Antony Brittain

The last 12 months give a fair picture of what Brittain does. Twenty-three winners from 258 runners — that's roughly 1 in every 11 races, or about 9% — is a solid return at a level where getting horses to the track consistently is half the battle. He isn't the kind of trainer who floods the entries and hopes for the best; that ratio suggests a yard that knows where its horses belong.

Newcastle is where Brittain has built something close to a stronghold. Fifteen winners from 117 runners at one track is genuinely impressive — not just in volume, but in what it suggests about his understanding of the track, its conditions, and how to place a horse there to best effect. When a trainer keeps returning to the same track and keeps winning, it's rarely a coincidence. It speaks to relationships, local knowledge, and a knack for reading what a horse needs on a given day.

His most productive partnership with a jockey is with Cam Hardie, and the numbers here are worth a closer look. Eighteen wins from 183 rides together — around 1 in every 10 — points to genuine chemistry between trainer and rider. That kind of consistency over that many races suggests Hardie isn't just picking up spare rides; he understands the horses, and Brittain trusts him with them.

Then there's Asadjumeirah — a horse that has run an extraordinary 91 races for the yard, winning 6 of them. Six from 91 sounds modest until you consider the sheer scale of that partnership. That is a horse who has been campaigned relentlessly and kept sound enough to race, which in itself is a training achievement. It says something about the way Brittain manages his horses over the long haul, keeping them competitive and on the track when other yards might have moved on. Still only four years in, Brittain is a trainer worth watching.