Horses in Training 2023

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We don't cut any corners. You can't do that if you want to look after horses properly. This is not a factory where you turn off the machines early on Friday evening and start them up again on Monday. Although last season was shortened two months by the pandemic we won the first race of the campaign at Southwell in July and the last one at Sandown at the end of April. As ever, The Castlebridge Consignment offers a sizeable contingent of 101 with the highly rated trio of AL RUFAA, FUNDAMENTAL and MAGICAL MORNING set to star. The largest trainer’s consignment is the 54 strong team from Mark Johnston’s Kingsley Park which includes the 109 Timeform-rated three-year-old DANCING KING, winner of the Group 3 March Stakes at Goodwood on his last start. Richard Hannon’s East Everleigh Stables has 51 catalogued, Andrew Balding’s Park House Stables 36 and Roger Varian’s Carlburg Stables will offer 32. Irish trainers including Jim Bolger, John Murphy, Joseph O’Brien, Michael O’Callaghan, Andy Oliver and Dermot Weld are also well-represented, as are French-based trainers Henri-Francois Devin, Mario Barrati and Eoghan O’Neill. So this seems the ideal time to give you an update on a number of interesting horses to follow over the season... READ ABOUT PAUL'S HURDLERS HERE. The World's Largest Horses in Training Sale December Yearling Sale, November 21 December Foal Sale, November 23 - 26 December Mare Sale, November 28 - December 1

Our horses deserve the best of care. They need a lot of attention and Clifford Baker, my head lad and right hand man, and I make sure they get it.

Horses/Fillies in Training, Broodmares & Yearlings Craven Breeze Up Sale, April 11 - 13 Guineas Breeze Up & Horses in Training Sale, April 26 - 28 We have dealt with every situation over the years, know how to work things out and it shows in the results which include 132 Grade 1 winners and a dozen Trainers' titles. You could say it has taken me 30 years to learn what I am doing. Hopefully I have got the hang of it now and I am looking forward to the next 30 years. Taking it easy and reducing the numbers is the last thing in my mind.

The vast strings of the likes of Andrew Balding, Richard Hannon and Charlie Johnston set against other yards who would once have had well over 100 horses in their care, but now muster barely two dozen. The shifting plates of the sport. New names with just three or four horses, other new names with 40. A jumps trainer with a team of 20, the majority of which are aged either four or five, another with seven horses, including two 14-year-olds and a 15-year-old.We have never had so much success by the start of October. In truth the horses have been running consistently well for 12 months and continue to look amazing. In that time we have had almost 200 winners. I've now trained more than 3,350 winners and am already working towards the next milestone of 4,000. I love what I do with a passion and am as ambitious as ever as we approach the core jumps season which gets under way at Chepstow this weekend. While we have a system that works really well you can't sit still in this game and each year we try to change and tweak a few things which will hopefully bring out a bit of improvement.