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
Jerry Lambert (jockey) Park Racetrack, Lambert and Convenience won by a head over the favored Typecast. One week later, Lambert rode Typecast to victory over Shoemaker and Cougar in the Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap. During his career, Lambert won 54 stakes races at Hollywood Park Racetrack, 30 stakes races at Del Mar Racetrack and 42 stakes races at Santa Anita Park In 1971, Lambert was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, given to the thoroughbred jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack. Retired, in later years Lambert helped break horses for