Nigerian born Richard Fahey is one of
the UK’s leading trainers, who has racked up over 2,000 winners.
He equalled the record for most flat
winners trained in a calendar year in 2015 with 235 wins, and by the
end of the 2017 season had 200 victories to his name and earned prize
money of over £4.2m.
Fahey turned to training after a
successful ten-year stint as a jockey, where he chalked up over 100
wins and shared the conditional jockeys’ title in the 1988-89
season.
After a period running a livery, in
1993 he turned his hand to training and set up his stable at Manor
Farm, Butterwick near Malton with 10 horses.
His first taste of success came with
National Hunt performer Noyan, who won the Irish Heineken Gold Cup in
1997. That was followed by the first of five Royal Ascot winner with
Superior Premium in 2002. By the 2003 season he had saddled over 50
winners for the first time.
Fahey’s move to Musley Bank Stables
in Malton in 2005 would prove to be a turning point in his career. A
year later he broke the £1million prize money barrier and trained
over 100 winners. Last year it turned out over 200 winners including
Ribchester who took victory in the Locking Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes,
Prix Jacques Le Marois and Prix du Moulin.
He is well known for his 12-year
partnership with double champion jockey Paul Hanagan, who has
credited his success to Fahey’s abilities.
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