List of race horse trainers
Race horse trainers train horses for horse racing. This involves exercising, feeding, management and, in early years, to get them used to human contact.[1]
Once a horse is old enough to be ridden, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter. Leading horse trainers can earn a great deal of money from a percentage of the winnings that they charge the owner for training the horse.
Outside horse racing, most trainers specialize in a certain equestrianism discipline. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses one trains or prize money available in competition.
Prominent race horse trainers[]
United Kingdom & Ireland[]
- John Gosden
- Tim Easterby
- Michael Stoute
- Henry Cecil
- Mick Channon
- Luca Cumani
- Tim Forster
- Dick Hern
- Mark Johnston
- Henrietta Knight
- Ginger McCain
- Paul Nicholls
- Aidan O'Brien
- Vincent O'Brien
- Martin Pipe
- Fred Rimell
- Ted Walsh
- Fred Winter
United States[]
- Steve Asmussen
- Bob Baffert
- Matt Baker
- Patrick L. Biancone
- Christophe Clement
- Michael Dickinson
- Robert J. Frankel
- H. Allen Jerkens
- D. Wayne Lukas
- Richard Mandella
- Michael R. Matz
- Ron McAnally
- Shug McGaughey
- Kiaran McLaughlin
- William I. Mott
- Todd Pletcher
- Monty Roberts?
- Art Sherman
- Barclay Tagg
- Stacy Westfall
- Charlie Whittingham
According to The American Racing Manual, the thoroughbred horse racing trainers who have led the annual money-earning list more than twice since 1908 are:
- D. Wayne Lukas (14)
- Sam Hildreth (9)
- Charlie Whittingham (7)
- Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones (5)
- Bob Baffert, Laz Barrera, Ben A. Jones, William Molter (4)
- Hirsch Jacobs, Edward A. Neloy, James G. Rowe, Sr. (3)
Australia[]
- Bart Cummings
- Tommy Smith
- Colin Hayes
- Noel Francis Kelly
- Gai Waterhouse
- Lee Freedman
- David A. Hayes
- Chris Waller
India[]
New Zealand[]
Thoroughbred[]
Standardbred[]
- Cecil Devine
- Tony Herlihy
- Charlie Hunter
- Denis Nyhan
- Mark Purdon
- Natalie Rasmussen
- Steven Reid
- Doody Townley
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "419.224-010: HORSE TRAINER (agriculture; amuse. & rec.)". Dictionary Of Occupational Titles. Retrieved 2013-01-20.
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