Brendan Powell

His overall numbers tell the story of a busy, reliable professional. In the last 12 months he has ridden 486 times and won 52 of those races — that's roughly 1 in every 9, or an 11% win rate. It's a slight dip from the 13% he was hitting a year ago, but 486 rides in a season means trainers trust him with their horses constantly, and across a four-year career he has already racked up 244 winners. That is a serious body of work for someone still early in their career.

The most important relationship in Powell's professional life right now is with trainer Joe Tizzard. Together they have combined for 38 winners from 273 rides — a 14% win rate, meaning they find the winner together roughly 1 in every 7 times they go to the races. That is meaningfully better than his overall average, which tells you something: this is a partnership where horse and jockey knowledge has built up over time, and where Tizzard clearly rates Powell enough to keep putting him up. Nearly a third of all his career wins have come through that yard.

On a smaller scale, Powell has developed something of a stranglehold at Carlisle, where he has won 3 races from just 7 runners. Three from seven might not sound like a headline, but winning almost half your races at any track is the kind of number that makes trainers with horses entered there pick up the phone.

His partnership with Loustic Du Chatel — one win from four races together — is more modest, but the very fact it gets counted among his notable combinations suggests Powell is someone who builds meaningful, repeat relationships with the horses he rides rather than simply taking whatever spare mounts come his way. At 244 career winners and still only four years in, the trajectory here looks very promising indeed.