Trainers

Bio: Until August, 2018, when his record of 4,193 career winners was finally beaten by Mark Johnston, Richard Hannon was the most successful trainer in the history of British horse racing.

 

Hannon Snr. – not to be confused with his son, also called Richard, who took over the training operation on the retirement of his father in 2013 – first took out a training licence in 1970. He famously funded the purchase of East Everleigh Stables near Marlborough, Wiltshire with £35,000 he won by backing Mon Fils, winner of the 2,000 Guineas in 1973, at 200/1.

 

During his lengthy career, Hannon won the 2,000 Guineas twice more, with Don’t Forget Me in 1987 and Tirol in 1990, both of whom also won the Irish equivalent at the Curragh, and the 1,000 Guineas once, with Sky Lantern in 2013. Probably his best horse ever, though, was Canford Cliffs, rated 133 by Timeform and the winner of five Group 1 races, namely the Irish 2,000 Guineas, St. James’s Palace Stakes and Sussex Stakes as a three-year-old and the Lockinge Stakes and Queen Anne Stakes as a four-year-old.

 

Hannon finished his training career with, far and away, his most successful season ever, saddling 235 winners and amassing over £4.5 million. Unsurprisingly, he became Champion Trainer for the third time in four years and the fourth time overall.

 

Website: http://www.richardhannonracing.co.uk/

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Bio: Ed Dunlop is a thoroughbred horse trainer based at La Grange Stables, Fordham Road, Newmarket. He’s of good racing pedigree, his father was champion trainer John Dunlop.

With an international take on gaining experience Dunlop had spells in stud farms in Ireland, Kentucky and Sydney. Once back in the UK, he was assistant to Nicky Henderson and joined Alex Scott at Newmarket. Tragically Scott was later shot and killed due to a work related dispute and Dunlop took over the business, renaming it Gainsborough Stables.

Dunlop continued his international approach when it came to training. ntrants were sent far and wide to the US, Dubai and other places far from the UK scene. Success soon followed, and over the years Ed Dunlop has gone from strength to strength, Take 2003 for instance, where the stable had 50 wins.

Some of Ed Dunlop’s most noteable wins include the  Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf in 2004 and 2006 with Ouija Board,  the Oaks twice with the aforementioned Ouija Board (2004) and Snow Fairy (2010), with Snow Fairy also winning the Hong Cup Cup the same year.  Ascot Gold Cup with Trip to Paris in 2015.

 

Website: http://www.edunlop.com/

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Contact:  angela@eddunlopracing.co.uk

 

Bio: Kalre Burke took out his horse training license in 1990 and it didn’t take him long to start seeing results, with a handicap hurdle win on Temporale that very year. It took until 1994 for the big wins to start rolling in with Daring Destiny in the Ayr Gold Cup, the horse then gifted him his first group one win at Phoenix Sprint Stakes at Leopardstown.

A successful move to High Havens Stable in Newmarket followed and the wins kept rolling in, then a year on Burke purchased his current yard, Spigot Lodge, in Middleham, North Yorkshire.

Controversy factored in when Burke was accused of supplying inside information to gambler and owner Miles Rodgers, and a ban resulted in his wife taking over his yard for a period of time.  Further success followed upon Burke’s return including  Quiet Reflection in the Commonwealth Cup at Ascot and the Sprint Cup at Haydock in 2016.

 

Website: http://www.karlburke.co.uk/

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Contact: Karl@karlburke.co.uk

 

Bio: Richard Fahey shared the conditional jockeys’ title with Derek Byrne and Stuart Turner in 1988/89 but, by his own admission, “wasn’t good enough” in the saddle and, in 1993, turned his attention.

 

From his initial base, at Manor Farm in Butterwick, near Malton, North Yorkshire, he didn’t reach double-figures for a season until 1996 but, in 1997, saddled his first big race winner, Superior Premium, in the Daihatsu Field Marshal Stakes at Haydock Park. Three years later, the same horse would become his first Royal Ascot winner when running on strongly to win the Cork and Orrery Stakes – now the Diamond Jubilee Stakes – at odds of 20/1.

 

Fahey saddled 50 winners in a season for the first time in 2003 and, following the move to his current base at Mews House in nearby Musley Bank, saddled 100 winners in a season for the first time in 2008. Victory for Wootton Bassett in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp in 2010 gave him his first Group 1 winner and he has since added half a dozen more successes at the highest level, notably with Ribchester, who won the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes and Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in 2017. Indeed, those three victories contributed towards his best season ever, in pecuniary terms, with over £4.2 million in prize money.

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