David Bass

The standout number in Bass's CV is five Class 1 victories, the highest grade of race in Britain. Those wins have come at three of the most prestigious venues in the country — Cheltenham, Ascot, and Doncaster — and the most recent arrived on 24 January 2026 at Doncaster. Winning at that level once is an achievement; doing it five times across three iconic tracks suggests a jockey who does not just fill a ride but genuinely rises when the occasion demands it.

One of the more interesting patterns in Bass's record is what happens when the weather turns. On wet or muddy ground he wins 17% of his races — 8 wins from 48 rides, or roughly 1 in every 6. Compare that to his overall rate of 1 in 9, and you start to see a jockey who clearly has a feel for riding in the conditions that separate horses and riders who can handle the muck from those who cannot. On a rainy day at a British track, Bass is someone worth paying attention to.

His most productive working relationship has been with trainer Charlie Longsdon, with whom he has ridden 57 races and produced 6 winners — that same 1-in-9 rate that runs through his whole career. It is not a partnership defined by one explosive streak, but by steady reliability. Longsdon keeps putting Bass up, Bass keeps delivering at a consistent clip, and that kind of trust between a yard and a jockey is genuinely hard to build. Four years in, with five top-level wins already on the board and a clear edge in testing conditions, Bass looks like a jockey still moving in the right direction.