 208,606 |
| 68 | Stevie Donohoe | 20 | 335 | 6% | 332,615 |
| 69 | Phil Dennis | 19 | 173 | 11% | 113,774 |
| 70 | Ben Robinson | 19 | 185 | 10% | 113,502 |
| 71 | Nathan Evans | 19 | 212 | 9% | 165,734 |
| 72 | Steve Drowne | 19 | 217 | 9% | 150,785 |
| 73 | Jane Elliott | 18 | 185 | 10% | 106,562 |
| 74 | Mitch Godwin | 18 | 228 | 8% | 119,263 |
| 75 | David Nolan | 18 | 242 | 7% | 179,218 |
| 76 | Georgia Cox | 17 | 109 | 16% | 160,412 |
| 77 | Connor Murtagh | 17 | 209 | 8% | 203,011 |
| 78 | Kieran O'Neill | 17 | 282 | 6% | 193,088 |
| 79 | Manuel Fernandes | 16 | 81 | 20% | 79,838 |
| 80 | Robert Tart | 16 | 116 | 14% | 315,032 |
| 81 | Jamie Gormley | 16 | 152 | 11% | 191,153 |
| 82 | Finley Marsh | 16 | 159 | 10% | 119,292 |
| 83 | Timmy Murphy | 16 | 197 | 8% | 91,147 |
| 84 | Fergus Sweeney | 16 | 221 | 7% | 160,884 |
| 85 | Rob Hornby | 16 | 262 | 6% | 164,490 |
| 86 | Sam James | 15 | 174 | 9% | 133,556 |
| 87 | Barry McHugh | 15 | 220 | 7% | 392,891 |
| 88 | Joey Haynes | 15 | 223 | 7% | 196,250 |
| 89 | Sammy Jo Bell | 14 | 149 | 9% | 134,820 |
| 90 | William Carson | 14 | 210 | 7% | 124,073 |
| 91 | Rachel Richardson | 14 | 230 | 6% | 231,247 |
| 92 | William Cox | 13 | 111 | 12% | 79,663 |
| 93 | Sam Hitchcott | 13 | 154 | 8% | 121,734 |
| 94 | Royston Ffrench | 13 | 216 | 6% | 132,325 |
| 95 | Gerald Mosse | 12 | 79 | 15% | 243,332 |
| 96 | Jimmy Quinn | 12 | 190 | 6% | 213,017 |
| 97 | Cam Hardie | 12 | 323 | 4% | 147,359 |
| 98 | Paddy Pilley | 11 | 130 | 8% | 87,064 |
| 99 | Kieren Fox | 11 | 136 | 8% | 89,395 |
| 100 | Shane Gray | 11 | 204 | 5% | 95,703 |