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Billy Loughnane Sets 21st‑Century Record With 222 Winners on New Year’s Eve

The 19-year-old’s total sets the 21st‑century benchmark, with the all‑time 1947 record still higher.

Overview

  • He hit the mark at Lingfield aboard Invited in a mile handicap on his penultimate ride of the year.
  • The victory took him beyond Kieren Fallon’s 2003 tally of 221, while Sir Gordon Richards’ 269 in 1947 remains the British single‑year record.
  • The win also brought trainer George Boughey to his 100th winner of 2025, with the Middleham Park-owned three-year-old holding off Hitched.
  • Loughnane had drawn level with Fallon at Wolverhampton the previous evening after a late-December surge.
  • Earlier in December he became the first jockey to reach 200 British winners in 2025, setting up the year-end push for the record.