Harry Derham
A recent addition to the training ranks, Harry Derham spent over a decade working fir his uncle and, now, 14-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls at Manor Farm Stables in Ditcheat, Somerset. In his capacity as conditional jockey, between 2010/11 and 2014/15, he rode 50 winners, including Salubrious in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at the 2013 Cheltenham Festival, before becoming pupil assistant and, subsequently, assistamt trainer.
After six years in the latter role, during which Nicholls won the trainers’ championship three times, Derham announced that the 2021/22 season would be his last at Manor Farm and duly took out a licence, in his own name, in 2022/23. Baed at Upper Farm Stables, a purpose-built, 45-box facility in Boxford, West Berkshire, Derham made the perfect start to his new career when, on Boxing Day, 2022, he saddled his first ever runner, Seelotmorebusiness, to a comfortable, 12-length victory in a handicap hurdle at Huntimgdon.
That inaugural season, as a whole, yielded 14 winners from 57 runners, at a healthy 25% strike rate and Derham continued in similar vein in 2023/24, increasing his seasonal tally to 44 winners from 179 runners and amassing £462,924 in total prize money. Despite a brief hiatus in 2024/25, when his gallop was washed away by Storm Bert in early November and required resurfacing, he continued his progress, numerically and fiscally, with 57 runners from 274 runners (21%) and £647,865 in prize money. Indeed, Derham enjoyed the two biggest wins of his career so far, albeit on Irish soil, when Washington and Ascending Lark won Listed handicap hurdles at Fairyhouse and Punchestown in December 2024 and April 2025 respectively. Om 2025/26 to date, he has saddled six winners and seven placed horses from 17 runners, at a win strike rate of 35%, to lie forty-seventh in the National Hunt Trainers’ Championship with £41,271.
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