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Jewson Novices' Handicap Chase
The Centenary Novices' Handicap Chase, known for sponsorship purposes as the Paddy's Reward Club Novices' Handicap Chase, is a Listed National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (2 miles 4 furlongs and 10 yards, or 4,033 metres), and during its running there are sixteen fences to be jumped. It was a handicap race for novice chasers with a handicap rating between 0 and 145, and it takes place each year in March. The event was originally run at Cheltenham Racecourse and was established when a fourth day was added to the Cheltenham Festival in 2005. The winning ride by Mattie Batchelor in the inaugural edition subsequently won the Lester Award for Jump Ride of the Year. The race was sponsored by Jewson from 2005 to 2010 and run as the Jewson Novices' Handicap Chase on the third day of the Festival. Jewson transferred their sponsorshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandown Park Racecourse
Sandown Park is a horse racing course and leisure venue in Esher, Surrey, England, located in the outer suburbs of London. It hosts 5 Grade One National Hunt racing, National Hunt races and one Group One, Group 1 flat race, the Eclipse Stakes. It regularly has horse racing during afternoons, evenings and on weekends, and also hosts many non-racing events such as trade shows, wedding fairs, toy fairs, car shows and auctions, property shows, concerts, and even some private events. It was requisitioned by the War Department (United Kingdom), War Department from 1940–1945 for World War II. The venue has hosted bands such as UB40, Madness (band), Madness, Girls Aloud, Spandau Ballet and Simply Red. The racecourse is close to Esher railway station, served by trains from London Waterloo railway station, London Waterloo. There is a secondary exit from Esher station which is open on race days, this exit leads directly into the racecourse and Lower Green, Esher. History Sandown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse Trainer
A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines. Some responsibilities trainers have are caring for the animals' physical needs, as well as teaching them good behaviors and/or coaching them for events, which may include contests and other riding purposes. The level of education and the yearly salary they can earn for this profession may differ depending on where the person is employed. History Domestication of the horse, Horse domestication by the Botai culture in Kazakhstan dates to about 3500 BC. Written records of horse training as a pursuit has been documented as early as 1350 BC, by Kikkuli, the Hurrian "master horse trainer" of the Hittite Empire. Another source of early recorded history of horse training as a discipline comes from the Ancient Greece, Greek writer Xenophon, in his treatise ''On Horsemanship''. Writing circa 350 BC, Xenophon addressed Horse training, starting young horses, selecting older animals, and proper Horse groom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Waley-Cohen
Sam Bernard Waley-Cohen (born 15 April 1982) is an English entrepreneur and retired amateur National Hunt jockey. Horse racing Waley-Cohen was reported in the sports pages in 2007 when he came 5th on his father's horse Liberthine in the Grand National. He won the delayed 2010 King George VI Chase in January 2011 on Long Run, preventing Kauto Star from winning the race for a record fifth consecutive year. In 2011 Waley-Cohen also won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Long Run.The Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2012Online accessed 9 Mar 12 He is the first amateur jockey in 30 years to win the race. In the 2012 and 2013 runnings they finished third to Synchronised and Bobs Worth respectively. In 2022 Waley-Cohen announced that he would be retiring and that his 2022 Grand National ride on Noble Yeats would be his last. He went on to win the race with final odds at 50/1. Waley-Cohen became the first amateur jockey to win the Grand National since Marcus Armytage on Mr Frisk in 1990. Having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunt Ball
Hunt Ball (foaled on 11 March 2005) is a popular Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse. He was bred in Ireland and originally trained in Great Britain. His most noted success to date was winning the Centenary Novices' Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on 13 March 2012. Background Between November 2011 and March 2012, Hunt Ball, trained by Keiran Burke, shot to fame with a significant rise through the handicap ranks and a weight increase in excess of 80lbs. He won seven races and climbed from a mark of 69 to 154, culminating in victory in the Pulteney Land Investments Novices’ Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, which cemented his popularity amongst racing fans. He was sent off the 13/2 favourite and raced prominently under his regular rider Nick Scholfield. He was pulled out of the pack and led the field just after 2 out before storming clear to win. Hunt Ball went on to win Taunton's richest-ever prize on 4 April 2013 after finishing second in the Grade 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hobbs
Philip Hobbs (born 26 July 1955) is a British horse racing, racehorse horse trainer, trainer specializing mainly in National Hunt racing. He is based at stables near Minehead, Somerset. His biggest wins have come with Flagship Uberalles in the 2002 Queen Mother Champion Chase, Rooster Booster (horse), Rooster Booster in the 2003 Champion Hurdle, Detroit City (horse), Detroit City in the 2006 Triumph Hurdle and Massini's Maguire in the 2007 Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle, Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle. He has also trained flat race winners, notably winning the 2006 Cesarewitch Handicap with Detroit City. He was played by Nicholas Farrell in the 2020 film Dream Horse about Welsh Grand National winner Dream Alliance. He had his 3,000th winner at Newbury on 11 February 2023 with Zanza. Cheltenham winners (19) * Champion Hurdle - (1) Rooster Booster (horse), Rooster Booster (2003) * Queen Mother Champion Chase - (1) Flagship Uberalles (2002) * Supreme Novices' H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnson (jockey)
Richard Johnson (born 21 July 1977) is a retired England, English National Hunt jockey. Johnson is the second most prolific winner in the history of National Hunt Racing behind Tony McCoy, Sir Anthony McCoy, a long-time rival of Johnson's, with over 3500 winners. Richard Dunwoody previously held the record with 1874. Johnson holds the record for the most appearances in the Grand National and also the record for the most rides in the race without a victory. Johnson has twice won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, on Looks Like Trouble in 2000 and Native River in 2018. Johnson has been British jump racing Champion Jockey, Champion Jockey on four occasions and has been a runner-up 17 times in the Championship (on 16 occasions to McCoy and once in 2020 to the new champion Brian Hughes). Background and early career Johnson comes from a racing family with his father being an amateur jockey and his mother, Sue Johnson (trainer), Sue Johnson, a successful trainer. Johnson left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Nicholls (horse Racing)
Paul Frank Nicholls (born 17 April 1962) is a British National Hunt horse trainer with stables at Ditcheat, Somerset. A relatively successful jump jockey, Nicholls has become the leading National Hunt trainer of his generation in Britain, finishing the 2007–08 season with 155 winners and a record £4 million in prize money. As of April 2023, he has trained over 3,500 winners, won the 2012 Grand National, four Cheltenham Gold Cups and has been crowned British jump racing Champion Trainer fourteen times. Early life and education The son of a policeman, Nicholls was educated at Marlwood School, Alveston before leaving at 16 to take up work in a local point-to-point yard. Jockey career Nicholls turned conditional in 1982 under the tutelage of Josh Gifford before joining David Barons in 1985, and became stable jockey in 1986. It was with Barons that Nicholls was most closely associated during his riding career. The pair enjoyed numerous big race successes, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timmy Murphy
Timothy James Murphy (born 20 August 1974 in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, Ireland), known as Timmy Murphy, is a retired Irish jockey who competed mostly in National Hunt racing, National Hunt racing. A multiple Grade 1-winning rider, he is best known for his victory on Comply or Die in the 2008 Grand National. He overcame problems with alcohol, which had led to a prison sentence after a drunken incident on a plane in 2002, to resume a successful career and win the 2005 jump jockey of the year Lester Award. He won the Irish Grand National on Davids Lad in 2001, and the Scottish Grand National on Merigo in 2010 and 2012. He had eight winners at the Cheltenham Festival, the first in 1997 and the last in 2009. He recorded his 1000th win in Britain in 2010. Following an injury in a fall in 2010 he was unable to regain his licence to ride over jumps and switched codes, riding on Flat racing, the flat from 2015 until 2018, when he retired from race riding. Background Murphy wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Taaffe
Tom Taaffe (b. 15 June 1963) is a former Irish racehorse trainer who was based at Portree Stables, Boston, Ardclough, Straffan, in County Kildare. He trained the 2005 Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse Kicking King, who also won the Boxing Day King George VI Chase in 2004 and 2005. Life and career He began training in the 1994/95 jumps season, having had a successful career as a professional jump jockey for the Arthur Moore stable, havin ridden over 400 winners, topped by winning the Irish Grand National on Brittany Boy in 1987. The son of jockey and trainer, Pat Taaffe, who famously rode Arkle to a Cheltenham Gold Cup treble in the 1960s and trained 1974 Gold Cup winner Captain Christy, he emulated his father's success by training Kicking King to win the same race in 2005. The horse also had back to back wins for Taaffe in the Boxing Day King George VI Chase in 2004 and 2005, ridden by Barry Geraghty. Taaffe also trained Ninetieth Minute, who won the Coral Cup at the 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Geraghty
Barry Geraghty (born 16 September 1979) is a retired Irish jockey. He is the second most successful jockey of all time at the Cheltenham Festival. Geraghty rode his first winner in January 1997 and three years later he became the Irish Champion jump jockey for the first time. His first win in England was the 1998 Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on Miss Orchestra for trainer Jessica Harrington. He rode his first Cheltenham winner on the Jessica Harrington-trained Moscow Flyer in the 2002 Arkle Chase. He won the Grand National in 2003 on Monty's Pass. Also that year he won five races at the Cheltenham Festival, including the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Moscow Flyer, and was voted Irish sports personality of the year. In the 2003–04 season he became Champion Irish jump jockey for the second time and won the Stayers' Hurdle at Cheltenham on the Jonjo O'Neill-trained Iris's Gift. Geraghty and Moscow Flyer won their second Champion Chase at the 2005 Cheltenham Festi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Lee (jockey)
Graham Lee (born 16 December 1975 in Galway, Ireland) is an Irish jockey. Based in England, he won the 2004 Grand National on Amberleigh House. In 2012 he switched to riding on the flat and won the Ascot Gold Cup on Trip To Paris in 2015. National Hunt career Lee joined the team of trainer Howard Johnson permanently in 2002, after leaving the stables of Malcolm Jefferson and was largely responsible for the schooling and on-track development of horses owned by Graham Wylie including Inglis Drever, No Refuge and Arcalis. Lee held freelance status, and rode for many other trainers during these years, most notably Ginger McCain.Racing: Ginger’s revival brings down the house independent.co.uk, 4 April 2004, accessed 3 April 2010. In an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fanshawe
James Fanshawe is a British racehorse trainer. Based at Pegasus Stables in Newmarket, he has saddled 26 Group 1 winners. Although training horses mainly on the flat, he holds a dual licence and trained two winners of the Champion Hurdle. Background Fanshawe was born into an equestrian family. His father Brian Fanshawe was an amateur jockey who won the 1967 National Hunt Chase on Master Tammy and his grandfather was the equestrian Richard Fanshawe. Fanshawe was a boarder at Stowe School. Having worked for National Hunt trainers George Fairbairn and Josh Gifford as well as his aunt's husband David Nicholson, he moved to Newmarket and worked for flat trainer Michael Stoute. Career Fanshawe took out his own licence in 1990 to train at Pegasus Stables, the yard that had been built by jockey Fred Archer. He saddled his first winner, Black Sapphire, at Salisbury in May 1990. Later that year, he achieved his first Group race success when Radwell won the group 3 Solario Stakes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
