Charlie Fellowes

His overall record backs that up. Since taking out his licence in 2021, Fellowes has trained 126 career winners — a healthy total for someone still relatively new to the job. In the last twelve months, he has sent out 17 winners from 229 runners, which works out at roughly 1 in every 13 races. That is down from closer to 1 in every 10 last season, a dip worth watching, though it has to be said that the quality of those winners has never been in question.

One area where the numbers really jump out is wet ground. When conditions are soft and the field is splashing through mud, Fellowes has won 7 from 41 races — that is 17%, or nearly 1 in every 6. In a sport where many yards quietly struggle when the ground turns, that is a real edge, and it suggests he either targets those conditions deliberately or has a particular talent for preparing horses to handle them.

His most regular partnership in the saddle is with jockey Kieran Shoemark, who has ridden 55 times for the yard and delivered 4 winners together — again around 1 in every 13. It is a functional rather than spectacular combination, though the volume of rides suggests Fellowes trusts Shoemark as a default option. The one pairing that has conspicuously failed to fire is with a horse called Sword Of Wessex: eight races together, zero wins. Every trainer has one of those combinations that just never clicks, and for Fellowes, that is clearly it.

The standout recent moment came in April and May 2023, when Fellowes landed back-to-back top-level wins at Newbury and Newmarket within six weeks of each other. For a trainer still in the early years of his career, that kind of sequence announces you to the wider public. He is still building, still learning the rhythms of the job — but the ceiling already looks impressively high.