David Bass

What sets Bass apart is his record in the biggest races. Five top-level wins in a four-year career is genuinely impressive — these are the races that attract the best horses in training, the ones every jockey wants on their CV. He has won at Cheltenham, the most famous jumps venue in the world, as well as Huntingdon and Ascot, and most recently landed a Class 1 victory at Doncaster in January 2026. Winning at that level at different tracks tells you he is not a specialist who only clicks under specific conditions — he delivers when it matters, wherever he is sent.

His most productive partnership is with trainer Charlie Longsdon, for whom Bass has ridden 6 winners from 58 races together — roughly 1 in every 10. That might sound modest, but sustained partnerships at that level across a large number of rides represent real trust between a yard and a jockey. Longsdon clearly keeps coming back to him, and Bass keeps delivering enough to justify it. In a sport where a good jockey-trainer relationship can define careers, that consistency matters more than the raw numbers suggest.