page_title: Richard Johnson (jockey)
section_title: First championship and 3000 winners (2009 to 2016)
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Johnson (jockey) / Jockey career / First championship and 3000 winners (2009 to 2016)
caption_attribution_description: Richard Johnson before and after Light The World's race at Southwell, 20th April 2012.
context_page_description: Richard Johnson OBE is an English National Hunt jockey. Johnson is the second most prolific winner in the history of National Hunt Racing behind Sir Anthony McCoy, a long-time rival of Johnson's, with over 3500 winners. Richard Dunwoody previously held the record with 1874.
  Johnson holds the record for the most appearances in the Grand National and also the record for the most rides in the race without a victory. Johnson has twice won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, on Looks Like Trouble in 2000 and Native River in 2018. Johnson has been Champion Jockey on 4 occasions and has been a runner-up 17 times in the Championship.
context_section_description: In this period Johnson saw further success, riding 100 winners each season but continued to finished second to Tony McCoy in the Jockeys Championship. The 2010 season brought victory in the Punchestown Gold Cup, riding Planet of Sound who was trained by Philip Hobbs. In 2011, Johnson won his first Scottish Grand National, piloting Beshabar to victory. Johnson also won the Arkle Challenge Trophy in 2011 aboard Captain Chris. Johnson won the Midlands Grand National in 2014 on Goulanes.
  The 3,000th winner came on board St. Saviour at Ludlow on 4 January 2016. In the same season, having been runner up to Tony McCoy on 16 occasions throughout McCoy's 20-year dominance of the Champion Jockey title, Johnson was finally crowned champion for the first time in 2016 following McCoy's retirement the previous season. 2016 also delivered Johnson a second Welsh Grand National, riding Native River, a horse that would deliver him subsequent success at the Cheltenham Festival.
caption: Johnson in 2012
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