Paul Townend has won all four major prizes in National Hunt racing this season: the Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, and Grand National. He won the Grand National at Aintree aboard I Am Maximus last Saturday, completing Jump Racing's Holy Trinity (Grand National, Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle) in the same season for the second time in his career, having also won the Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle for the first time in 2024. Townend, 35, secured victories in the Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle on Lossiemouth and Gaelic Warrior, and won the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Il Etait Temps.
He has competed in 295 races this season, registering eight winners in Britain, with four of them being the big four in jump racing. Financially, Townend's basic riding fees amount to approximately £65,203 in Ireland and £7,300 in the UK, with a senior jump jockey fee in Britain set at £228. His estimated gross total earnings for the season thus far in Ireland and the UK stand at £385,000, and the total prize money he has earned for connections in Britain exceeds £2 million, with jockeys typically receiving roughly nine per cent of winning prize money and around four per cent of placed prize money.
6 million Punchestown festival looms ahead. It remains unknown how much Townend will earn in total for the 2025/26 season, including from Punchestown, or whether he will eclipse his earnings from this season as predicted, with the exact breakdown of his expenses also unclear.