Nico De Boinville: Profile, Earnings, Height & Horses

The 2025 Cheltenham Festival saw Nico de Boinville add just one winner to his list of Festival triumphs, with Jango Baie taking the honours in the Arkle Chase.

Age: 35

Height: 6"3

Wins: 783

Cheltenham Festival wins: 18

Total winnings: £10,883,100

About Nico De Boinville

De Boinville is a National Hunt jockey, although he did not come from a racing background, unlike some of his colleagues in the weighing room.

His father was an insurance broker, but his racing obsession soon got the better of him, and he admitted in the past that he missed some school lessons to watch Best Mate.

De Boinville eventually pushed himself into racing full-time and spent time in France with UK ex-pat Richard Gibson before he eventually arrived at Henderson's Seven Barrows stable.

AP McCoy and Barry Geraghty were some of Henderson's main riders, giving De Boinville little hope of breaking into the picture. After just 30 rides between 2009 and 2012, he handed in his notice and planned to return to France.

His notice was rejected, and the rest, as they say, is history. He has since ridden numerous winners across the UK in multiple Grade 1 races, while also tasting victory in Ireland and the United States.

Nico De Boinville Height

Nico De Boinville is 6ft 3" tall.

Nico De Boinville Achievements

As Henderson's stable jockey, De Boinville has the pleasure of riding some of the finest horses in the UK.

After being a professional jockey for just over a year, De Boinville won the 2015 Cheltenham Gold Cup aboard crack novice Coneygree for trainer Mark Bradstock. 

Since then, De Boinville has partnered horses such as Altior, Shishkin, Sprinter Sacre and Might Bite to his total of 17 victories at the Cheltenham Festival.

Hurdling superstar Constitution Hill has also been ridden to victory in all 10 of his wins under rules by De Boinville.

Nico De Boinville Associated Trainers

De Boinville is the stable jockey of legendary trainer Henderson, so gets the luxury of being supported by one of the best in the business.

That means that the 35-year-old gets to ride all of Henderson’s stable stars and gets the choice when the trainer has one or more declared in a race.

De Boinville’s success means he is a jockey in high demand and, as a result, when Henderson doesn’t have a runner in a selected race he is able to pick up a spare mount.

That is why he is seen regularly riding for Ben Pauling and has also struck up excellent partnerships with the likes of Mark Bradstock, Tom Lacey and Hughie Morrison amongst others.

Nico De Boinville Significant Horses

Thanks to Henderson's star-studded stable, De Boinville has won 16 races as a jockey at the Cheltenham Festival.

His first came aboard Whisper in the Coral Cup in 2014, but 12 months later he put himself firmly on the map.

He guided Coneygree to glory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup as Mark and Sara Bradstock's runner became the first novice in four decades to win the Blue Riband.

In 2016, he helped Sprinter Sacre win the Queen Mother Champion Chase and Altior win the Supreme Novices' Hurdle.

He won the Queen Mother twice with Altior, while they also teamed up to win the Arkle in 2017, four years before he won the race with Shishkin.

His last win at the Festival at Prestbury Park came in 2023, when he partnered Constitution Hill to glory in the Champion Hurdle.