List of race horse trainers

Race horse trainers train horses for horse racing. This involves exercising, feeding, management and, in early years, to get them used to human contact.

Once a horse is old enough to be ridden, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready by designing exercise routines tailored for each horse and its needs as well as 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. They typically collect 10% of the purse money won by the horses they are currently training.

Outside horse racing, most trainers specialize in a certain equestrianism discipline. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses one trains or prize money available in competition.

Race horse trainers by country

Australia

• Rod Bonella
• Scobie Breasley
• Fred Castledine
• Bart Cummings
• Etienne L. de Mestre
• Jack Denham
• Isaac Earnshaw
• Greg Eurell
• Seth Ferry
• Lee Freedman
• Cecil Godby
• Sol Green
• Theodore Green
• David Hall
• George Hanlon
• John Hawkes
• Colin Hayes
• David A. Hayes
• Robert Hickmott
• Jack Holt
• Sampson Hosking
• Bob Hoysted
• Pat Hyland
• Sheila Laxon
• Ciaron Maher
• Kerryn Manning
• Bob Maumill
• John F. Meagher
• Denis Pagan
• Brett Sutton
• Gai Waterhouse
• Kim Waugh
• Tommy Woodcock

Argentina

• Francisco Maschio
• Angel Penna Sr.

Barbados

• William C. Marshall
• Michael Stoute * Edward Walcott Junior * Elizabeth Deane

Canada

• Sid C. Attard
• Roger Attfield
• Reade Baker
• Macdonald Benson
• James C. Bentley
• Gary Boulanger
• Charles Boyle
• William H. Bringloe
• Josie Carroll
• Lou Cavalaris Jr.
• Reggie Cornell
• David C. Cross Jr.
• Robert T. Davies
• Jim Day
• William Donohue
• Mark Frostad
• Harry Giddings Jr.
• Lucien Laurin
• Roger Laurin
• Les Lear
• Barry Littlefield
• Jerry C. Meyer
• Gordon J. McCann
• Barbara J. Minshall
• Eva Ring
• Rayel Robinson
• William Robinson (Horse trainer)
• Gil Rowntree
• Laurie Silvera
• Yonnie Starr
• Robert Tiller
• Daniel Vella
• Francine Villeneuve

Cuba

• Laz Barrera

France

• Pascal Bary
• Patrick Biancone
• François Boutin
• Georges Bridgland
• Robert Collet
• François Doumen
• Camille du Gast
• William B. Duke
• André Fabre
• Raymond Gruppi
• John Hammond
• Criquette Head-Maarek
• Alec Head
• Freddy Head
• Éric Legrix
• Élie Lellouche
• François Mathet
• Markus Münch
• Jean-Claude Rouget
• Alain de Royer-Dupré
• Bernard Secly
• Charles Semblat
• Nash Turner
• Jimmy Winkfield
• Maurice Zilber

Germany

• Johannes Frömming
• Heinz Jentzsch
• Charlie Mills
• Peter Schiergen
• Andreas Schütz
• Andreas Suborics

Hong Kong

• Derek Cruz
• Tony Cruz
• David Ferraris
• Caspar Fownes
• David Hall
• Brian Kan
• Almond Lee
• Andy T. W. Leung
• Frankie Lor
• Manfred K. L. Man
• Anthony T. Millard
• John Moore
• Gary T. K. Ng
• Peter B. K. Ng
• Paul O'Sullivan
• Andreas Schütz
• John Size
• Sean Woods
• Dennis C. H. Yip
• Ricky P. F. Yiu

India

• Rashid Byramji
• Pesi Shroff

Ireland

Italy

• Antonio Balzarini
• Marco Botti
• Luca Cumani
• Giordano Ruffo
• Federico Tesio

Japan

• Masayoshi Ebina
• Kazuo Fujisawa
• Yuichi Fukunaga
• Katsuhiko Sumii
• Koshiro Take
• Yoshito Yahagi

New Zealand

• Tony Allan
• Murray Baker
• Cecil Devine
• Bill Hazlett
• Tony Herlihy
• Charlie Hunter
• Free Holmes
• Roger James
• Colin Jillings
• Linda Jones
• Laurie Laxon
• Sheila Laxon
• Hedwick Wilhelmina McDonald
• Trevor McKee
• Michael Moroney
• Denis Nyhan
• Mark Purdon
• Roy Purdon
• Natalie Rasmussen
• Steven Reid
• Dave O'Sullivan
• Lance O'Sullivan
• Paul O'Sullivan
• Jamie Richards
• Graeme Rogerson
• Doody Townley
• Chris Waller

Norway

• Terje Dahl
• Kjell Håkonsen
• Arnfinn Lund

Singapore

• Garnet Bougoure

South Africa

• David Ferraris
• Terrance Millard

United Arab Emirates

• Saeed bin Suroor
• Mahmood Al Zarooni

United Kingdom

United States

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 (14)
• Sam Hildreth (9)
• Charlie Whittingham (7)
• Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Horace A. Jones (5)
• Bob Baffert, Laz Barrera, Ben A. Jones, William Molter (4)
• Hirsch Jacobs, Edward A. Neloy, James G. Rowe Sr. (3)

See also

• Horse training
• Horse racing

References

1. Horse trainer
2. Horse racing
3. Dave O'Sullivan (horse trainer)
4. Thoroughbred racing
5. Harness racing
6. Glossary of North American horse racing
7. Winx (horse)
8. Easy Jet (horse)
9. Horse racing in Ireland
10. Secretariat (horse)
11. The Race by Grins
12. Ruffian (horse)
13. Melbourne Cup
14. 2023 Kentucky Derby
15. List of fictional horses
16. Group races
17. Lexington (horse)
18. Barbie Horse Adventures
19. Horse racing in Great Britain
20. John Henry (horse)