The 2017 British Flat Jockeys Championship was the competition to find the

British flat racing Champion Jockey The Champion Jockey of flat racing in Great Britain is the jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season. The list below shows the Champion Jockey and the number of winners for each year since 1840. The seasonal record of jockeys' ...

, the winningmost jockey in

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during the peak period of the British

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season from the start of the Guineas Meeting on Saturday 6 May to

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on Saturday 21 October 2017. It was won by

Silvestre de Sousa Silvestre de Sousa (born 31 December 1980 in São Francisco do Maranhão, Brazil) is a Brazilian flat racing jockey based in Britain. He was champion jockey of Britain in 2015, with 132 winners, and again in 2017 and 2018. Childhood and early ...

for the second time. He finished with 155 winners in the qualifying period, ahead of the reigning champion,

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. 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

References

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