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'''Venetia Williams''' (born [[10 May]] [[1960]]) is a British [[horse racing|racehorse]] [[horse trainer|trainer]] specialising in [[National Hunt]] racing. She is based at stables at [[Aramstone]] in [[Herefordshire]], [[England]]. She was an amateur National Hunt jockey until forced to retire after suffering a broken neck in 1988. She worked for racehorse trainers [[Martin Pipe]] and John Edwards before taking up a licence to train herself in 1995. Her most succesful horse to date has been Teeton Mill, winner of the [[Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup]] and [[King George VI Chase]] in 1998. ==References== * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/3248353.stm BBC website profile] {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Venetia}} [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British horse trainers]] '''Harry Thomson Jones''' (born 1925, died 5 December 2007), often known as Tom Jones, was a British [[horse racing|racehorse]] [[horse trainer|trainer]] was a racehorse trainer whose career lasted from 1951 to 1996. He was successful in [[National Hunt]] racing, training the winners of 12 [[Cheltenham Festival]] races before switching to [[flat racing]] and going on to train the winners of [[British Classic Races]]. He was educated at [[Eton College]] and was first licenced as a trainer in 1951. Amongst his notable National Hunt horses were Tingle Creek, winner of 11 races and a specialist at [[Sandown Park Racecourse]], and Frenchman's Creek, winner of the 1962 [[Betfred Gold Cup|Whitbread Gold Cup]] and 1964 [[King George VI Chase]]. By the 1970s he had begun to concentrate on flat racing and trained his first Classic winner when Athens Wood won the 1971 [[St. Leger Stakes|St. Leger]]. In 1982 he trained Touching Wood to win the St. Leger and Irish St. Leger for [[Maktoum bin Rashid al Maktoum|Maktoum al Maktoum]], the first Classic winner owned by the Maktoum family. [[Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum|Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum]] became his principal owner and the most successful horse he trained for Sheikh Hamdan was Al Bahathri, winner of the [[Lowther Stakes]] in 1984 and the [[Irish 1,000 Guineas]], [[Coronation Stakes]] and [[Falmouth Stakes|Child Stakes]] in 1985. His last winner came when Agdistis won at [[Worcester Racecourse]] on 12 October 1996 and retired later that year. His son, Tim Thomson Jones, and daughter, Di Haine, are also racehorse trainers. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Harry Thomson}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:British horse trainers]] [[Category:Old Etonians]] '''Joe Mercer''', (born [[21 October]], [[1934]] is a retired English [[thoroughbred]] [[race horse]] [[jockey]] . He was active as a jockey from 1947 and 1985 and rode a total of 2,810 winners, a figure exceeded only by Sir [[Gordon Richards]], [[Lester Piggott]] and [[Doug Smith]] at the time of Mercer’s retirement. He was apprenticed to trainer Frederick Sneyd and won his first [[British Classic Races|British Classic race]] while still an apprentice on Ambiguity in the 1953 [[Epsom Oaks]]. He subsequently worked for Jack Colling, [[Dick Hern]], [[Henry Cecil]] and Peter Walwyn. He was [[British flat racing Champion Apprentice]] twice, in 1952 and 1953 and [[British flat racing Champion Jockey]] once, in 1979. On retiring as a jockey he worked initially as a jockey’s agent for Brent Thomson and Tony McGlone before accepting a job as racing manager for [[Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum]]’s Gainsborough racing operation. He retired in January 2006. The most successful horse Mercer rode was [[Brigadier Gerard (horse)|Brigadier Gerard]], winner of 17 of his 18 races between 1970 and 1972. ==British Classic wins== * [[One Thousand Guineas|1,000 Guineas]] - (2) - ''Highclere (1974), One in a Million (1979)'' * [[Two Thousand Guineas|2,000 Guineas]] - (1) - ''Brigadier Gerard (1971) '' * [[Epsom Oaks]] - (1) - ''Ambiguity (1953)'' * [[St. Leger Stakes|St Leger]] - (4) - ''Provoke (1965), [[Bustino]] (1974), Light Cavalry (1980), Cut Above (1981), Sun Princess (1983)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Wa;wyn, Peter}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:British horse trainers]]