WILL BRIAN HUGHES RETAIN HIS JUMP JOCKEYS TITLE?
October 21st, 2020
After last season's rather strange and truncated end to the National Hunt season, Brian Hughes broke Richard Johnson's stranglehold of the Jump Jockeys Championship, but could there be a change at the top this season?
Hopefully racing will keep going through the winter months because we could see quite a tussle to see who wins in 20/21. Hughes had already chalked up an incredible 233 rides with 37 winners, almost a hundred more rides than his current nearest pursuer, Paddy Brennan who is just 3 winners adrift of Hughes.
Harry Cobden is currently 5 off the lead, and of course rides for the all powerful Paul Nicholls stable and Harry's strike rate of 26% is impressive. From a financial viewpoint, if you had backed Paddy Brennan on all his mounts this season you would be showing a profit of almost £43 to a level £1 stake.
Previous champion Richard Johnson cannot be ruled out, although he's currently 13 adrift of the leader and is currently showing an awful 12% strike rate.
The odds would suggest that Brian Hughes work rate will prevail, currently he is 4/6 favourite with Skybet with Cobden and Johnson both at 9/4. Paddy Brennan although pushing Hughes all the way is a 25/1 shot and likely to focus on his superb partnership with Fergal O'Brien rather than chasing winners all over the UK.
Good to see young Jonjo O'Neill Jr in the top 6 (surely a future champion?) and marketing dream Bryony Frost is currently showing a profit of over £73 on all rides!
Sadly, injury is never far away from these incredibly brave sporting stars so anything could happen.
Doug Woodward
doug@recgc.com
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Hopefully racing will keep going through the winter months because we could see quite a tussle to see who wins in 20/21. Hughes had already chalked up an incredible 233 rides with 37 winners, almost a hundred more rides than his current nearest pursuer, Paddy Brennan who is just 3 winners adrift of Hughes.
Harry Cobden is currently 5 off the lead, and of course rides for the all powerful Paul Nicholls stable and Harry's strike rate of 26% is impressive. From a financial viewpoint, if you had backed Paddy Brennan on all his mounts this season you would be showing a profit of almost £43 to a level £1 stake.
Previous champion Richard Johnson cannot be ruled out, although he's currently 13 adrift of the leader and is currently showing an awful 12% strike rate.
The odds would suggest that Brian Hughes work rate will prevail, currently he is 4/6 favourite with Skybet with Cobden and Johnson both at 9/4. Paddy Brennan although pushing Hughes all the way is a 25/1 shot and likely to focus on his superb partnership with Fergal O'Brien rather than chasing winners all over the UK.
Good to see young Jonjo O'Neill Jr in the top 6 (surely a future champion?) and marketing dream Bryony Frost is currently showing a profit of over £73 on all rides!
Sadly, injury is never far away from these incredibly brave sporting stars so anything could happen.
Doug Woodward
doug@recgc.com