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
Willie Martinez (jockey) credit. Martinez holds the record for Turfway riding titles with nine and has won 36 stakes races at the track, second only to Pat Day as the track's all-time stakes leader. His nine titles at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky are more than any other jockey in the track's history; also at Turfway Park, Martinez rode seven winners on July 6, 1993. Through March 2018 Martinez had more than 3,360 career wins, purse earnings nearing $80 million, and 150 stakes wins. Among his 38 graded stakes wins are the 2006 New Orleans Handicap (G2) and Donn Handicap (G1) with Brass