Trainers

 

Bio: Oliver Sherwood first took out his trainers license in the mid 80s, but prior to that has an apprenticeship of sorts as assistant trainer to Gavin Pritchard, Arthur Moore and last but certainly not least six years with  Fred Winter at Uplands yard.

Clearly not a work shy individual, Sherwood took on a parallel career as a jockey, and in fact become champion jockey in 79/80, riding almost 100 winners over his riding career.

As a trainer Sherwood went from strength to strength, and to date he’s had six winners at the Cheltenham Festival, has won the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown and the Hennessy Gold Cup twice. His biggest win by far though was with Many Clouds with ten wins – including the aforementioned Hennessy Gold Cup and the big one, The Aintree Grand National in 2015.

Sherwood remains as competitive as ever, and no doubt has more big wins in the pipeline.

 

Bio: Jeremy Scott is a National Hunt trainer based at High Holworthy Farm in Brompton Regis, Somerset. The former point to pointer, applied for his training license in 2007 and it wasn’t long before he found his feet.

 

The farmer turned trainer had his first successwith Gone To Lunch who went on to win 8 times over the next 5 years claiming almost a quarter of a million in prize money. Another stand out for Scott was grade one winner Melodic Rendezvous, winning 8 of 31 starts with a comparable prize money total to Gone To Lunch.

Ever the family man, Jeremy Scoot attribes much of his success to his wife Camilla, who has been by his side in racing since the point to point days.

 

Website: http://www.jeremyscottracing.net/

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Contact: holworthyfarm@yahoo.com

 

 

Bio: Ian Williams is a horse trainer based at Racing Stables situated in the heart of the Midlands. The son of successful jockey, the late  Billy Williams, Ian was hesitant to follow his father, but still had an interest in racing. Consequently he fell into training, and was assistant to Jenny Pitman for a time. From there he moved on to periods with Martin Pipe and Francois Doume, before joining forces with Patrick Kelly to set up Dominion Racing Stables.

Time spend with Francois Doume paid dividends and no doubt eased the way to Williams first Grade 1 winner in the Prix la Haye Jousselin, Batman Senora. Further wins followed and finally noteable Festival success at the Cheltenham Festival in 2016  when Ballyaltonwon the Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase.

With well over 1000 winners, and as a dual purpose trainer, Williams has the distinction of having had a winner at every single UK racecourse. This very balance approach led to prize money of around £450,000 over the jumps, and £600,000 over the flat in 2016/17.

If the past is any indication of the future, Ian WIlliams has many more wins to come!

 

Website: http://www.ianwilliamsracing.com/

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Contact: info@ianwilliamsracing.com

 

Bio: After an education is racing via Patrick Chamings, Hughie Morrison and Gabriel Marie “Gai” Waterhouse, Hugo Palmer took out a license to train in 2011. Based at Kremlin Cottage Stables in Newmarket Palmer hit the ground running, with early success even though he only had 11 horses in training at the time. The win came at Brighton via Steady The Buffs and it bouyed the trainer on. Two listed wins from Making Eyes followed as did group winners,  , Aktabantay (in the Solario Stakes at Goodwood) and New Providence.

In 2015 further strides were made, this time in the form of a Classic win, Galileo Gold in the 2000 Guineas. The horse then went on to win at Royal Ascot. Total prize money for that season topped £2 million, showing that he’s a force to be reckoned with, despite still being relatively new to his horse trainer role.

 

Website: http://www.hugopalmer.com/

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