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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....
, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. As such, he or she takes 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
Equestrianism

Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving horses. This broad description includes both use of horses for practical, working animal purposes as well as recreational activities and animals in sport....
 discipline, such as show jumping
Show jumping

Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrianism events that also includes dressage, eventing, Show hunter and equitation....
, reining
Reining

Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the equestrianism guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops....
, rodeo
Rodeo

Rodeo is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia....
, sport horse
Sport horse

Sport horse, or Sporthorse, is a term used to describe a type of horse, rather than any particular breed. The term generally refers to horses bred for the traditional Olympic equestrianism sporting events of dressage, eventing, show jumping, and combined driving....
 disciplines, training of a specific horse breed
List of horse breeds

File:Meyers b12 s0947a.jpgFile:Meyers b12 s0947b.jpg This page is a list of horse and pony breeds, and also includes terms used to describe types of horses that are not breeds but are commonly mistaken for breeds....
, starting young horses, or working with problem horses.






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In horse racing
Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....
, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. As such, he or she takes 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
Equestrianism

Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving horses. This broad description includes both use of horses for practical, working animal purposes as well as recreational activities and animals in sport....
 discipline, such as show jumping
Show jumping

Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping" or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrianism events that also includes dressage, eventing, Show hunter and equitation....
, reining
Reining

Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the equestrianism guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops....
, rodeo
Rodeo

Rodeo is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia....
, sport horse
Sport horse

Sport horse, or Sporthorse, is a term used to describe a type of horse, rather than any particular breed. The term generally refers to horses bred for the traditional Olympic equestrianism sporting events of dressage, eventing, show jumping, and combined driving....
 disciplines, training of a specific horse breed
List of horse breeds

File:Meyers b12 s0947a.jpgFile:Meyers b12 s0947b.jpg This page is a list of horse and pony breeds, and also includes terms used to describe types of horses that are not breeds but are commonly mistaken for breeds....
, starting young horses, or working with problem horses. Each trainer has different methods that they use to teach the horse to do the things that they want them to do. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses once trained or prize money available in competition.

Prominent race horse trainers


United Kingdom & Ireland


  • Henry Cecil
    Henry Cecil

    Henry Richard Amherst Cecil is a successful England horse racing trainer who has had many winners in the Epsom Derby, 1,000 Guineas Stakes and 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Epsom Oaks and the St....
  • Mick Channon
    Mick Channon

    Michael Roger 'Mick' Channon is a sportsman who enjoyed a career as a Forward with Southampton F.C. and England national football team in the 1970s and later became a hugely successful racehorse trainer....
  • Dick Hern
    Dick Hern

    William Richard "Dick" Hern, Royal Victorian Order, was a Thoroughbred horse racing Horse trainer and winner of sixteen British Classic Races between 1962 and 1995, and was British flat racing Champion Trainer on four occasions....
  • Mark Johnston
    Mark Johnston

    Mark Johnston is a racehorse trainer based in Middleham, North Yorkshire, England.In 2004 he won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes with Attraction. Other successful horses he has trained are Mister Baileys, winner of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, Shamardal, 2004 Cartier Racing Award, and Double Trigger, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup....
  • Henrietta Knight
  • Aidan O'Brien
    Aidan O'Brien

    Aidan P. O'Brien , is an Ireland horse racing horse trainer. He is the private trainer for John Magnier and his associates at Coolmore Stud and heads up the training operation at Ballydoyle Stables in County Tipperary....
  • Vincent O'Brien
    Vincent O'Brien

    Dr. Michael Vincent O'Brien is a retired Ireland horse racing horse trainer. He was born in Churchtown, County Cork, County Cork, Ireland. He is no relation to his namesake, Aidan O'Brien, another Irish race horse trainer....
  • Ted Walsh
    Ted Walsh

    Ted Walsh is an amateur jockey turned racehorse trainer, based in Kill, County Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland. He was born and raised in Co. Cork....
  • Liam Roche


United States


  • Michael Dickinson
  • Christophe Clement
    Christophe Clement

    Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States....
  • Monty Roberts
    Monty Roberts

    Monty Roberts is a horse trainer whose 1996 autobiography, The Man Who Listens to Horses, became a best-seller.He wrote that by personally observing horses in the wild, he learned to "listen" to their non-verbal "language"; that when horses understood that they can trust you, they will decide to be with you....
  • D. Wayne Lukas
    D. Wayne Lukas

    Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse race history and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee....
  • Robert J. Frankel
  • William I. Mott
  • H. Allen Jerkens
    H. Allen Jerkens

    Harry Allen Jerkens is an United States Thoroughbred race horse Hall of Fame horse trainer.Jerkens' father owned a riding academy on Long Island that led to his interest in horse racing and in 1950 he trained his first winner....
  • Ron McAnally
    Ron McAnally

    Ronald L. McAnally is an United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Called "one of the most honored and respected of North American trainers" by The New York Times, as a child, he and his four siblings were placed in an orphanage following the death of their mother....
  • Charlie Whittingham
    Charlie Whittingham

    Charles Whittingham was an United States thoroughbred race horse horse trainer. Born in San Diego, California, Whittingham began working around race horses at a young age and was eventually taken on as an assistant by Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro....
  • Bob Baffert
    Bob Baffert

    Bob Baffert is an United States horse owner and Horse trainer. He graduated from the University of Arizona Racetrack Management Program with a Bachelor of Science degree....
  • Richard Mandella
    Richard Mandella

    Richard E. Mandella is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.Mandella's father, a blacksmith, introduced him to horses at an early age and while still in high school he began breaking and training horses at a nearby ranch....
  • Michael R. Matz
  • Todd Pletcher
    Todd Pletcher

    Todd Pletcher is a leading American Thoroughbred horse horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year, while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006....
  • Patrick L. Biancone
  • Barclay Tagg
    Barclay Tagg

    Barclay Tagg is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. A 1961 graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Animal Husbandry, he is best known for conditioning Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide...and now for the impressive stable he's been able to build after Funny Cide, his "Big Horse" ....


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
    D. Wayne Lukas

    Darrell Wayne Lukas is a former educator who became one of the most successful horse trainers in American Thoroughbred horse race history and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee....
     (14)
  • Sam Hildreth
    Sam Hildreth

    Samuel Clay Hildreth was an United States Thoroughbred horse race National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame horse trainer and owner.Born in Independence, Missouri, Sam Hildreth began his training career in 1887, competing at racetracks in the Midwestern United States with such horses as the good racemare Hurley Burley, the dam of Burgomas...
     (9)
  • Charlie Whittingham
    Charlie Whittingham

    Charles Whittingham was an United States thoroughbred race horse horse trainer. Born in San Diego, California, Whittingham began working around race horses at a young age and was eventually taken on as an assistant by Hall of Fame trainer Horatio Luro....
     (7)
  • Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons
    Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons

    James Edward Fitzsimmons was a thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, Fitzsimmons began his career in 1885 working at a racetrack as a stable boy....
    , Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones (5)
  • Bob Baffert
    Bob Baffert

    Bob Baffert is an United States horse owner and Horse trainer. He graduated from the University of Arizona Racetrack Management Program with a Bachelor of Science degree....
    , Laz Barrera
    Laz Barrera

    Lazaro Sosa Barrera , was a Cuban-born National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Havana, "Laz" Barrera was one of nine brothers who went on to become involved in thoroughbred horse racing in the United States....
    , Ben A. Jones
    Ben A. Jones

    Benjamin Allyn Jones was a thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Parnell, Missouri, Ben Jones went into the business of breeding and training of thoroughbreds during the first decade of the 20th century, racing his horses on small circuits in the American West and in Mexico....
    , William Molter (4)
  • Hirsch Jacobs
    Hirsch Jacobs

    Hirsch Jacobs was an American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.Jacobs was the United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by wins 1933-39, 1941-44, the United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by earnings, 1946, 1960, 1965, and the U.S....
    , Edward A. Neloy
    Edward A. Neloy

    Edward Albert "Eddie" Neloy was an American Thoroughbred horse racing horse trainer. At age fourteen, he began working at a racetrack then joined the United States Army during World War II....
    , James G. Rowe, Sr. (3)


Australia


  • Bart Cummings
    Bart Cummings

    James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings Order of Australia is one of the most successful Australian horse racing Horse trainers, and is known as the "Cups King", referring to the Melbourne Cup, as he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record twelve times....
  • Tommy Smith
  • Colin Hayes
    Colin Hayes

    Colin Sidney Hayes Order of Australia Order of the British Empire was a champion trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Adelaide, Australia....
  • Gai Waterhouse
    Gai Waterhouse

    Gai Waterhouse is a Scotland-born, New Zealand-bred, Australian resident horse trainer, businesswoman and a former actress...
  • Lee Freedman
    Lee Freedman

    David Lee Freedman is a prominent Australian racehorse trainer. In partnership with brothers Anthony, Michael, and Richard, he has been a prolific winner of Australia's major races in past 20 years, with four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates, and five Melbourne Cups, including two of the three won by Makybe Diva....
  • David A. Hayes


See also

  • Horse training
    Horse training

    Horse training refers to a wide variety of practices that teach horses to perform certain behaviors when asked to do so by humans. Horses are trained to be manageable by humans for everyday care as well as for equestrianism activities from horse racing to therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities....
  • Horse racing
    Horse racing

    Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....