Charlie Fellowes

Those six Class 1 victories — the biggest races British racing has to offer — tell the most interesting story. Goodwood, Newbury, Haydock Park: these are prestigious venues where the best horses in the country turn up, and Fellowes has beaten them. Back-to-back top-level wins in spring 2023, at Newbury in April and Newmarket in May, suggested a trainer operating well above his experience level. The Haydock win in September 2024 added another line to a record that already looked impressive for someone so early in their career.

On the day-to-day numbers, Fellowes does particularly well on normal ground conditions — the standard, neither wet nor dry surfaces that make up a good chunk of the British racing calendar. On that surface he wins 9 from 63 races, a rate of around 1 in 7, which is noticeably better than his overall average. Wolverhampton also stands out: 4 winners from just 21 runners there is a strong return at an all-weather track that suits a certain type of horse, and it suggests he knows exactly which animals to target at that venue.

His most regular jockey partnership is with Kieran Shoemark, who has ridden 46 times for the yard and won on 3 of them — roughly 1 in every 15 rides together. That win rate of around 7% is actually below the yard's overall average, which is unusual. It may simply reflect Shoemark being called up for trickier assignments, or horses still finding form. One partnership worth noting for different reasons is with Sword Of Wessex: eight races together without a win is the kind of combination that keeps a trainer up at night, though it is not unusual for a specific horse to take time, or simply to be placed in competitive fields.

Still only four years in, Fellowes is building a record that already has genuine highlights. The top-level wins are real, the Wolverhampton numbers are quietly impressive, and the trajectory points upward.