Roger Teal

Those three Class 1 wins are the headline. Two of them have come at Doncaster — in September 2023 and again in March 2025 — which suggests Teal knows how to prepare a horse for a big occasion and keep doing it. Doncaster is one of Britain's most prestigious venues, and winning there once takes talent; winning there twice at the top level starts to look like a habit. He added a third top-level win at Sandown Park in April 2025, showing the yard can perform at major tracks across the country rather than relying on one happy hunting ground.

One detail worth flagging is how Teal's horses perform on wet, muddy ground. In those conditions, his runners have won 2 from 6 races — that's a 33% win rate, meaning roughly 1 in every 3 races in the mud ends in a winner. For context, most trainers would be delighted with half that figure. It suggests the yard takes care to run horses in the right conditions rather than simply filling entries for the sake of it.

His most consistent jockey partnership is with Lewis Edmunds, who has ridden 26 times for the yard and converted 3 of those into wins — about 1 in every 9 rides. More eye-catching is the relationship with a horse called Three Socks On, who has won 2 of the 5 races the pair have tackled together. Two from five sounds modest until you remember that winning 40% of your races with any horse is genuinely unusual — it points to a trainer who understands exactly what that particular animal needs.

Still only four years in, Teal is accumulating the kind of big-race experience that usually takes much longer to earn. The trajectory is pointing in one direction.