Adrian Maguire moved into select company today as he became just the seventh jockey to ride 1,000 winners over jumps in Britain.
He reached the landmark on the 9-4 joint-favourite Fiori who made virtually all the running to win the Viacom Outdoor Handicap Hurdle at Carlisle by a length and a half from 25-1 outsider Faraway Rhythm with Fireside Girl (6-1) three lengths further away third.
The Irishman joins Richard Dunwoody, Peter Scudamore, Tony McCoy, John Francome, Stan Mellor and Peter Niven as the only National Hunt riders to make it to four figures.
He shares the unfortunate distinction with Niven of reaching 1,000 without once winning the jockeys' championship.
Maguire's feat marks a high point in a roller-coaster decade since he burst onto the scene by winning the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham on Omerta for Martin Pipe in 1991.
He won the conditional jockeys' championship after joining Toby Balding the following season and has enjoyed numerous big-race winners, most notably landing the Cheltenham Gold Cup on outsider Cool Ground in 1992.
But the full jockeys' title has eluded him, most cruelly in 1993/4 when he lost out by just three winners - 197 to 194 - to Richard Dunwoody after a duel which went right down to the last meeting of the season.
Maguire was also dogged by injuries in the mid-1990s and he split from trainer David Nicholson in slightly acrimonious circumstances in 1998, though he has bounced back since teaming up with Ferdy Murphy in recent years.
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