Jonny Peate

The drop is worth paying attention to, not because 14 winners is nothing — it genuinely isn't — but because 327 rides is a heavy workload, and converting so few of them will be a source of frustration. Plenty of jockeys in his position would be questioning their bookings, their partnerships, and whether the right horses are finding their way to them.

His most regular relationship is with trainer J R Jenkins, and that pairing tells a similar story: 3 wins from 59 rides together, which works out at roughly 1 in every 20. That's a 5% win rate — marginally better than his overall numbers, but not the kind of dominant partnership that transforms a career. It's a working relationship rather than a winning formula, at least for now.

What the numbers don't fully capture is that 109 career winners in four years shows genuine staying power. Plenty of conditional and apprentice jockeys never reach three figures. Peate has, and that matters. The question heading into the rest of this season is whether the dip is a blip — the kind of cold run every jockey endures — or whether it reflects something harder to fix. At 4% this year after 9% last year, that gap is significant enough to demand an answer.