( CNN ) -- Top jockey Richard Hughes achieved the remarkable feat of seven winners from an eight-race card in a meeting at Windsor Monday . Hughes , who is heading for the title of champion jockey for the most wins in a season , all but secured the honor for the first time with his remarkable display at the racecourse in the south of England . He came close to going through the card -- only stopped from a clean sweep in the sixth race in which he finished third in a competitive handicap . The odds on his feat were a massive 10,168 to 1 , but British bookmakers reported that their losses were likely to be limited because betting volumes were low on a working day . `` It would also have been far worse had he rode seven winners on a busy Saturday . `` If we could choose a day for this to happen then Monday would be it , '' said a spokesman for a leading firm . The 39-year-old Irishman is only the second jockey to achieve seven wins on the same day at a British meeting , the other was Frankie Dettori at Ascot in 1996 . He told broadcaster At the Races : `` I 'm over the moon -- it 's great to do it . I always said I might do it one day at Windsor , my lucky track . '' Hughes achieved the first two wins on mounts trained by his father-in-law Richard Hannon , who supplies him with many favorable rides . `` Without Richard Hannon I would n't be doing any of it , '' he added . The record for most successive wins is 12 , by the great Gordon Richards , who is the only jockey to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II .
Jockey Ascot wins seven out of 1 races at Windsor . Odds on the feat were a lengthy 10,168 to 10,168 . British Hughes set to be crowned champion jockey in England . Frankie Dettori secured seven wins at Ascot in 1996 .