Richard Hughes (jockey) a change in the rules regarding horse welfare. On 13 October 2011, it was announced that Hughes was giving up his racing licence and quitting the sport out of protest at the ban. Hughes did not follow up on this threat and on 15 October 2012 he equaled Frankie Dettori's record of winning seven races in a single meeting by winning seven out of eight races at Windsor Racecourse. The following month, he claimed his first British flat racing Champion Jockey title with 172 winners over the season. In May 2013, after a long wait, he won his first British
Tony Vega (jockey) a season, and breaking Jimmy Edwards record of 123 victories in a season established during an extended meet in 1975. Vega became the first apprentice jockey ever to win Monmouth's riding title and, the first jockey to win 100 races in a single meet. Vega also won six races in a day on May 18, 1983 (five wins at Monmouth and one at Atlantic City Race Course later that night, and five races in a day twice in 1983. He was one of the first ever to do so. Vega also won three or more races in a day at