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The trainer is employed by owners to train their racehorses to run in, and hopefully win, races. They are responsible for the horse’s overall health as well as for planning the races that the horse will enter, and the training regime that will bring them to their physical peak at the crucial time.
Each trainer is required to be licensed by the Jockey Club, and may have anything up to 150 horses within their care. With so many horses to be responsible for, trainers often have assistants, head grooms and head travelling grooms, in addition to all the stable staff they employ.
There are trainers yards dotted all over Great Britain. However there are certain places where the racing tradition is very strong and there is a particularly high concentration of yards and gallops where they train their horses.
The village of Lambourn in Berkshire is packed with trainers yards with some of the top Jumps based in the village or nearby area. Newmarket in Suffolk is known as Flat racing’s HQ. Horseracing dominates the town and in the early mornings, traffic is halted as trainers send their horses from the yard to the various training gallops. Further north, there are significant training centres in Middleham and Malton, both in Yorkshire.
For a full list of trainers in Britain, you can browse our Trainers Directory. You can also read profiles on some of the top Jumps and Flat trainers in our Go Racing section.
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