Pat Cosgrave

This season tells a similar story. Fifty-three winners from 475 rides, which works out at roughly 1 in every 9 races — an 11% win rate that sounds modest until you realise how many jockeys never get close to that consistency across nearly 500 attempts. Volume and reliability are hard to combine, and Cosgrave manages both.

His most important working relationship is with trainer James Owen, and the numbers there are striking for all the right reasons. Thirteen wins from 117 rides together — again that 11% figure — might not leap off the page, but 117 rides represents a serious, sustained partnership built on trust. When a trainer keeps putting you up race after race, it means something.

Where Cosgrave genuinely stands apart, though, is at Great Yarmouth. Eight winners from just 14 runners at that track is a quite extraordinary record — that is winning more than half his races there, at a venue where most jockeys would be delighted to win a quarter. It is the kind of local dominance that punters quietly bookmark and trainers quietly notice. Something about the way the track rides, the tight turns, the particular demands it makes on horse and rider, suits Cosgrave down to the ground.

Speaking of ground, he also has a notably sharp record when conditions turn soft — 5 wins from 18 races on wet or muddy ground works out at 28%, or better than 1 in every 4 rides. That is almost three times his overall win rate, which suggests he adjusts his riding style when the going gets testing rather than simply hoping for the best. Adaptability like that is rarer than it sounds. Four years in, 168 winners deep, Pat Cosgrave looks like a jockey still on the way up.