Kevin Darley


Kevin Darley is an English retired jockey, and a co-president of the Jockeys' Association of Great Britain. He was British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1978 with 70 wins and Champion Jockey in 2000 with 155 wins. He also won the Lester Award for Flat Jockey of the Year in 2000, and won the Lester Special Recognition Award in 1997 and 2007.
He was associated with a number of trainers including Mark Johnston, for whom he won the English 1,000 Guineas, Irish 1,000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes on Attraction. He also won the St Leger on Bollin Eric and French Derby on Celtic Swing.
Married with two daughters, he retired as a jockey in November 2007, after a disappointing year blighted by niggling injuries.

Statistics

Flat wins in Great Britain by year, from 1988
YearWinsRunsStrike rateTotal earnings
1988 38 508 7 £160,598
1989 70 581 12 £281,705
1990 83 612 14 £387,295
1991 66 576 11 £344,763
1992 91 569 16 £388,874
1993 144 829 17 £836,339
1994 154 946 16 £1,104,241
1995 148 913 16 £1,207,863
1996 113 867 13 £1,106,077
1997 128 841 15 £1,022,152
1998 94 734 13 £791,856
1999 118 855 14 £1,042,652
2000 155 997 16 £2,306,168
2001 161 984 16 £2,384,295
2002 113 800 14 £2,646,261
2003 125 871 14 £1,877,988
2004 85 822 10 £1,779,738
2005 100 723 14 £1,342,366
2006 75 604 12 £1,396,144
2007 62 530 12 £770,876

Major wins

Great Britain
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Canada
  • E. P. Taylor Stakes - - Fraulein
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France
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Germany
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Ireland
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Italy