Richard Fahey

Richard Fahey
Occupation	Trainer
Major racing wins
July Cup, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Heineken Gold Cup, Canadian Stakes, Yorkshire Cup, Prix Maurice de Gheest
Significant horses
Garswood, Sandiva, Supplicant, Glen's Diamond, Ladys First, Mayson, Barefoot Lady, Mickdaam, Wootton Bassett, Knot In Wood, Utmost Respect, Anna Pavlova, Superior Premium, Golden Legacy, Noyan

Richard Fahey is a racehorse trainer, based in Malton, North Yorkshire. He has saddled 30 Group race winners in the UK, Ireland, France and Canada, including Garswood in the 2014 Prix Maurice de Gheest, Mayson in the 2012 Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket.,^[1] Barefoot Lady in the 2012 Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine and Wootton Bassett in the 2010 Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp. In 2014 Fahey saddled 192 winners and prize money was over £2.8 million. He finished fourth in the trainers championship.^[2]

Career

Richard Fahey has built his training career on the back of a successful stint as a jockey. He chalked-up just over 100 winners, under both codes, in ten years in the saddle, the highlight of which was sharing the conditional jockeys’ title.

From starting out, in the summer of 1993, from Manor Farm, Butterwick, near Malton, with a modest string which barely reached double-figures, Fahey has never looked back.

2002 Fahey got his name on the Royal Ascot roll of honour courtesy of Superior Premium – a colt he’d bought as a yearling for only 2,800gns- who clinched a 20-1 triumph in the Cork And Orrery Stakes under Johnny Murtagh.

2005 saw Fahey make the move to Musley Bank Stables, Malton, his current base and in 2006 he went through the £1 million prize money barrier.

2008 he saddled more than 100 winners for the first time, prize money was up to £1.2 million.

In 2010 Fahey burst through the £2 million prize money barrier with 181 winners in Britain. He also saddled his first Group One winner with Wootton Bassett in the 2010 Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp.

Fahey has consistently trained over 140 winners for the last six seasons and in 2013 prize money went past £2.4 million.

2014 was Fahey's most successful season. He trained his first winner at the Dubai World Cup; Gabrial for owner Dr Marwan Koukash. He's trained 192 winners and prize money is over £2.8 million. In the British Flat Turf Trainers Championship Richard finished third numerically, and fourth over-all. Baccarat also won the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot and Fahey trained another Group One winner when Garswood won the Prix Maurice de Gheest

2015's flat season began with immediate success, Fahey again teaming up with owner Dr Marwan Koukash and jockey Tony Hamilton to win the £100,000 Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster Racecourse with former Group 1 contender, Gabrial. The trio had previously enjoyed success in the 2012 renewal of the annual flat racing curtain raiser, with Brae Hill.

In the space of less than 20 years, Richard Fahey has become one of the country’s leading trainers with more than 200 horses on his books.

For 12 years, Paul Hanagan was the stable's number one jockey, twice winning the British flat jockey championship, before leaving to take up a position as retained rider with Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum. Paul continues to ride for the stable when available. Jockeys include Tony Hamilton, Jack Garrity, Sammy Jo Bell, Paddy Mathers, Dave Nolan and George Chaloner .^[3]

Richard Fahey website

Major wins

Great Britain

• Cork & Orrery Stakes - Superior Premium (2000)
• Cldye Stakes - Golden Legacy (2004)
• Ayr Gold Cup - Fonthill Road (2006)^[4]
• Chester Cup - Greenwich Meantime (2007)^[4]
• Chipchase Stakes - Utmost Respect (2008)
• Lancashire Oaks - Anna Pavlova (2008)
• Swinton Handicap Hurdle - Joe Jo Star (2009)
• Duke Of York Stakes - Utmost Respect (2009)
• Greenlands Stakes - Utmost Respect (2009)
• Chipchase Stakes - Knot In Wood (2009)
• Summer Stakes - Rose Blossom (2010)
• Nell Gwyn Stakes - Barefoot Lady (2011)
• Dee Stakes - Glen's Diamond (2011)
• Palace House Stakes - Mayson (2012)
• Chester Vase - Mickdaam (2012)
• July Cup – Mayson (2012)^[1]
• Lincoln Handicap - Brae Hill (2012);^[4] Gabrial (2015)
• Yorkshire Cup - Glen's Diamond (2013)
• Lennox Stakes - Garswood (2013)
• Superlative Stakes - Good Old Boy Lukey (2013)
• Atlanta Stakes - Ladys First (2013)
• Mill Reef Stakes - Supplicant (2013)
• Nell Gwyn Stakes - Sandiva (2014)
• Wokingham Stakes - Baccarat (2014)

France

• Prix de Royallieu Hotel Hermitage Barriere - Anna Pavlova (2007)
• Prix de Seine-et-Oise - Utmost Repsect (2008)
• Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere - Wootton Bassett (2010)^[5]
• Prix du Calvados - Sandiva (2013)
• Prix Maurice de Gheest - Garswood (2014)

Ireland

• Heineken Gold Cup - Noyan (1997)^[6]

Canada

• Canadian Stakes - Barefoot Lady (2012)

Sweden

• Taby Varsprint Superior Premium (1999)

References