Harry Skelton set to scoop £500,000 David Power Jockeys Cup prize - but here's how the £1.5m competition could all change in final two days

The inaugural David Power Jockeys' Cup comes to an end on Friday with £1.5 million in prize-money set to be distributed and plenty up for grabs in an all-important final two days of the competition.

Harry Skelton is so far ahead that Paddy Power, one of the bookmakers under the banner of competition sponsors Flutter, have stopped taking bets, but there is an intriguing battle for second between Harry Cobden and Nico de Boinville, with a second prize of £200,000 up for grabs. 

As well as the prize, a bonus of £20,000 will go to the trainer and staff who have supplied the rider with the most winners, double the sum available to the third-place jockey.

Cobden is 74 points behind Skelton, with scoring on the basis of results in the 12 ITV races on Thursday and Friday. A win is worth ten points, a second eight points and third and fourth worth six and four points respectively.

Yet the champion jockey has just an eight point lead over De Boinville, who is booked aboard the only two odds-on shots across the dozen races. He rides Constitution Hill in the William Hill Aintree Hurdle (3.30) on Thursday before Jonbon goes a redemption mission of his own in the My Pension Expert Melling Chase (3.30) 24 hours later.

There is a notable gap behind third with Sam Twiston-Davies on 260 points, jockeys' championship-chasing Sean Bowen on 222 and Gavin Sheehan on 188, but things could not be closer in the race for seventh with Ben Jones and Charlie Deutsch level on 152.

Ben Jones: in a tight battle for seventh with Charlie DeutschCredit: Mark Cranham

Finishing seventh over eighth is worth an extra £10,000, a £40,000 prize in total, and Jones has the advantage of more rides on ITV as well as the best chance in Huyton Asphalt Franny Blennerhassett Memorial Mildmay Novices' Chase (1.45) favourite Handstands.

Jonjo O'Neill occupies ninth spot, worth £20,000, but Brendan Powell is just six points adrift in tenth, the final spot on the table to receive prize-money.

Dylan Johnston appears likely to take home the £20,000 prize for the leading conditional jockey, with a tally of 82 points and lead of 12 over nearest pursuer Caoilin Quinn. The runner-up also gets £5,000 and Quinn is just two points ahead of Freddie Gingell.

David Power Jockeys' Cup standings

1 Harry Skelton 378 points
2 Harry Cobden 304
3 Nico de Boinville 296
4 Sam Twiston-Davies 260
5 Sean Bowen 222
6 Gavin Sheehan 188
7= Ben Jones 152
7= Charlie Deutsch 152
9 Jonjo O'Neill Jr 140
10 Brendan Powell 134

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