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
William Higgs (jockey) In 1907, he finished with 146 winners from 732 rides, a near 20% strike rate. In 1911 he scored a succession of top class victories on Darling's stayer, Willonyx, winning the Chester Cup, Ascot Gold Cup, Jockey Club Cup and Cesarewitch. He also won the 1913 Doncaster Cup on Long Set. Higgs later became a trainer and developed Blacklands Stud in Wiltshire. In 1999, he was ranked the 28th greatest flat jockey of the 20th century by the Racing Post. Great Britain William Higgs (jockey) William Arnold "Billy" Higgs (1880 - 1958) was a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, trainer, owner