ROLL OF HONOUR: 2017/18 NATIONAL HUNT SEASON
BRITAIN
Champion trainer
NICKY HENDERSON for the fifth time. His 141 winners netted £3,477,473 — £950,000 more than runner-up Paul Nicholls. Hard to see him not winning the new season, too.
Champion jockey
RICHARD JOHNSON for the third time — 176 winners was 34 more than Brian Hughes. Native River’s Gold Cup was the high point. Should win again but would help enormously if his mainstay, Philip Hobbs, is back in form.
Champion owner
JP McMANUS. Buveur D’Air was his biggest winner of his 85 and really it was just numbers that kept Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, with just 30 horses in Britain, at bay.
Champion conditional jockey
JAMES BOWEN with 57 winners. The 17-year-old burst on the scene and his ride on Raz De Maree in the Welsh National was superb. He will not find the next few years quite so easy without a claim, but a big job surely awaits him one day.
IRELAND
Champion trainer
WILLIE MULLINS with almost €6m (£4,373,400) beat Gordon Elliott by €800,000, but it was anything but easy. Mullins began Punchestown last Tuesday €510,000 down, but he was in front by Thursday and never looked back.
Champion jockey
DAVY RUSSELL with 119 winners, although the high points were this side of the Irish Sea — the Grand National on Tiger Roll and leading jockey at Cheltenham.
Champion owner
GIGGINSTOWN HOUSE STUD. There is a three-way contest in Ireland but JP McManus lacks a real star while, until Faugheen struck on Friday for Rich Ricci, he had been quiet this winter.