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 David Hall Brian Kan Almond Lee Andy T. W. Leung Frankie Lor Manfred K. L. Man 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 Tetsuya Kimura Dai Muneishi Hirofumi Shii Yūichi Shikato Naosuke Sugai Haruki Sugiyama Katsuhiko Sumii Koshiro Take Yasuo Tomomichi Ryuji Wada 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
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