HORSE TRAINER

In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. As such, he takes responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and 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. Outside horse racing, most trainers specialize in a certain area, such as gaming, pleasure riding, ground work, starting the horse, or working with problem horses. Each trainer has different methods that they use to teach the horse to do the things that they want them to do.

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Prominent horse trainers

United Kingdom & Ireland

United States

Australia

Germany

Prominent horse trainers

United Kingdom & Ireland

★ John Best

★ Henry Cecil

★ Mick Channon

★ Dick Hern

★ Mark Johnston

★ Henrietta Knight

★ Aidan O'Brien

★ Vincent O'Brien

★ Ted Walsh

★ Liam Roche

United States

★ Michael Dickinson

★ Monty Roberts

★ D. Wayne Lukas

★ Bobby Frankel

★ William I. Mott

★ H. Allen Jerkens

★ Ron McAnally

★ Charlie Whittingham

★ Bob Baffert

★ Richard Mandella

★ Michael R. Matz

★ Jane Armour

★ Todd Pletcher

★ Patrick L. Biancone
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. "Jimmy" Jones (5)

★ Bob Baffert, Laz Barrera, Ben A. Jones, William Molter (4)

★ Hirsch Jacobs, Edward A. Neloy, James G. Rowe, Sr. (3)

Australia

★ Bart Cummings

★ Tommy Smith

★ Colin Hayes

★ Gai Waterhouse

★ Lee Freedman

★ David Hayes

Germany

★ Andrea Kutsch (trained by Monty Roberts)