Kieran Shoemark

The headline number in his career is 21 top-level wins — the kind of races where the best horses in the country, sometimes Europe, line up against each other. He has landed those at the sport's most prestigious venues: Newmarket, Doncaster, and Ascot. Just in the months of June and September and October 2025 he won three of those top-level races, including two at Ascot alone. Winning at that level once is a big day; doing it three times in a few months suggests a jockey who raises his game when it counts most.

His most consistent working relationship is with trainer Ed Walker. Across 239 rides together they have combined for 38 wins — that is 16 wins for every 100 rides, or roughly 2 in every 12 races. In a sport where trainers have dozens of riders to choose from, that kind of sustained partnership speaks to genuine mutual trust. Shoemark also has a neat record at Epsom Downs, one of the most technically demanding tracks in the country with its sharp turns and steep camber — 3 winners from just 11 rides there is the sort of ratio that makes trainers pay attention when they have a runner at the track.

The one honest note to add is that his overall win rate has dipped this season — from 16 per cent last year down to 12 per cent, or from about 1 in 6 to 1 in 9. That is worth watching, though it is not unusual for a jockey's numbers to fluctuate with the quality or quantity of rides available in any given spell. His record at the top level shows the ability is very much there. One partnership that has not clicked yet is with Golden Brown — three races together and no wins so far, which stands out as unfinished business in an otherwise strong book of form.