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ChristopheSoumillon
Four Prix du Jockey Club, ten French champion jockey titles and 4000 career wins are the spine of Christophe Soumillon's Flat racing career.
Soumillon at a glance
Christophe Soumillon's honours list covers the championship events of French Flat racing: four Prix du Jockey Club, plus the Grand Prix de Paris, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the Prix Royal-Oak. Ten French champion jockey titles, spread between 2003 and 2018, sit behind those big-race days, and a Prix de Diane in 2025 shows the Classic winners have kept coming.
Today he is riding through the 2026 Flat season, with a career total of 4000 wins behind him and a long list of high-profile partners that includes Zarkava, Dalakhani, Hurricane Run and Viva Pataca. At 45, the Belgian jockey is still active in Flat racing, where the champions he has partnered show the level he has operated at.
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He is 45, having been born on 4 June 1981.
A Belgian Flat jockey born in Schaerbeek, with a riding career that has spanned several decades of racing.
The Belgian rider has 4000 wins to his name across his Flat racing career.
Soumillon came into the world on 4 June 1981, in Schaerbeek, Belgium.
His major successes include three runnings of the Prix de Diane and several French flat racing Champion Jockey titles. He has also partnered leading horses including Zarkava and Dalakhani.