Trainers

Prior to his retirement from the saddle in March 2014, Joe Tizzard was a highly successful National Hunt jockey with over 700 winners to his name, including four at the Cheltenham Festival. Champion Conditional Jockey in 1998/99, when with Paul Nicholls, he subsequently rode a total of 248 winners for his father, Colin, whom he later succeeded at the family yard as Venn Farm in Milborne Port, Dorset.

Between 1995/96 and 2021/22, Colin Tizzard saddled a total of ten Grade 1 winners, including Native River in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2018. Tizzard Jnr., who saddled his first runners in 2022/23, has made a highly successful start to his time at the helm at Spurles Stables. His inaugural season yielded 55 winners, including three at Grade 2 level, and just over £1 mllion in prize money, while 2023/24 has proved nearly as profitable.

At the time of writing, his seasonal tally in 2026 is 42 winners from 240 runners, an impressive strike rate, and he has collected £940,000 in total prize money. Recent big paydays include his first Grade 1 winner, Elixir De Nutz, in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot in January 2024, Runswick Bay’s victory in the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon in 2025 and Rhebus Road claiming the Grade 1 Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown in December 2025.

 

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Amanda Perrett is, of course, the daughter of Guy Harwood, whom she succeeded, at Coombleands Stables in Pulborough, West Sussex, when he retired in 1996 after 30 years at the helm. She is ably assisted by her husband, Mark Perrett, who, prior to his retirement from the saddle in February 1996, was a highly successful National Hunt jockey, with over 900 winners to his name.

Having assumed control of one of the finesy yards in the country, which had previously housed the likes of Kalaglow, To- Agori-Mou, Cacoethes, Warning and Dancing Brave, at the age of 26, Perret saddled her first winner in her own right, Hoofprints, at Lingfield in November 1996. She has since added over 650 more to her career tally, although her most successful season, numerically and financially, came back in 2002. That year, she saddled 60 winners from 359 runners, at a strike rate of 17%, including a high-profile success for Tillerman, owned by the late Khalid Abdullah, in the Celebration Mile at Goodwood.

All told, Perrett has saddled a total of 20 Group winners during her career. Her best horse to date was the top-class miler Indian Lodge, who won eight of his 19 starts, including the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and the Prix de la Foret, again at Longchamp, as a four-year-old in 2000.

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Based at the historic Cadland Cottage Stables on the Moulton Road in Newmarket and, since January 2024, with a satellite yard at Machell Place Stables on the nearby Old Station Road, Alice Haynes is a fairly recent addition to the training ranks. After gaining experience working for the likes of Henrietta Knight, Mick Channon and David Simcock, a spell in Australia and four years running he own successful pre-training business in Newmarket, she first took out a licence in her own right in 2021.

Haynes made a bright start to her training career, too, saddling 20 winners in her inaugural season, including Mr. Professor in the Listed Silver Tankard Stakes at Pontefract. She upped her seasonal tally to 50 winners in 2022 and, again, to 54 in 2023, with further ‘black type’ successes courtesy of Lady Hollywood, in the Listed Marwell Stakes at Naas and the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg at Longchamp in 2022, and Fix You in the Listed Polonia Stakes at Cork in 2023. In 2024 and 2025, Haynes saddled many winners on the Flat – including four in as many days in January 2024, from her new base at Machell Place Stables – and has maintained a healthy strike rate.

 

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At the time of his retirement from the saddle, in September 2001, Peter Niven was still only the sixth British jump jockey to ride 1,000 winners, having reached that milestone on Colourful Life in a novices’ hurdle at Wetherby the previous May Day. Previously pupil assistant to David Nicholson and then to Jimmy FitzGerald, Niven subsequently became assistant trainer to Mary Reveley in Saltburn, Cleveland, before taking out a combined training licence, in his own right, in 2002.

Based at Clovafield Stables in Barton-le-Street, near Malton, NorthYorkshire, where he has capacity for 20 or so horses, Niven has, so far, achieved a double-figure seasonal tally just once, under either code, since joining the training ranks. On the Flat, he enjoyed his most successful campaign, numerically, in 2016, when he saddled 10 winners from 65 runners at a strike rate of 15%. Under National Hunt Rules, in the 2005/06 season he managed nine winners from 69 runners at a strike rate of 13%.

Although hardly prolific, Niven is not averse to big race success, granted the right ammunition. His best horses to date have been the versatile Clever Cookie, who was a Grade 2 winner over hurdles and a Group 2 winner on the Flat and, more recently, the talented handicap steeplechaser Malystic, who collected three decent prizes for the yard in 2022/23.

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