Richard Dunwoody

Richard Dunwoody is a retired British National Hunt jockey, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1964, who became three times British Champion Jockey. He was the only jockey of his generation to win the Grand National, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle. His Grand National wins came on West Tip in 1986 and Miinnehoma in 1994, he took the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Charter Party and the Champion Hurdle on Kribensis, and he won the King George VI Chase four times, twice on Desert Orchid. He received the Lester Award for jump jockey of the year five times and retired in 1999 holding the record for career winners, 1874, until Tony McCoy passed it in 2002. Dunwoody was appointed MBE in 1993 and later raised money for charity through long treks, including a walk to the South Pole in 2008 and across Japan in 2017.