Simon Torrens

The highlight of those 95 career winners is a Class 1 victory at Cheltenham — the sport's most famous and unforgiving venue, where the cream genuinely rises and average riders get found out. One win there means more than a dozen at smaller tracks, and it marks Torrens as someone who can step up and deliver when the occasion demands it.

His most regular partnership is with trainer P J Rothwell, where he has ridden 93 times for 5 winners. That's a win rate of roughly 1 in every 19 — modest on paper — but these long-standing yard relationships are about trust and communication as much as results, and 93 rides in a single partnership speaks to real loyalty on both sides.

Where Torrens genuinely stands out is in the conditions most riders dread. On very wet or muddy ground, he wins 1 in every 7 races — 6 wins from 42 rides, double his overall rate. Some jockeys are passengers in testing conditions; Torrens looks like he's in his element. Similarly, at Ballinrobe he has won 3 from just 10 rides, a 30% win rate at a track where most jockeys would be happy to hit 15%. When he knows a track well, he exploits that knowledge.

And right now, he's as sharp as he's been all season. Two winners from 9 rides in the last fortnight puts him at a 22% win rate over that stretch — three times his seasonal average. Form like that doesn't always last, but it's the kind of run that gets people paying attention. At 95 career winners and still improving year on year, Torrens looks like a jockey who still has his best days ahead of him.