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
Frank Robinson (jockey) won four of the six races on an afternoon card at Blue Bonnets Raceway. In what the "New York Times" described as a phenomenal performance, in 1916 Frank Robinson was the leading jockey in the United States with 178 wins as well as the leading jockey in Canada with 129 wins. In 1917 he was second to Willie Crump in wins but led all American jockeys in earnings with $148,057. On April 3, 1917 Robinson won four races on a single card at Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland. For American-born trainer Barry Littlefield and the preeminent owner in Canada,