The 2017 British Flat Jockeys Championship was the competition to find the British flat racing Champion Jockey, the jockey with the most wins in Great Britain during the peak period of the British flat racing season from the start of the Guineas Meeting on Saturday 6 May to British Champions Day on Saturday 21 October 2017. It was won by Silvestre de Sousa for the second time. He finished with 155 winners in the qualifying period, ahead of the reigning champion, Jim Crowley. De Sousa had in fact passed 200 winners for the year at Lingfield on 18 October, and had effectively won the title many weeks before.
De Sousa was presented with award in a ceremony at Ascot. He said of the victory, "It's great to be here after a long season. I've worked really hard this year and I always wanted to win the title again and I finally did. For the last few weeks I've been very confident that no one could catch me. Whoever was in second and third, they were going to need to work twice as hard to catch me."
The Championship was sponsored by Stobart.
Final table RankJockeyWinsRidesStrike rateTotal prize money (£) 1 Silvestre De Sousa 155 854 18% 1,786,226 2 Jim Crowley 111 636 17% 4,652,559 3 Ryan Moore 105 452 23% 7,466,059 4 Daniel Tudhope 93 517 18% 1,337,497 5 James Doyle 89 416 21% 3,031,776 6 Luke Morris 82 717 11% 1,071,084 7 P. J. McDonald 80 550 15% 1,438,987 8 Joe Fanning 78 510 15% 954,582 9 Oisin Murphy 76 578 13% 2,079,196 10 Andrea Atzeni 75 412 18% 2,786,970 11 Paul Mulrennan 70 538 13% 652,115 12 Jamie Spencer 67 417 16% 1,036,101 13 Graham Lee 66 543 12% 621,988 14 William Buick 64 285 22% 2,723,475 15 David Probert 62 507 12% 756,001 16 Adam Kirby 61 424 14% 1,486,389 17 Paul Hanagan 58 520 11% 1,138,360 18 Harry Bentley 57 373 15% 978,820 19 Franny Norton 57 455 13% 814,939 20 Pat Cosgrave 56 373 15% 737,832 21 Dane O'Neill 53 341 16% 578,290 22 Richard Kingscote 53 429 12% 799,198 23 David Egan 53 448 12% 572,817 24 Josephine Gordon 53 480 11% 866,361 25 Kieran Shoemark 52 393 13% 592,073 26 Ben Curtis 51 420 12% 398,595 27 Tom Marquand 49 470 10% 587,040 28 Tony Hamilton 49 479 10% 511,429 29 David Allan 48 395 12% 756,027 30 Kevin Stott 47 302 16% 483,091 31 Sean Levey 47 381 12% 956,277 32 Phillip Makin 43 354 12% 414,761 33 Shane Kelly 42 427 10% 365,911 34 Fran Berry 42 487 9% 638,293 35 Tom Eaves 42 507 8% 548,227 36 George Wood 41 294 14% 530,582 37 James Sullivan 41 459 9% 619,409 38 Andrew Mullen 41 468 9% 372,481 39 Frankie Dettori 40 185 22% 4,441,849 40 Charles Bishop 40 281 14% 453,691 41 J F Egan 40 348 11% 414,400 42 Martin Harley 40 367 11% 650,016 43 Jason Hart 40 367 11% 319,527 44 Robert Winston 38 330 12% 746,330 45 Connor Beasley 35 386 9% 326,256 46 Hollie Doyle 31 269 12% 349,875 47 Martin Dwyer 31 336 9% 398,424 48 Liam Keniry 30 379 8% 202,049 49 Lewis Edmunds 29 244 12% 242,248 50 Dougie Costello 28 347 8% 248,188 51 Callum Rodriguez 27 191 14% 343,223 52 Edward Greatrex 27 203 13% 240,520 53 Martin Lane 27 207 13% 254,816 54 Jack Garritty 26 291 9% 207,887 55 Pat Dobbs 25 297 8% 403,367 56 Adam McNamara 24 224 11% 242,890 57 Hector Crouch 24 252 10% 161,655 58 Adam Beschizza 24 260 9% 164,451 59 Clifford Lee 23 187 12% 257,480 60 Rowan Scott 23 231 10% 183,428 61 Charlie Bennett 23 249 9% 163,315 62 Daniel Muscutt 23 252 9% 282,405 63 Joshua Bryan 22 174 13% 136,448 64 Joe Doyle 22 246 9% 202,432 65 Tom Queally 22 300 7% 737,251 66 Callum Shepherd 21 228 9% 150,277 67 Jack Mitchell 20 183 11% 208,606 68 Stevie Donohoe 20 335 6% 332,615 69 Phil Dennis 19 173 11% 113,774 70 Ben Robinson 19 185 10% 113,502 71 Nathan Evans 19 212 9% 165,734 72 Steve Drowne 19 217 9% 150,785 73 Jane Elliott 18 185 10% 106,562 74 Mitch Godwin 18 228 8% 119,263 75 David Nolan 18 242 7% 179,218 76 Georgia Cox 17 109 16% 160,412 77 Connor Murtagh 17 209 8% 203,011 78 Kieran O'Neill 17 282 6% 193,088 79 Manuel Fernandes 16 81 20% 79,838 80 Robert Tart 16 116 14% 315,032 81 Jamie Gormley 16 152 11% 191,153 82 Finley Marsh 16 159 10% 119,292 83 Timmy Murphy 16 197 8% 91,147 84 Fergus Sweeney 16 221 7% 160,884 85 Rob Hornby 16 262 6% 164,490 86 Sam James 15 174 9% 133,556 87 Barry McHugh 15 220 7% 392,891 88 Joey Haynes 15 223 7% 196,250 89 Sammy Jo Bell 14 149 9% 134,820 90 William Carson 14 210 7% 124,073 91 Rachel Richardson 14 230 6% 231,247 92 William Cox 13 111 12% 79,663 93 Sam Hitchcott 13 154 8% 121,734 94 Royston Ffrench 13 216 6% 132,325 95 Gerald Mosse 12 79 15% 243,332 96 Jimmy Quinn 12 190 6% 213,017 97 Cam Hardie 12 323 4% 147,359 98 Paddy Pilley 11 130 8% 87,064 99 Kieren Fox 11 136 8% 89,395 100 Shane Gray 11 204 5% 95,703
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