James Fanshawe

Formerly assistant to both David Nicholson and Sir Michael Stoute, James Fanshawe first took out a training licence in his own right in 1990, having previously taken over the lease at Pegasus Stables, on the Snailwell Road in Newmarket, in 1988. By his own admission, he was struck by the coup de foudre, or ‘thunderbolt’, of the yard and, after initially securing a seven-year occupancy, bought the property outright in 1993 and has remained there ever since.

Fanshawe saddled his first winner, Black Sapphire – a Lomond colt owned by Sheikh Mohammed, in the days before Godolphin – in a maiden stakes races at Salisbury on May 8, 1990 and has never really looked back. On the Flat, he has saddled at least 20 winners every season since and enjoyed his most successful campaign, numerically, in 2002, when his seasonal tally reached 58. Alltold, he has also a total of 12 Group 1, or Grade 1, victories to his name, the most recent of which came courtesy of Audarya in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland in November 2020. Over Jumps, Fanshawe also has the distinction of having won the Champion Hurdle twice, with Royal Gait in 1992 amd Hors La Loi III in 2002.

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