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2 unusual facts about horse trainer


Francis Lee

In addition to his business ventures, Lee also had a career as a racehorse trainer.

Peter Chapple-Hyam

Peter Chapple-Hyam (born 2 April 1963 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.


1963 in Ireland

Paddy Prendergast becomes the first Irish-based trainer to become British flat racing Champion Trainer, retaining the title for the succeeding two years.

Andrew Balding

Andrew Matthews Balding (born 29 December 1972) is a racehorse trainer based at Park House Stables, Kingsclere, England.

Barbara J. Minshall

Barbara J. Minshall (born November 6, 1953 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner who has competed both in Canada and the United States.

Bart Cummings

James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM (born 14 November 1927) is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers.

Bert S. Michell

Bernard S. "Bert" Michell (c.1882 - October 21, 1938) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer best known for winning the 1928 Kentucky Derby with American Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame inductee, Reigh Count.

Ernie T. Poulos

Ernest T. Poulos (February 18, 1926 - March 30, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Gregory Duncan Cameron

Gregory Duncan "Don" Cameron (c.1894 - July 11, 1952) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer who won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1943.

H. Ryan Price

Henry Ryan Price 16 August 1912 – 16 August 1986) was a British Thoroughbred horse trainer in both flat and National Hunt racing.

Haras du Quesnay

In 1958 the farm was acquired by prominent French horseman Alec Head, a descendant of the trainers who founded the English Racing Colony in Chantilly, Oise.

Hatoof

Hatoof (born January 26, 1989 in Versailles, Kentucky) is a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who competed internationally out of a base in Chantilly, France under trainer Criquette Head for owner Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Jacques Wertheimer

Alec Head trained for the family until his retirement in 1984 but for a number of years continued to act as their bloodstock advisor.

James L. Boldridge

James L. Boldridge (December 17, 1868 - May 18, 1918) was a famous horse trainer in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and is the only other African-American other than Hiram Young buried in an Independence, Missouri cemetery along with other honored city leaders/pioneers, at a time when African-American burials were segregated.

John L. Rotz

While working at Thistledown Racecourse in North Randall, Ohio in 1975, he met his wife, Mary, whose sister was a horse trainer at the track.

John O. Hertler

John O. Hertler (born September 17, 1950 in Ridgewood, Queens) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

John Singleton the Younger

After his big race success, Singleton spent time in France, as trainer to the Duke of Orleans, but this employment came to an end with the coming of the French Revolution.

Les Lear

Leslie Lear (born on August 22, 1918 in Grafton, North Dakota; died January 5, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) was a National Football League and Canadian Football League player and coach as well as an owner and trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.

Following his retirement from football, Les Lear became involved in Thoroughbred horse racing both as a horse trainer and an owner.

Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad (born January 19, 1949 in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer.

Noel Chance

Noel Chance (born 18 December 1951) is an Irish racehorse trainer based at Upper Lambourn, Berkshire.

Placid Ark

Bred at Asprey Stud near Pinjarra by H.B (Pip) Dent, Placid Ark was purchased at the Sunspeed Yearling Sales for $5,000 for a novice eight-person syndicate headed by Hotelier Barry McGrath on the recommendation of Ascot Racecourse trainer Wally Mitchell.

Riverman

Trained by Alec Head, Riverman was sent to the track in 1971 where he won the Prix Yacowlef and finished second in the Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte.

Tan Chin Nam

The principal owner for one of Australia's most successful horse trainers, Bart Cummings, Tan has had a successful working relationship with Cummings for more than thirty years.

Venetia Williams

Venetia Williams (born Scorrier, Cornwall, England on 10 May 1960) is a British racehorse trainer specialising in National Hunt racing.

Wertheimer et Frère

Alec Head trained for the family in Europe until his retirement in 1984 but for a number of years continued to act as their bloodstock advisor.


see also

Abbotsford House

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Anthony Cruz

Anthony S. Cruz (born 1956), Hong Kong horse trainer and former jockey

Benton, Illinois

Noble Threewitt, thoroughbred race horse trainer, born here in 1911

Casey's Shadow

Down on his luck Louisiana horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) dreams of winning the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.

Chan Siu Kwan

Chan Siu Kwan's father Chan Pak Hung was the Hong Kong Jockey Champions in the 1986/1987 racing season and now works as a horse trainer for the Macau Jockey Club.

Colin Hayes

His son David followed in his footsteps and is a horse trainer.

Jodi Ewart Shadoff

Her family now lives in Middleham and is involved in horse racing; her father is a former jockey and horse trainer.

Laura Bechtolsheimer

A granddaughter of the German billionaire property magnate Karl-Heinz Kipp who founded the Massa chain of department stores, Bechtolsheimer was born in Mainz, Germany in 1985 to German parents Wilfried, an entrepreneur and horse trainer, and Ursula.

Lester Reiff

John Reiff is a US Racing Hall of Fame inductee and Delbert Reiff was a horse trainer that ran a horse importing business from Maisons-Laffitte, France.

Mary Ann Black

Mary Ann de Mestre née Black (1801–1861) was the wife of Prosper de Mestre (1789–1844) a prominent Sydney businessman in the early 19th century; and the mother of Etienne Livingstone de Mestre (1832–1916) the trainer of the racehorse Archer who won the first and second Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862, and the foremost Australian horse trainer of his era.

Michael G. Walsh

Walsh is also related to famed Irish horse trainer Ted Walsh and his son, National Hunt Champion Ruby Walsh

Minatare, Nebraska

John A. Nerud - Thoroughbred horse trainer and owner inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1972.

R. Smith

R. Thomas Smith (1878-1957), American thoroughbred race horse trainer

Robert Frankel

Robert J. Frankel (1941–2009), American thoroughbred race horse trainer

Sihasapa

He married Josephine, an American horse trainer who had just given birth to their first child, Bessie, and together they settled in Darwen, before moving to Gorton.

The Horse Whisperer

Monty Roberts, horse trainer subject of a BBC/PBS documentary "The Real Horse Whisperer"

The Story of Seabiscuit

The film is a fictionalized account of the career of the racehorse Seabiscuit (1933–1947) with a subplot involving the romance between the niece (Temple) of a horse trainer (Barry Fitzgerald) and a jockey (Lon McCallister).

Tony Cruz

Anthony S. Cruz (born 1956), champion Thoroughbred jockey and horse trainer

West Hempstead, New York

Lucien Laurin, award-winning horse trainer who won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths in 1973.

West Ilsley

Horse Trainer Mick Channon (the ex Southampton footballer), who moved into the village after buying the stables of the former Queen's trainer, Dick Hern.