Ed Walker

Educated at Radley College, Oxfordshire, Ed Walker served a lengthy apprentice, working in Australia, France and at home in England, most recently as assistant trainer to Luca Cumani in Newmarket, with whom he spent four years. He initially began training in his own right in a rented, 24-box yard at St. Gatien Cottage Stables on Vicarage Road, Newmarket in October 2010, from whence he sent out his first winner, Riggins, in the Listed Hyde Stakes at Kempton on November 27, 2010. Walker relocated, briefly, to Grange House Stables, on Hamilton Road, in December 2012 and, again, to Warren Place, on Moulton Road, in December 2013, before finally settling at his current base, Kingsdown Stables in Upper Lambourn, Berkshire, three years later.

Although he has had the occasional runner ‘over the sticks’, Walker is overwhelming a Flat trainer and, it that sphere, enjoyed his most successful season, numerically, in 2024, when he saddled 74 winners from 440 runners, at a strike rate of 17%. In 2025, so far, he has added another 50 winners to his career tally on British soil, which currently stands at 672, and already amassed £1.69 million in total prize money, making it his most successful season in financial terms. He currently lies twelfth in the 2025 Flat Trainers’ Championship.

At the time of writing, Walker has saddled a total of 63 Pattern and Listed winners at home abroad. His career tally includes four Group 1 victories, Makarova in the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp in 2024, Dreamloper in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and the Prix d’Ispahan, both in 2022, and Starman in the July Cup at Newmarket in 2021. At the time of writing, his recent Lowther Stakes winner, Royal Fixation, is well-fancied for the Group1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket and a 20/1 chance for the 1,000 Guineas back at ‘Headquarters in May 2026.