How many winners has Harry Cobden ridden in 2024/25?

At the time of writing, Harry Cobden is the reigning British Champion Jump Jockey, having secured his maiden jockeys’ title courtesy of a double at Chepstow on the penultimate day of the 2023/24 National Hunt season, which meant that he could not be caught by his nearest rival, Sean Bowen. Cobden, 25, has been employed by Paul Nicholls at Manor Farm Stables in Ditcheat, Somerset for over a decade, winning the Conditional Jockeys’ Championship in 2016/17 and becoming stable jockey to the now 14-time British Champion Jump Trainer immediately prior to the start of the 2018/19 National Hunt season.

The 2024/25 National Hunt season began on May 4, 2024 and Cobden made a steady start to the new campaign, partnering 18 winners by the second half of July. However, on July 21, he sustained what was initially believed to be a minor knee injury when unseated from Kick Up A Storm, trained by Nicholls, in a handicap hurdle at Stratford. In fact, rather than being sidelined for two or three weeks, as originally anticipated, a torn ligament kept him off the racecourse until October 3. Immediately prior to his return to the saddle, he said, “I don’t want to do too much too early. It’s a long year, and when you’ve not ridden in a race for eight weeks you don’t want to go back into it riding five or six horses a day.”

Cobden returned to action with a winner, Captain Marvellous, trained by Jane Williams, at Warwick and has since ridden another, Jumping Susie, trained by John McConnell, at Kelso on October 6. He currently lies tenth in the Jump Jockeys’ Championship, having ridden 20 winners from 99 rides, at a strike rate of 20%, in 2024/25 so far.