Callum Bewley

This season tells the clearest version of that story. Bewley has ridden 18 winners from 199 rides, winning roughly 1 in every 11 races — that may not sound headline-grabbing, but it represents a genuine step forward. Last year he was winning 1 in every 20. Doubling your win rate in a single season is not a small thing; it suggests a jockey who is riding with more confidence, getting better horses beneath him, and converting when it matters.

What really stands out, though, is where some of those wins have come. Bewley has won three of the top-level races in Britain during his career — Class 1 events, the kind that attract the best horses and carry the most prestige. Two of those came in the winter of 2025, at Newcastle on 29 November and at Wetherby on Boxing Day. Wetherby on 26 December is one of the most watched days in the jumping calendar, the sort of afternoon when living rooms across the country have the racing on in the background. Winning there, at that level, is a statement.

His most regular partnership is with trainer Daragh Bourke's yard, where he has ridden 36 times and won twice — 1 win from every 18 rides together. That is a modest return on paper, but the sheer volume of rides suggests Bourke trusts him with the horses, and in racing, consistent bookings from a trainer are often the clearest sign that a jockey is doing things right even when the winners are not coming.

At 53 career winners and still only four years in, Bewley sits in that interesting middle ground — past the fragile early stage, not yet at the level where his name appears at the top of every racecard, but clearly moving in one direction. The Class 1 wins suggest he has already shown he can handle the pressure of a big occasion. The question now is simply how often those occasions come his way.