Jude Fernandes

His most established relationship is with the yard run by Gary and Josh Moore, where he has partnered 19 times for 1 winner. That is a 5% win rate — about 1 in every 19 rides — which is modest, but the fact that a trainer keeps putting a young jockey back up is itself a signal of trust. Trainers with horses to place have options, and repeat bookings mean something.

Fernandes is only three years into a career that demands patience above almost everything else. Two winners in a season is not a headline number, but it represents real racecourse experience being banked, and the jockeys who are still riding in ten years are usually the ones who kept showing up during the quiet spells.