Leading Contenders to Be Champion Trainer In 2024

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Leading Contenders to Be Champion Trainer In 2024

 

The title of Champion Trainer is the greatest honour any trainer can receive in Great Britain in Flat racing. The award has been dominated by Charlie Appleby and John Gosden in recent years. In 2023, the latter was successful alongside his son Thady Gosden, whose name is now also on the licence.

Here is a look at the leading contenders to lift the trophy in 2024 at the end of the British Flat season.

Aidan O’Brien


Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien leads the standings in the 2024 British Trainers’ Championship as he has had a lot of big race winners at the major meetings. Derby winner City Of Troy has been his standout horse, with the talented three-year-old landing the Eclipse Stakes and Juddmonte International this season.

O’Brien is bidding to win his first British Trainers’ Championship since 2017. He has dominated the Irish Trainers’ Championship since then, and this year he could pull off an impressive double across the Irish Sea.

The six-time British Champion Trainer will have a great chance of extending his tally at the top of the standings in the final British Classic of the campaign. He is set to saddle Illinois and Grosvenor Square in the St Leger at Doncaster.

John and Thady Gosden

Defending champions John and Thady Gosden have already eclipsed £3 million in prize money this season in what has been another fantastic year. Audience has been one of their horses that has shone on the track. He was successful in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury earlier in the year.

The duo has a very exciting colt to look forward to in the future with Field Of Gold who showed his class in the Solario Stakes at Sandown on his latest run. He is set to be involved in some of the leading two-year-old races at the end of the campaign, while the pair will also have one eye on the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket next season.

John Gosden has been Champion Trainer six times in his career. Only five trainers in history have won the title more times than the Clarehaven Stables-based operator.

Andrew Balding

Classic-winning trainer Andrew Balding is enjoying one of the best seasons of his career. He has already trained over 100 winners in Great Britain in the 2024 campaign. If the championship was decided on winners and no prize money, he would be leading the way.

Andrew Balding’s stable is growing all the time, as many owners want their horses to be trained by the former 2,000 Guineas winner. He is one of the trainers on RaceShare stable which means you can join one of the leading horse racing syndicates today and have a horse involved at Kingsclere. These shares start from as little as £33.

Should Balding win the Trainers’ Championship this season he will not be the first member of his family to lift the trophy. His father Ian was victorious in 1971. Andrew took over the training operation at Park House Stables in 2003. Since then, he has consistently been at the top end of the standings each season.

The 2024 Champion Trainer will be crowned the winner on British Champions Day at Ascot on the 18th of October.

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