Scottish-born Danny Tudhope is one of the most established riders in the weighing room and has made a habit of winning in partnership with the David O'Meara team.
Tudhope has won major races in Britain, Europe and beyond and will be hoping for more success at Royal Ascot this summer.
Tudhope grew up in Irvine in Ayrshire and did so in a family with no racing connections.
Indeed, his love of the horse was a slow burner and it wasn't until a careers advisor pointed him in the right direction that he considered life as a jockey at all.
After a Northern Racing college introduction, he regularly rode around ten horses every morning at Declan Carroll's Malton stable.
Having spent plenty time working with young horses, he put his new-found skills into practice on the racecourse, riding out his claim in two-and-a-half years.
With his claim gone, there was an inevitable dip in getting rides and he says a chance conversation brought him to what has proved the dream job as fellow rider Silvestre De Sousa urged him to come and ride out at O'Meara's yard. That, said Tudhope years later, was 'the start of it all for me'.
Though he'd ridden his first winner in 2004, Tudhope's career really started to go places once he was in situ at O'Meara's base in Upper Helmsley near York.
In 2011, he won his first group race, the Group 2 Henry II Stakes on Blue Bajan, who also carried him to finish second in a Yorkshire Cup and third in the Goodwood Cup.
Big race successes continued to flow, with Custom Cut one of his loyal partners, before a top-level breakthrough.
In the autumn of 2014, he won his first and second victories at Group 1 level, via the Haydock Sprint Cup on G Force and the Prix de l'Abbaye on Move In Time, both for his boss O'Meara.
By that stage he'd topped a century of winners in a calendar year (2013) and careered through the £1m in prize-money in a single year (2014).
In the summer of 2019, Tudhope enjoyed a four-race winning tally at Royal Ascot, including Lord Glitters in the Group 1 Queen Anne for O'Meara.
Move Swiftly won the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes for trainer William Haggas, while he won the Listed Wolferton Stakes on Addeybb for the same trainer before completing his four-timer on 25/1 chance Space Traveller for the Richard Fahey team in the Jersey Stakes as the rider labelled it an 'amazing week' at the biggest Flat meeting of them all.
His Group 1 wins also include that Haydock Sprint Cup on G Force, the Abbaye on Move In Time and a trio in Ireland via the Matron Stakes on Laurens and Pretty Polly Stakes on Urban Fox (both 2018) and the Moyglare Stud Stakes on Fallen Angel in 2023.
In 2021 he won the Jebel Hatta at Meydan on Lord Glitters for O'Meara while successes in the Arlington Million on Mondialiste in 2016 and the Turf Mile at Keeneland on Suedois in 2017 have also come for his boss.
Tudhope's exact career earnings are unknown, but he's helped his connections pocket more than £8m in prize money in Britain and Ireland alone over the last five seasons.
Now more than a decade since his association with O'Meara began, Tudhope says the partnership is as strong as ever and built on trust.
"Being an ex-jockey, he realises that when you're out on the track it's down to you," Tudhope told The Mirror. "If I get it wrong, he tells me. He's not one for lots of instructions and lets you use your initiative."
In early 2024, it was noted that Tudhope was beginning to get more rides for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin, as one of the back-ups for champion jockey William Buick.
Tudhope had nine rides for Appleby in 2023 and they resulted in three winners, including a Listed victory on Romantic Style at Newmarket in November, and will be hoping that source can continue to provide further opportunities.