Horse trainer
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In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with 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 equestrianism discipline, such as show jumping, reining, rodeo, sport horse disciplines, training of a specific horse breed, starting young horses, or working with problem horses. There are a wide variety of horse training methods used to teach the horse to do the things humans want them to do. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses once trained or prize money available in competition. However, as a rule, most horse trainers earn, at best, a modest income which often requires supplementation from a second job or additional horse-related business, such as horse boarding or riding lessons.
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[edit] Prominent race horse trainers
[edit] United Kingdom & Ireland
- John Gosden
- Michael Stoute
- Henry Cecil
- Mick Channon
- Luca Cumani
- Aidan O'Brien
- Dick Hern
- Mark Johnston
- Henrietta Knight
- Paul Nicholls
- Vincent O'Brien
- Ted Walsh
[edit] United States
- Steve Asmussen
- Bob Baffert
- Patrick L. Biancone
- Christophe Clement
- Michael Dickinson
- Robert J. Frankel
- H. Allen Jerkens
- D. Wayne Lukas
- Richard Mandella
- Michael R. Matz
- Ron McAnally
- Shug McGaughey
- Kiaran McLaughlin
- William I. Mott
- Todd Pletcher
- Monty Roberts
- Barclay Tagg
- Stacy Westfall
- Charlie Whittingham
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)
