Sam Allwood

Former point-to-point trainer Sam Allwood has held a full, exclusively National Hunt, licence since June 2019. Based at Church Farm, in the village of Ash Magna, just south of Whitchurch, in North Shropshire, Allwood is an unassuming, but hard-working, handler, who has been lauded as one to watch in the professional training ranks. Prior to being granted his licence, he had saddled just one winner under Rules, former point-to-pointer Mantou, in a novices’ hunters’ chase at Sedgefield, in April 2018.

However, in his new capacity, he hit the ground running in 2019/20, saddling nine winners from 43 runners, at a 21% strike rate, and amassed just over £49,000 in total prize money. His biggest earner that year was the Kayf Tara mare Sheneededtherun, owned by the Sam Allwood Racing Club, who contributed four wins, from six runs, and over £28,000 to the respective seasonal totals. Allwood has yet to match that performance, with just four, four and two winners in three subsequent seasons and just one, so far, in 2023/24. That said, some 59, or roughly 20%, of his 293 runners in that period finished second or third, so it may be fair to say that the yard could do with a slight change of fortune.

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