Brian Hughes Booked Rides For Today & Tomorrow
Brian Hughes is a three-time British Champion jumps jockey, with his work ethic and skill having transformed him from journeyman jockey to a prolific winner in recent years. Hughes has proved he is willing to go anywhere in the country in search of winners, something that can make it difficult to know where he may be lining up on any given day and get prices at the best betting sites.
Brian Hughes Rides
Fear not, though, we have got you covered on this dedicated page, where you can find all of the information on Brian Hughes’ rides today. The page will also show Brian Hughes' booked rides for tomorrow, and any rides he may be booked for in the future. If that wasn’t enough, we also provide live updated prices on all of his mounts from the best horse racing betting sites and betting apps from across the UK.
Brian Hughes Rides Today
If you need to know where Brian Hughes is riding today and which horses he is due to partner with, this is the section to find out. Brian Hughes rides predominantly in the north of the UK, but he has also shown his willingness to travel far and wide in search of winners. Keep a close eye here to keep up to date.
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Brian Hughes Rides
As stated above, Brian Hughes rides at a variety of tracks throughout the week, so where he is due to ride tomorrow can be a tricky thing to keep track of. That’s what is great about this section, as all of the information on his whereabouts are available as soon as declarations are confirmed. We also have all available prices from top UK betting sites and Apple Pay betting sites in the UK, as well as plenty of free bet offers.
Brian Hughes Future Rides
Here we have any horses that Brian Hughes is booked to ride in future races throughout the season. Obviously, prices are not always available, but there can be ante post horse racing betting for the bigger races, so keep a close eye to get the best early prices available.
Predicting Brian Hughes' Rides in Big Races
Brian Hughes has been at the top of his game for several years. He is regularly booked by the best trainers and therefore steers a number of horses to victory. He has been crowned British jump racing Champion Jockey on three occasions, starting in 2019-20. He rode 141 winners that year and has continued to be prolific.
Based largely in the north of England, Hughes reached the 1,000-winner mark over jumps in Britain and Ireland in 2019. The 2021-22 season was the jockey’s most successful yet with more than 200 winners in a season. The jockeys’ title was landed at the end of that campaign and then retained a year later.
Hughes is a popular jockey to follow and this page is the best place to track all his horses. You can see at a glance what he is riding on a daily basis. We’ll bring you the latest information along with the best odds. When you find a selection you want to back, you can take the available price and head to the top bookie in order to bet on the Brian Hughes horse.
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Brian Hughes Rides at the Cheltenham Festival
Although Brian Hughes has enjoyed a hugely successful career as a jockey, he only has four Cheltenham Festival winners to his name at the time of writing. The first of these came on Hawk High in the 2014 Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle. Two years later, he was back in the winners’ enclosure when scoring in the Centenary Novices' Handicap Chase on Ballyalton.
In 2018, he was successful in exactly the same race when obliging on Mister Whitaker. Hughes then had to wait a full seven years before proving successful at the meeting. In 2025, he was able to steer Doddiethegreat to success in the Pertemps Network Final. Because he doesn’t ride for one of the bigger trainers, he is often used as a spare rider at the Festival for bigger yards.
Brian Hughes Rides at the Grand National
Brian Hughes has never won the Grand National, but he’s nearly always given a ride in the Aintree showdown. In the 2025 race, he was on board 33/1 shot Grangeclare West for Willie Mullins. The horse outran his odds to finish third, with the jockey helping to make it a 1-2-3 for the Irish trainer. It’s worth looking out for future rides at Aintree, with Hughes having won the Top Novices’ Hurdle at the meeting on board Cyrus Darius in 2015.
Brian Hughes Rides at the King George
Hughes has ridden horses in several renewals of the King George VI Chase. He had a near-miss in the 2020 race on board Waiting Patiently. Having won the Ascot Chase on board the same horse three years previously, he then gave him a tremendous spin at Kempton Park when finishing second behind Frodon. However, the jockey being based in the north means that Grade 1 successes are harder to come by.
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Brian Hughes Biography
Brian Hughes was born on the 27th June 1985 in Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. He grew up around horses, which his father would keep in the fields around his house. Hughes’ only interest in life was to become a jockey, and after leaving school when he finished his GCSEs, he made the move to Co Kildare to join the RACE Academy - a place that had been churning out future top-level jockeys for some time.
Part of the course at RACE allows future apprentices to join a yard to ride out in, in the mornings, and Hughes was sent to learn his trade with legendary trainer Kevin Prendergast. Hughes would stay at Prendergast’s yard for four years and had his first rides on the track for the Curragh trainer. Having to battle with weight problems as he matured, Hughes was forced into the decision to move away from riding on the flat and instead turned his attention to jump racing. It was a decision that would change his life forever.
Making the move across the Irish Sea, Hughes joined the hugely successful yard of Durham trainer Howard Johnston. This was the start of his love affair with the north of England, somewhere that he set up camp for his National Hunt career, and a place he remains to this day. Johnston’s decision to bring in Paddy Brennan as stable jockey was a setback for Hughes, and he made the brave decision of becoming a freelance jockey throughout the north of England. It proved to be a decision well made, however, with plenty of support coming from owners and trainers, with his popularity spreading further north into the Scottish racing scene.
Hughes became a journeyman jockey of sorts, showing incredible commitment to his craft by travelling all over to pick up rides wherever they became available. It was trainer Donald McCain who eventually took advantage of Hughes’ talent, with the pair combining for many victories. This success resulted in him becoming the first-choice jockey to the successful trainer.
With the likes of AP McCoy and then Richard Johnson holding a monopoly on the champion jockey’s title, it seemed that Hughes was destined to remain as a mid-level jockey, just keeping the wheels slowly turning on his stuttering career. That would all change with the retirement of McCoy, as Hughes stepped up his efforts to move to the next level and battle Johnson and the likes of Sam Twiston-Davies and Harry Skelton for the title of champion jockey. Hughes eventually achieved his long-time dream of winning the title when winning 141 races in the 2019-20 season. He would lose his title the following season to Harry Skelton but reclaimed it in 2021-22, becoming only the fifth jockey to win 200 races in a season.
Despite all of his success, Brian Hughes continues to be overlooked when it comes to the big festivals. This is, in part, due to his northern trainers and owners not targeting the big meetings down south, but it is still incredible that his services are not used by more trainers when it comes to festival time, particularly at Cheltenham.
If he continues to ride 200+ winners every season, it will be hard for the top trainers to keep overlooking the winning machine’s obvious top-level ability.
Brian Hughes Booked Rides FAQs
How many winners has Brian Hughes had this season?
The 2022-23 season is still very much in its infancy, but Champion Jockey, Brian Hughes, has already amassed an incredible 92 winners to date. At this current rate, reaching 200 winners for the second season running is very much on the cards.