Our Trainers

Based in the heart of the Vale of Glamorgan countryside, Evan Williams has achieved the astonishing feat of saddling horses to finish placed in five consecutive Grand Nationals between 2009 and 2013 with horses State of Play and Cappa Bleu. He has earned over £3.7 million in prize money during the past five seasons and won a number of top races throughout his career, with the Coral Gold Cup Chase (Hennessy), Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle, Coral Welsh Grand National Handicap Chase to name a few.

Evan was heavily involved in training and riding point-to-pointers before developing into a multiple Grade 1-winning trainer with 1000+ winners. He buys the majority of his horses himself - something that has proved very effective - and had his first Grade 1 victory in 2003 with Sunray, a runner he purchased himself for only £700. Evan runs the yard with the help of his family and is not one to delegate much, overseeing the horses in training in the morning and educating the future generations in the afternoon.

Dr. Richard Newland is best known for his handling of the 2014 Grand National winner Pineau De Re, but it has been the shrewd placing of his string and an uncanny ability to improve horses that has seen his training career soar to new heights.

In addition to the Grand National, Dr Newland has several remarkable wins under his belt, including the Grade 2 Rising Stars Chase with Captain Tom Cat, the Imperial Cup won by Ebony Express and the Cheltenham Festival's Coral Cup with Burntoakboy. He enjoyed a career-best of 66 winners during the 2021/22 jumps season, earning almost £700,000 in prize money that year, and recently celebrated his 550th overall winner.

He is particularly well-known for his ability to transform the form of horses, and has had huge success with 12-time winner Vosne Romanee, as well as Beau Bay, whose BHA rating rose from 102 to 142 under his care.

Ed has trained over 400 winners and has had a stakes winner every year since taking out his licence. The quality of his string has gradually improved over the years and he finally got that elusive Group 1 winner when Starman won the July Cup in 2021. In 2022 Dreamloper landed the Group 1 Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp, followed by the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, becoming Ed's first dual Group 1 winner. Ed loves to travel his horses and has trained stakes winners in France, Germany and Australia as well as gaining some important black type with fillies in North America.

Ed is an experienced horseman with a hands on approach to training. He prides himself on communication and getting to know his horses, staff and owners. Not from a racing back ground but brought up riding, he caught the bug early on thanks to his parent's passion for horses and racing. Educated at Radley College, Ed knew from an early age that training racehorses was what he wanted to do. His apprenticeship started at Watership Down Stud and took him to Australia and France before coming home to work for Roger Charlton followed by Luca Cumani whom he was assistant to for four years. Like both Roger and Luca, Ed has an individual approach to training and prides himself on placing his horses in the right races.

In a remarkably short time since obtaining his training licence in 2015, George has already had multiple Group victories along with international wins, and we are delighted to have him within our training ranks for 2023.

Before setting up on his own at Eve Stables in Newmarket, George gained an excellent grounding in the industry while working under the likes of Michael Bell, Paul Nicholls and Lady Cecil. He also did a stint at Belmont Park with trainer Eddie Kenneally, cementing his knowledge of the international racing programme.

He has already produced a stallion in James Garfield, who won the Mill Reef Stakes, the Greenham Stakes and took second in the Maurice de Gheest. George had his best year yet in 2022, doubling his wins from the previous year and achieving an excellent strike rate of 18%.