[4] James Doyle rode his first winner on 1 June 2005, when he partnered the Richard Price trained gelding Farnborough to win a Class 6 Handicap run over an extended mile at Wolverhampton.

During 2006 he rode 73 winners, with 32 those being on Turf, including the totesport Stakes Heritage Handicap at Windsor, which he won with One More Round.

[2] In 2016 he lost his position as first jockey for bin Suroor[13] and was absorbed into Appleby's team as Buick's number two.

He had international success on Jungle Cat in 2018 and scored his best year numerically to date, winning 156 of his 633 UK races for £4,745,322 in prize money.

In October 2023, it was announced he would quit Godolphin after nine years to ride for the Emir of Qatar's Wathnan Racing operation.

Doyle had ridden the Emir's Ballymount Boy to win the Prospect Stakes at Doncaster a few days prior.