Chris Gordon

Gordon took out his licence in 2021 and has since trained 187 career winners. In the last 12 months alone, he has sent out 45 winners from 258 runners — that's roughly 1 in every 6 races, a 17% win rate — and that number matters because it represents a dramatic improvement on where he was just a year ago, when he was winning 1 in every 10. Doubling your win rate inside a single season is not a refinement, it's a transformation, and it suggests a yard that has figured something out.

The headline moments back that up. Gordon has won 7 top-level races in his career, at some of the most prestigious venues in Britain — Haydock Park, Doncaster, and Ascot. A Class 1 winner at Ascot in December 2025 is the kind of result that gets you taken seriously in any conversation about British training. These are not small wins on quiet afternoons; these are the races that define careers.

If there is one track where Gordon looks almost unbeatable right now, it is Haydock Park. Four winners from just 5 runners is a staggering return — that means his horses win there 4 times out of every 5, and in a sport where even the very best trainers expect to lose more often than they win, that borders on the freakish. Two of those wins came on the same day, 22 November 2025, which is the kind of afternoon that trainers remember for a long time.

The partnership with jockey Freddie Gordon is the engine behind much of this. Across 169 rides together, the pair have combined for 37 winners — winning roughly 1 in every 4½ times they go out, a 22% win rate that is meaningfully better than Gordon's overall average. That gap matters: it means something specific happens when these two work together, a familiarity and understanding that translates into results. Four years in, a rapidly improving record, and a collection of top-level wins that most trainers never accumulate — Chris Gordon is building something worth watching.