With the calendar now hitting mid-July there is plenty of top-class racing on the horizon but which jockeys are the ones worth siding with in the coming weeks?
A glance at the top of the season winner’s list sees Brazilian Silvestre de Sousa top of the tree and by some distance.
The 36-year-old has 118 winners from 526 outings at a solid strike rate of 22.43%, with 81 second-place finishes and 58 thirds.
He has enjoyed a decent last fortnight with 14 winners and has many options in the coming days, with meetings at York, Ascot and Newmarket.
Luke Morris sits second in the standings and has reached triple figures with 101 winners to date.
He has had to work hard for them, however, with more than 750 rides under his belt this term and a win percentage of less than 14.
But, along with Daniel Tudhope, he has bagged 12 winners in the past 14 days and is clearly a man in form with big meetings coming up.
Although Royal Ascot has come and gone, there is still the King George weekend at the Berkshire track plus the Goodwood Festival and York’s Ebor meeting to look forward to and Adam Kirby will be one to watch out for, with 85 winners already in the current campaign.
But again, his strike rate is below 17% while Ryan Moore, who has 72 winners to his name, can boast a winning percentage of nearly 25.
The 33-year-old Englishman is a big-race performer, winning the Coronation Stakes on Winter while partnering Caravaggio to Commonwealth Cup glory at the same meeting.
His partnership with Aidan O’Brien has been a successful one and the three-time Champion Jockey looks set to partner another of the Irish handler’s stars when Clemmie lines up in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at the weekend.
The two-year-old obliged at the Curragh earlier this month and has every chance of making it a double.
If you fancy his chances then you may wish to take advantage of this Bonus Code with Bet 365 before staking a bet.
Frankie Dettori may not have ridden as many winners as some of his rivals but sits fifth in the season stats when it comes to strike rate.
The Italian legend has enjoyed 132 outings and punters who follow him will have collected on exactly a quarter of those races.
Tadhg O’Shea tops that category with a winning percentage of 28 but has only raced 25 times to date and that record is sure to dip the more he is seen on the track.
William Buick is enjoying another productive season, with 49 winners from 221 runs and has struck eight times in the past 14 days.
A winner of Ascot’s King Edward VII Stakes with Permian and the Queen Anne Stakes on board Ribchester, he could reunite with the excellent Wuheida in Newmarket’s Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes on Saturday.
Finally, another Italian is enjoying himself in 2017, with Andrea Atzeni winning more than a fifth of his starts but with a strike rate approaching 40 over the past 14 days.
He is in red-hot form and looks set to add to his 51 winners at Headquarters later this week.
