Photograph of the champion jockey, Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 ? 10 November 1986), and his wife, previously Miss Margaret Winckle. He was an English jockey and the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times. He is often considered the world's greatest jockey ever and he remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. The couple married in the spring of 1927 but Richards wanted to keep it a secret until he had ridden his 100th winner that season. The 100th winner came at York, when he won the Convivial Plate on Lord Ellesmere's Tiffin.