Trainers

Formerly assistant to both David Nicholson and Sir Michael Stoute, James Fanshawe first took out a training licence in his own right in 1990, having previously taken over the lease at Pegasus Stables, on the Snailwell Road in Newmarket, in 1988. By his own admission, he was struck by the coup de foudre, or ‘thunderbolt’, of the yard and, after initially securing a seven-year occupancy, bought the property outright in 1993 and has remained there ever since.

Fanshawe saddled his first winner, Black Sapphire – a Lomond colt owned by Sheikh Mohammed, in the days before Godolphin – in a maiden stakes races at Salisbury on May 8, 1990 and has never really looked back. On the Flat, he has saddled at least 20 winners every season since and enjoyed his most successful campaign, numerically, in 2002, when his seasonal tally reached 58. Alltold, he has also a total of 12 Group 1, or Grade 1, victories to his name, the most recent of which came courtesy of Audarya in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland in November 2020. Over Jumps, Fanshawe also has the distinction of having won the Champion Hurdle twice, with Royal Gait in 1992 amd Hors La Loi III in 2002.

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Formerly assistant trainer to Kim Bailey and the late Tim Forster, Henry Daly succeeded the latter at Downton Hall Stables in Ludlow, Shropshire in 1998, having previously been instrumental in the design of the yard and facilities. Exclusively a National Hunt trainer, Daly is no stranger to success at the highest level, having saddled the first of his three Grade 1 winners, Behrajan, in the Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown Park as long ago as January 1999. The following December, he also saddled Edmond to win the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow and, in March 2003, won the Milday of Flete Challenge Cup and the Grand Annual Challenge Cup on successive days of the Cheltenham Festival, with Young Spartacus and Palashan, respectively.

Daly has never trained more than 43 winners in a season, having achieved that total in 2003/04, from 209 runners, at a healthy 21% strike rate. Nevertheless, he has held a training licence in his own right to have saddled in excess of 600 winners. In 2023/24, so far, Daly has 21 winners and amassed £319,144 in total prize money, placing him in thirty-eighth place in the National Hunt Trainers’ Championship table.

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Based at Kingston Warren, near Wantage, within the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, Henry Candy has held a training licence, in his own right, for over 50 years. Candy, who turns 80 in October 2024, took over the licence from his father, Derrick, at the end of the 1973 season and has long established himself as a well-respected figure in the Flat racing world. Top-class middle distance horses, not least Time Charter, who the Oaks, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Champion Stakes, initially made his name, but Candy has since garnered a reputation as a trainer of exceptional sprinters.

Indeed, since 2010, Candy has five Group 1 victories to his name, courtesy of Markab and Twilight Son in the Sprint Cup at Haydock in 2010 and 2015 respectively, Twlight Son in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Acot in 2016 and Limato in the July Cup at Newmarket and the Prix de la Foret at Chantilly later that same year. Although by no means prolific, Candy has saddled a double-figure total of winners every season since 2006 and recorded his highest seasonal tally, 33, in 2015, at an above-average strike rate of 14%.

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At the time of writing, in 2026 so far, George Boughey has saddled 9 winners from 29 runners, at an impressive strike rate , and currently lies in ninth place in the Flat Trainers’ Championship. Nowadays based at Saffron House Stables on the Hamilton Road in Newmarket, Boughey served his apprenticeship with the likes of Gai Waterhouse and Lloyd Williams in Australia and Hugo Palmer, when he was still based in Newmarket. Indeed, for the last two years of his six-year stint as assistant to Palmer, he was put in charge at nearby Yellowstone Park Stables, before taking out a combined licence, in his own right, at his current base in November 2019.

Considering he began his training career at the age of 27, with just four horses, it would be fair to say that Boughey has made rapid to the top of his profession. Already a Classic winning trainer, courtesy of Cachet in the 1,000 Guineas in 2022, he enjoyed his most prolific and profitable campaign that season, with 136 winners (17%) from 787 runners and £1,988,552 in total prize money. Other, more recent, high-profile winners for the yard include Via Sistina in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in July 2023 and Baradar in the International Stalkes at Ascot later the same month, to name but two. Believing captured the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan in March 2025.

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