• Ruby Walsh is one of the greatest jumps racing jockeys of all-time

• With 59 Cheltenham Festival winners to his name, he is the most successful jockey to ride at Prestbury Park

• According to online estimates, Ruby Walsh net worth is valued at around £1.5 million

If you enjoy betting on horse races online, chances are you’ll know about Ruby Walsh and his successful National Hunt career.

A leading figure in the sport for over two decades, Walsh was lucky enough to ride for two of the greatest horse racing trainers around in Paul Nicholls and Willie Mullins.

By the time Walsh announced his immediate retirement in May 2019, he had amassed over 2,750 career wins and was named Cheltenham Festival leading jockey on 11 occasions.

Enjoying success at the top of the horse racing jockeys spectrum for 24 years, Walsh was able to accumulate a healthy financial status and he remains heavily involved at Closutton.

A favourite in Cheltenham Festival betting odds throughout his illustrious career, Walsh won everything there was to win in National Hunt racing.

Here, we discuss Ruby Walsh net worth and wealth estimates while also looking at some of his greatest moments in the saddle and his life away from racing.

How Much Is Ruby Walsh Worth?

As one of the most successful jockeys in the history of racing, it will come as no surprise to hear that Ruby Walsh has earned a multi-million pound fortune.

In fact, he won £20 million in prize money from 2008 onwards and that is a staggering sum of money for any sportsperson to claim.

While official net worth figures are unknown, online reports estimate Ruby Walsh wealth at around £1.5 million.

Now retired from the saddle, Ruby Walsh continues to appear as a pundit for a plethora of racing sources and channels, including ITV and Racing TV.

The debate over jockey salary is ongoing but Walsh showed just how lucrative a career in racing can be – earning over £2.5 million in prize money during the 2008/09 season.

Ruby Walsh Family

Born in County Kildare in 1979, Ruby Walsh was destined to enjoy a career in horse racing – whether as a jockey, trainer or in the media.

His father, Ted Walsh, is one of the most successful National Hunt trainers in the sport and his sister Katie was widely regarded as one of racing’s best female jockeys.

Even brother Ted Jr has his role in the Walsh racing organisation and he is married to former female jockey and Dancing With The Stars champion Nina Carberry.

Ruby married Gillian Doran in July 2006 and the couple have four daughters: Isabelle, Elsa, Gemma and Erica.

You'd be hard pressed to be betting against one of the children following in their great father's footsteps...

Ruby Walsh Best Horses

It is impossible to select one horse that stands out above all others for Ruby Walsh after a successful 24-year career but we’ve narrowed down to his 10 most significant horses:

• Annie Power

• Big Buck’s

• Douvan

• Faugheen

• Kauto Star

• Hurricane Fly

• Papillon

• Quevega

• Un De Sceaux

• Vautour

How Many Times Has Ruby Walsh Won At The Cheltenham Festival?

A must know for any sports quiz fan – Ruby Walsh won 59 races at the Cheltenham Festival throughout his horse racing career.

He first tasted victory at Prestbury Park in 1998, riding Alexander Banquet to victory in the Champion Bumper. And the rest, as they say, is history…

In 2017, Walsh became the first jockey to ride four winners on the same day at the Cheltenham Festival – an incredible feat to say the least.

He was successful on Yorkhill, Un De Sceaux, Nichols Canyon and Let’s Dance on Day 3 of the meeting and the Walsh/Mullins duo lapped up the applause in the winner’s enclosure.

We’ve included a full list of Ruby Walsh Cheltenham Festival wins below, including victories in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Champion Chase.

1998 Cheltenham Festival

• Champion Bumper - Alexander Banquet

2002 Cheltenham Festival

• Mildmay of Flete Handicap Chase - Blowing Wind

2003 Cheltenham Festival

• Arkle Challenge Trophy - Azertyuiop

2004 Cheltenham Festival

• Queen Mother Champion Chase - Azertyuiop

• Grand Annual Chase - St Pirran

• County Hurdle - Sporazene

2005 Cheltenham Festival

• Champion Bumper - Missed That

• Ryanair Chase - Thisthatandtother

2006 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Noland

• The Festival Trophy - Dun Doire

• County Handicap Hurdle - Desert Quest

2007 Cheltenham Festival

• Royal & SunAlliance Chase - Denman

• Ryanair Chase - Taranis

• Cheltenham Gold Cup - Kauto Star

2008 Cheltenham Festival

• Queen Mother Champion Chase - Master Minded

• Ballymore Novices' Hurdle - Fiveforthree

• Triumph Hurdle - Celestial Halo

2009 Cheltenham Festival

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

• Queen Mother Champion Chase - Master Minded

• World Hurdle - Big Buck's

• Ballymore Novices' Hurdle - Mikael d'Haguenet

• RSA Chase - Cooldine

• County Handicap Hurdle - American Trilogy

• Cheltenham Gold Cup - Kauto Star

2010 Cheltenham Festival

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

• Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle - Sanctuaire

• World Hurdle - Big Buck's

2011 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Al Ferof

• Champion Hurdle - Hurricane Fly

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

• World Hurdle - Big Buck's

• County Handicap Hurdle - Final Approach

2012 Cheltenham Festival

• World Hurdle - Big Buck's

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

2013 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Champagne Fever

• Champion Hurdle - Hurricane Fly

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

• Champion Bumper - Briar Hill

2014 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Vautour

• Mares' Hurdle - Quevega

• Ballymore Novices' Hurdle - Faugheen

2015 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Douvan

• Arkle Challenge Trophy - Un de Sceaux

• Champion Hurdle - Faugheen

• JLT Novices' Chase - Vautour

2016 Cheltenham Festival

• Arkle Challenge Trophy - Douvan

• Champion Hurdle - Annie Power

• Mares' Hurdle - Vroum Vroum Mag

• Ballymore Novices' Hurdle - Yorkhill

• JLT Novices' Chase - Black Hercules

• Ryanair Chase - Vautour

• Mares' Novices' Hurdle - Limini

2017 Cheltenham Festival

• JLT Novices' Chase - Yorkhill

• Ryanair Chase - Un de Sceaux

• Stayers' Hurdle - Nichols Canyon

• Mares' Novices' Hurdle - Let's Dance

2018 Cheltenham Festival

• Arkle Challenge Trophy - Footpad

• Mares' Hurdle - Benie Des Dieux

2019 Cheltenham Festival

• Supreme Novices' Hurdle - Klassical Dream

*Credit for all of the photos in this article belongs to AP Photo*

FIRST PUBLISHED: 12th April 2022

• Chelsea have produced some of the deadliest finishers ever in English football

• Their nicknames range from the ‘Gatling Gun’ to the ‘King of Stamford Bridge’

• The Blues most prolific scorer of all time was not even a striker

Throughout its long and distinguished history, Chelsea have been blessed with some of the deadliest strikers around.

These ten gave countless goalkeepers nightmares while outscoring the rest of the best to wear the royal blue.

10) George Hilsdon - 108

Nicknamed the ‘Gatling Gun’ due to his unstoppable shots, George began his goal-scoring feats at West Ham, playing alongside his brother, Jack.

On joining the Blues in 1906, the Bromley-born finisher started as he meant to go on, bagging five on his debut. Unsurprisingly, from such a strike-rate, he became the first player for Chelsea to top a hundred goals.

The First World War shortened a prolific career, a mustard gas attack in Arras enforcing early retirement from the game whereupon he became a teaboy on building sites to get by.

A weathervane dedicated to the forward still stands prominent at Stamford Bridge today and is said to bring ill-fortune if ever moved for refurbishments.

9) Eden Hazard - 110

The Belgian’s bewitching ball-skills and creative endeavours detract from the sheer number of goals he scored during his seven years in West London.

A greater number of European games and extended cup runs in the modern era explains why this fantastically gifted playmaker notched more than some legendary hit-man from the club’s past, but so too does an unerring shot that often found the target.

The four-time Chelsea Player of the Year orchestrated two league title successes before joining Real Madrid for an eye-watering €100m in 2019. Our Premier League predictions forecast a good wait yet before the Blues return to the top.

8) George Mills - 125

If several others on this illustrious list fired themselves to fabled status in short bursts of brilliance, Mills played the long game, accumulating his substantial haul over 14 years.

Often having to play second fiddle to the titans of his period, Mills took his chances when they came and enjoyed a high-point in the mid-Thirties, scoring 22 goals in 32 games.

Forever loyal to Chelsea, he went on to coach behind the scenes on retiring and saw his beloved Blues lift the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, mere months before his sad passing.

7) Jimmy Greaves - 132

In 661 appearances for Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham, West Ham, and England the train driver’s son from the East End of London scored 466 times.

For England alone he scored 44 goals in 57 games. His was a left foot feared throughout the world and for six seasons running the lethal forward - who was later embraced as a television personality - would have won the Golden Boot had the merit been around in his day.

Greavsie would be adored by the live betting community were he at his peak today, for here was a rare talent who could turn games around with a split-second sight of goal.

=5) Peter Osgood - 150

Only one statue stands outside Chelsea’s ground, a life-sized bronze bust depicting ‘Ossie’, the ‘King of Stamford Bridge’.

A flamboyant and entertaining forward, Osgood lit up the drab and dreary environs of English football across the early-Seventies before invariably heading to the King’s Road, to further embellish his reputation as a playboy and all-round raconteur.

When the older generation bemoan the absence of characters in the modern game, they are usually thinking of this extraordinary player who was as good in the air as he was with either foot.

=5) Roy Bentley - 150

The aptly named Bristolian was a Rolls Royce of a footballer, who signed for Chelsea in 1948 for a hefty £11,000 before paying the fee back many times over.

As captain and chief goal-source of one of the best British football teams to grace an English pitch, Bentley led his side to a first ever league title in 1950 and would have represented his country on more than 12 occasions were it not for formidable competition for a place back then.

With Tom Finney, Jackie Milburn and Stanley Matthews all vying for a starting spot even the magnificent Bentley had to routinely take a back seat.

4) Didier Drogba - 164

Listen to many in the know and they’ll tell you the Ivorian goal-machine remains the greatest Chelsea striker of them all. Revisiting his immense number of attributes, it’s easy to see why.

A muscular targetman and razor-sharp finisher, Drogba was as capable of pulling off the spectacular as he was poaching inside the area and it helps too as regards to his elite status that the former Marseilles ace was a big-game player.

Remarkably, he scored in all four of his FA Cup finals, two of them match-winners, while crucially he also snatched a late equaliser against Bayern in the 2012 Champions League final. Guess who smashed home the decisive pen in the subsequent shoot-out?

3) Kerry Dixon - 193

Medals may have eluded Dixon but the sight of him wheeling away in celebration, after scoring yet another goal for Chelsea, was such a familiar sight in the Eighties.

Striking up a terrific partnership with David Speedie, the pair bagged 169 goals as a little-and-large double-act and though they often clashed – on and off the pitch – their opposing characteristics drove them forward and kept Chelsea a viable proposition as the club yo-yoed through the divisions.

Dixon’s post-playing career is a sorry tale, with a nine-month stint in prison for assault in 2015.

2) Bobby Tambling - 202

A revered Chelsea great, Tambling forged a fearsome partnership with Jimmy Greaves, then later Barry Bridges, as the Blues came so close and so often to winning silverware throughout the Sixties.

A religious and understated individual away from the spotlight, his link-up play and eye for goal would make a £80m player in today’s climate and it grates that such a fine and prolific forward is largely unknown beyond the Bridge.

1) Frank Lampard - 211

According to the latest betting odds, Everton are safe from the drop this season. Now if they could just invent a time-machine to reverse their manager’s aging process and get him onto the Goodison turf, they’ll be top six in due course.

The impact Lampard had on a Chelsea side furnished with fortunes at the start of this century cannot be underestimated, proving a pivotal force in three of their title triumphs, as well as outscoring his team-mates on a regular basis.

Has England ever produced a better and more consistent goal-scoring midfielder? A welter of records and outstanding feats in royal blue suggests not.

The moment of the decision is about to arrive, it is very close. It is now a matter of weeks, Paul Pogba will soon choose his future after a period of reflection that has lasted since last summer.

The current deal with Manchester United runs out in June and the strategy is very clear: Pogba will wait until May for a final decision, he's not in a hurry because this choice will be decisive in his career.

It is no coincidence that Paul has been repeating in public for months that he wants to win trophies, waiting for a turning point after so many complicated seasons in Manchester.

And his agent Mino Raiola has adopted a plan similar to the one he used a year ago with Gianluigi Donnarumma when his contract with AC Milan was about to expire: wait until the right moment, don't sign with any club during the season but choose when the plan for all the clubs for the next season is already clear and defined.

The same will happen with Pogba, pending the final decision which will depend on many factors.

This Pogba saga started last July: Manchester United during last summer, in the first week of July, made a proposal to Paul Pogba to extend the contract.

But the negotiation never entered the final stages because the club's project was still unclear and Pogba together with his agent Mino Raiola preferred to wait.

The same process happened for example with Bruno Fernandes, a negotiation that began in July 2021 and is now ready for signings on the new deal until 2027.

It took 8 months to reach an agreement for the Portuguese midfielder, while Pogba is still thinking about it and wants to understand what the club's plan will be before communicating his final decision.

This involves the next Man Utd manager who will replace Ralf Rangnick but also the club's expectations, future planning, ambitions that become decisive for a player like Pogba who will turn 30 in March 2023.

It is not a financial or salary-related choice: if he had wanted to choose the money, Pogba would have already been able to sign for several clubs that have approached him for months by offering high potential salaries and signing fees.

Paul makes it a personal, professional and even family matter: after so many years in Manchester, is it time to change club and try a new experience? Leaving England or staying in the same country?

So many factors that Pogba is evaluating with his family, he will take his time but he wants maximum clarity on the Manchester United project before making a final choice.

He has never had particular problems with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer despite some rumors, he has always had respect for the manager like now for Rangnick but he pretends to understand what Manchester United will be like before he can give a final answer.

Clearly, Paul Pogba's choice will affect Manchester United's transfer market in the coming months.

Regardless of the Frenchman's decision, a defensive midfielder will arrive because the club has been looking for a player in that position for months now, with Declan Rice top of the list but really complicated signing because West Ham don't want to give any discount for their star.

But in the case of Paul Pogba's departure, Man United will also consider the arrival of a more offensive and quality midfielder during the summer transfer market.

The other priorities concern the center-back, the expectation is to buy a new player in that position while waiting for the choice of the new manager; in addition, Manchester United are exploring the striker market.

Paul Pogba on his future: “We have to be honest, I am not satisfied over the last 5 years, but not at all. This year, it’s dead, we will win nothing again. Whether it is with Manchester or in another club, I want to win trophies”, he told Le Figaro. 🇫🇷 #MUFC pic.twitter.com/eE0KjnlVMm

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) March 23, 2022

A new player will arrive in that position in the summer after a complicated season, Ralf Rangnick has already been involved by the board in discussions for a striker who could represent the type of number 9 needed by Man United.

The process has started for weeks but will only be completed after further comparison in the coming months.

A necessary decision also because Edinson Cavani has decided not to stay at Manchester United and there will not be a new deal for him, the desire of the Uruguayan forward is to try an experience in Spain and therefore he will say goodbye to the club in the summer.

Jesse Lingard is also destined to leave Man United on a free transfer because his contract will not be extended, he wanted to move to Newcastle last January but the club had prevented him from doing so.

There will therefore be many changes in Manchester United version 2022/2023, waiting for the final choice of Paul Pogba who will change some strategies for the club when there will be the communication of the Frenchman and his agent Raiola.

For now, it's a work in progress.