Anthony Honeyball

Formerly amateur rider to the late Richard Barber at Seaborough, Dorset, Anthony Honeyball was forced to join the licensed yard of Paul Nicholls at Ditcheat, Somerset as a conditional jockey in 2001, when the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain for 20 years caused the cancellation of all point-to-point fixtures. He would ride 10 of his 45 winners under National Hunt Rules for Nicholls and, in 2006, made the natural progression from jockey to trainer, initially at his parents’ farm in Somerset.

Honeyball began his training career with only half a dozen horses, but nonetheless saddled his first winner, Classic Fair, in a mares’ only maiden hurdle at Taunton on December 18, 2006. He subsequently rented a yard from Barber and, in 2012, moved to his current base at nearby Potwell Farm Stables in Mosterton, near Beaminster. He has significantly expanded his operation since his arrival and currently has approximately 80 horses in training.

Honeyball enjoyed his most successful season, numerically and fiscally, in 2023/24, when he saddled 42 winners from 258 runners, at a strike rate of 16%, and amassed £760,665 in prize money. That represented a second consecutive record season for the yard and, with 33 winners and £379,138 on the board already in 2024/25, at the time of writing, a third is by no means out of the question for the burgeoning stable. A Grade 1 winner has so far proved elusive but, with a total of 19 Graded and Listed winners to his name, success at the highest level for Honeyball is surely only a matter of time.

 

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