Mr Jonjo O'Neill

Career: jockey and racehorse trainer; nat hunt jockey 1969-87, winner 901 races, champion jockey 1977-78 (winner record 149 races) and 1979-80; winner: Cheltenham Gold Cup 1979 and 1986, Champion Hurdle 1980 and 1984, Coral Welsh Nat 2002 (with Mini Sensation), Irish Grand Nat 2007 (with Butler's Cabin), English Grand Nat 2010 (with Don't Push It); trainer 1987-, trained over 600 winners incl Gipsy Fiddler (Windsor Castle Stakes Royal Ascot) and winners at Cheltenham Nat Hunt Festival, Aintree Festival and Punchestown; trained 17 winners at Cheltenham Nat Hunt Festival incl: Danny Conners, Front Line, Master Tern, Rith Dubh, Inching Closer, Sudden Shock, Spectroscope, Creon, Native Emperor, Iris's Gift, Black Jack Ketchum, Butler's Cabin, Wichita Lineman, Drombeag, Albertas Run; trained 19 winners at Aintree Festival incl: Radiation, Sudden Shock, Quazar, Carbury Cross, Intersky Falcon, Master Tern, Clan Royal, Iris's Gift (twice), Classic Native, Rhinestone Cowboy, Black Jack Ketchum, Refinement, Exotic Dancer, Two Miles West, Albertas Run, Sunnyhill Boy, Don't Push It; three winners at Punchestown: Quazar, Predator, Refinement; Ireland's People of the Year Award 1986