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Sam Twiston-Davies
_Sam_T-D_Hello_Bud_Aintree_11_Nov_2012_(cropped-J1).jpg) Sam Twiston-Davies (born 15 October 1992) is a British National Hunt racing jockey who has multiple Grade 1 and Cheltenham Festival wins to his name. BackgroundTwiston-Davies comes from a racing background. His father is trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies and his mother is a former point-to-point rider.[1] Younger brother William Twiston-Davies is also a former jockey.[2] Twiston Davies grew up in Naunton, Gloucestershire and attended The Cotswold School.[3] As a sixteen-year-old amateur rider, Twiston-Davies rode Baby Run, trained by his father, into third place in the Foxhunter Chase at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival. The following year the pair won the race.[4] In April 2010, he was granted special dispensation by the British Horseracing Authority to ride in the Grand National, although he was one win short of the 15 required to qualify for the race.[5] He finished fifth on Hello Bud, trained by his father.[6] Professional jockeyIn the 2010/11 season he won the Conditional Jockeys championship. His first century was in the 2013/14 season when he had 115 winners from 774 rides. Paul Nicholls announced on 28 April 2014 that Sam would be his principal jockey in the 2014/15 season.[7] In the 2015 Cheltenham Festival he had a day two double, the Queen Mother Champion Chase with Dodging Bullets and with Aux Ptits Soins in the Coral Cup. In 2016 he had double on day one of the Cheltenham Festival with wins in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle and Champion Bumper. On Friday he won the Grand Annual Chase for his third win at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival. In April 2016 he won the Scottish Grand National on Vincente. In April 2017 he won the Scottish Grand National again on Vincente. In May 2018 Sam announced he would become freelance.[8] In 2023 he rode well on The Real Whacker and in turn won the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase (Grade 1) race. Cheltenham Festival winners
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