Jamie Richards (horse trainer)

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Jamie Richards is a leading thoroughbred horse racing trainer in New Zealand.

Jamie has won the New Zealand Trainers Premiership:^[1]

• 2019/20 season - 160 wins (36 Group or listed races) for stakes of $5,969,645 (in New Zealand alone).
• 2020/21 season - 101 wins (17 Group or listed) for $3,825,283.

Early career[]

Jamie's father, Paul Richards, was an accomplished jockey and his mother, Leanne Richards was a racing administrator.

Jamie was also an amateur jockey, winning 5 races in 10 starts.

Jamie attended Otago Boys' High School and then Otago University, he achieved a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and Accounting and a Diploma in Marketing. He was selected for the Sunline International Management Scholarship to undertake stud and stable experience in Europe and the United States.

He later worked for New Zealand Bloodstock before moving to Matamata to work at .

Jamie entered into a formal training partnership at with Stephen Autridge in May 2015. He took over as sole trainer in July 2018.^[2]

According to Hong Kong Jockey Club, Jamie will move to Hong Kong for the start of the 2022-2023 season.

Notable horses[]

Notable horses he has trained or co-trained include:

• Avantage.
• Age of Fire: winner of the 2018 Levin Classic.
• Cool Aza Beel, winner of the 2020 Sistema Stakes.
• Embellish, winner of the 2017 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.
• Gingernuts, winner of the 2017 Avondale Guineas, New Zealand Derby, Rosehill Guineas & Windsor Park Plate.^[3]
• Kahma Lass, winner of the 2020 New Zealand 1000 Guineas.^[4]
• Melody Belle, winner of the 2019 Empire Rose Stakes.
• Noverre, winner of the 2021 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.
• On The Bubbles.
• Probabeel^[5]
• Risque, winner of the 2015 New Zealand 1000 Guineas.
• Sword of Osman, winner of the 2018 Sistema Stakes.
• Sword of State, winner of the 2021 Sistema Stakes.
• Te Akau Shark.
• The Perfect Pink, winner of the 2021 New Zealand 1000 Guineas.
• Yourdeel, winner of the 2019 Sistema Stakes.

See also[]

• Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand

References[]

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