Focus on four who are making it pay - for punters

Alan Johns (jump jockey)

2016-17 stats 31 wins from 204 rides (15% strike-rate), +£36.99 profit to £1 level-stake
Highlights Winning on Theligny at Newbury on New Year's Eve and Dadsintrouble on Peter Marsh card at Haydock
Ambition "First and foremost I'd love to ride out my claim – that's an ambition in every jockey's life. But the ultimate ambition would be to establish myself as a top professional jockey, like everybody else. That would be the dream."

At 27, 3lb claimer Alan Johns is too old to ride in conditional jockeys' races. However, this self-confessed late starter is making up for lost time in his role attached to Tim Vaughan's Glamorgan stable.