Hector Crouch

The big days have come too. Crouch has won 14 top-level races — the very best races in Britain — at some of the sport's most celebrated venues: Newmarket, Sandown Park, and Goodwood. Most recently, he landed back-to-back top-level wins at Newmarket on consecutive days, the 30th and 31st of October 2025, followed by another at Pontefract in June. Winning one of the best races in Britain is a career landmark for most jockeys. Doing it twice in two days at the same track suggests someone operating at genuine peak form.

His most reliable working relationship is with trainer Ralph Beckett, a yard with a strong record of producing quality horses. Together they have struck 36 wins from 196 races — winning roughly 1 in every 5 — which is a better rate than Crouch's overall average and tells you these two genuinely bring out the best in each other. When Beckett needs a big result, Crouch is clearly the man he trusts.

There is one small but striking detail buried in his numbers: on very dry, fast ground, Crouch has won 2 of just 3 races — two wins from three, which is about as close to flawless as racing statistics get. Three races is too small a sample to build a grand theory on, but it hints at a jockey who either thrives in those conditions himself or simply gets better horses under him when the ground hardens in summer. Either way, it is worth watching.

At only four years into his career, Crouch already has the kind of CV — 436 winners, 14 top-level victories, a thriving partnership with one of Britain's leading trainers — that most jockeys spend a decade building. He looks like someone still very much on the way up.