Robert Cowell
Briefly an amateur jockey, with a single winner to his name, Robert Cowell served a lengthy apprenticeship under the tutelage of Gavin Pritchard-Gordon, David Nicholson, John Hammond in France and Neil Drysdale in the United States before embarking upon his own training career. Initially based at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California, he returned to Britain in 1997 and saddled his first winner on British soil, Mary Cornwallis, in a 5-furlong handicap at Lingfield on January 27, 1998.
Nowadays, Cowell is based at the privately-owned Bottisham Heath Stud, in the hamlet of Six Mile Bottom, which is so-called because of its distance from Newmarket. Strictly speaking, he holds a combined training licence, but apart from a brief spell in the spring of 2003, when the relatively highly-rated Rock’n Cold won a couple of lowly selling hurdles, he has yet to saddle another winner under National Hunt Rules.
On the Flat, though, Cowell has garnered a reputation as a trainer of talented sprinters. Indeed, he has won the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot twice, with Prohibit in 2011 and Goldream in 2015, the Nunthorpe Stakes at York with Jwala in 2013 and the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp, again with Goldream, in 2015. Domestically, he enjoyed his most successful season, numerically and financially, in 2017, when he saddled 43 winners and amassed £549,431 in total prize money.
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