Marco Botti

Based, since 2013, at Prestige Place on the Snailwell Road in Newmarket, Italian-born Marco Botti is the son of Alduino Botti, who has been the force majeure in the training ranks in his native land for over three decades. Having learned his trade with compatriot Luca Cumani, Ed Dunlop and Saeed Bin Suroor in Britain, and Bill Mott in the United States, Botti embarked upon his own training career and saddled his first runners in Britain in 2006.

Exclusively a Flat trainer, Botti wasted little time in chalking up his first Group level victory, courtesy of juvenile filly Sesmen in the Group 3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood on August 27, 2006. He has since added a total of seven Group 1, or Grade 1, wins worldwide, the pick of which was the Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, in October 2012; under a well-judged ride from Lanfranco ‘Frankie’ Dettori, his five-year-old Montjeu colt Joshua Tree made all the running and stayed on well in the closing stages to collect the £569, 620 first prize.

Numerically, Botti enjoyed his most successful season in Britain in 2013, when he saddled 89 winners from 541 runners at a strike rate of 16%. Indeed, that season he broke through the £1,000,000 barrier for the first time, amassing £1,076,761 in total prize money, and would do so again in both 2014 and 2015.

Website: www.marcobotti.co.uk

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