Iain Jardine

The highlight of his career so far came on 22 July 2023 at Market Rasen, where he won a Class 1 race — one of the top races in Britain. Landing a race at that level is the kind of moment that defines a training career, and for a yard still in its early years, it announced Jardine as someone worth watching rather than just counting.

His most reliable ally in the saddle has been jockey Andrew Mullen, who has ridden 192 times for the yard and converted 14 of those into winners. That's roughly 1 in every 14 rides — not a flashy number, but it tells the story of a genuine working partnership built over hundreds of trips to the track together. The horse that has given Jardine some of his most satisfying moments is Gemini Man, a horse they have raced together 22 times and won with on 3 occasions. Three from 22 might not sound dramatic, but in racing, a horse you know well enough to place correctly and keep winning with is worth its weight in stable morale.

One detail worth noting: on wet or muddy ground, Jardine's runners perform noticeably well. In those conditions he has won 1 from just 7 attempts — a 14% win rate, or roughly 1 in every 7. That's meaningfully better than his overall average and suggests he understands how to prepare horses for a slog. Redcar is another place where his record stands out — 3 winners from 13 runners at that track, which for a trainer operating at his scale represents a genuine hotspot worth remembering if you ever see his name on a racecard there.

Still only four years in, with a top-level winner already on the board and a growing team around him, Jardine looks like a trainer still very much on the way up.