List of race horse trainers

Race horse trainers train horses for horse racing. This involves exercising, feeding, management and, in early years, to get them used to human contact.

Once a horse is old enough to be ridden, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready by designing exercise routines tailored for each horse and its needs as well as determining which races it should enter. Leading horse trainers can earn a great deal of money from a percentage of the winnings that they charge the owner for training the horse. They typically collect 10% of the purse money won by the horses they are currently training.

Outside horse racing, most trainers specialize in a certain equestrianism discipline. Some fields can be very lucrative, usually depending on the value of the horses one trains or prize money available in competition.

Australia

 * Rod Bonella
 * Scobie Breasley
 * Fred Castledine
 * Bart Cummings
 * Etienne L. de Mestre
 * Jack Denham
 * Isaac Earnshaw
 * Greg Eurell
 * Seth Ferry
 * Lee Freedman
 * Cecil Godby
 * Sol Green
 * Theodore Green
 * David Hall
 * George Hanlon
 * John Hawkes
 * Colin Hayes
 * David A. Hayes
 * Robert Hickmott
 * Jack Holt
 * Sampson Hosking
 * Bob Hoysted
 * Pat Hyland
 * Sheila Laxon
 * Ciaron Maher
 * Kerryn Manning
 * Bob Maumill
 * John F. Meagher
 * Denis Pagan
 * Brett Sutton
 * Gai Waterhouse
 * Kim Waugh
 * Tommy Woodcock

Argentina

 * Francisco Maschio
 * Angel Penna Sr.

Barbados

 * William C. Marshall
 * Michael Stoute                                         * Edward Walcott Junior                                 * Elizabeth Deane

Canada

 * Sid C. Attard
 * Roger Attfield
 * Reade Baker
 * Macdonald Benson
 * James C. Bentley
 * Gary Boulanger
 * Charles Boyle
 * William H. Bringloe
 * Josie Carroll
 * Lou Cavalaris Jr.
 * Reggie Cornell
 * David C. Cross Jr.
 * Robert T. Davies
 * Jim Day
 * William Donohue
 * Mark Frostad
 * Harry Giddings Jr.
 * Lucien Laurin
 * Roger Laurin
 * Les Lear
 * Barry Littlefield
 * Jerry C. Meyer
 * Gordon J. McCann
 * Barbara J. Minshall
 * Eva Ring
 * Rayel Robinson
 * William Robinson (Horse trainer)
 * Gil Rowntree
 * Laurie Silvera
 * Yonnie Starr
 * Robert Tiller
 * Daniel Vella
 * Francine Villeneuve

Cuba

 * Laz Barrera

France

 * Pascal Bary
 * Patrick Biancone
 * François Boutin
 * Georges Bridgland
 * Robert Collet
 * François Doumen
 * Camille du Gast
 * William B. Duke
 * André Fabre
 * Raymond Gruppi
 * John Hammond
 * Criquette Head-Maarek
 * Alec Head
 * Freddy Head
 * Éric Legrix
 * Élie Lellouche
 * François Mathet
 * Markus Münch
 * Jean-Claude Rouget
 * Alain de Royer-Dupré
 * Bernard Secly
 * Charles Semblat
 * Nash Turner
 * Jimmy Winkfield
 * Maurice Zilber

Germany

 * Johannes Frömming
 * Heinz Jentzsch
 * Charlie Mills
 * Peter Schiergen
 * Andreas Schütz
 * Andreas Suborics

Hong Kong

 * Derek Cruz
 * Tony Cruz
 * David Ferraris
 * Caspar Fownes
 * David Hall
 * Brian Kan
 * Almond Lee
 * Andy T. W. Leung
 * Frankie Lor
 * Manfred K. L. Man
 * Anthony T. Millard
 * John Moore
 * Gary T. K. Ng
 * Peter B. K. Ng
 * Paul O'Sullivan
 * Andreas Schütz
 * John Size
 * Sean Woods
 * Dennis C. H. Yip
 * Ricky P. F. Yiu

India

 * Rashid Byramji
 * Pesi Shroff

Ireland


• Jim Bolger

• Cecil Boyd-Rochfort

• Neville Callaghan

• Peter Casey

• Noel Chance

• Denny Cordell

• Barney Curley

• Richard Dawson

• Henry de Bromhead

• Tom Dreaper

• Pat Eddery

• Gordon Elliott

• Richard Fahey

• Francis Flood

• Patrick J. Flynn

• Tom Foley

• Jessica Harrington

• Eoin G. Harty

• Paul Hennessy

• Dessie Hughes

• Richard Hughes

• Kevin Kerr

• Sheila Lavery

• Adrian Maguire

• Noel Meade

• Brian Meehan

• Mouse Morris

• Emmet Mullins

• Paddy Mullins

• Willie Mullins

• Johnny Murtagh

• Aidan O'Brien

• Donnacha O'Brien

• Fergal O'Brien

• Joseph Patrick O'Brien

• Phonsie O'Brien

• Vincent O'Brien

• Edward O'Grady

• Jonjo O'Neill

• Joseph Osborne

• Mick O'Toole

• John Oxx

• James Parkinson

• Paddy Prendergast

• Christy Roche

• Fergie Sutherland

• Charlie Swan

• Pat Taaffe

• Tom Taaffe

• David Wachman

• Michael G. Walsh

• Ted Walsh

• Dermot Weld

Italy

 * Antonio Balzarini
 * Marco Botti
 * Luca Cumani
 * Giordano Ruffo
 * Federico Tesio

Japan



 * Masayoshi Ebina
 * Kazuo Fujisawa
 * Yuichi Fukunaga
 * Katsuhiko Sumii
 * Koshiro Take
 * Yoshito Yahagi

New Zealand

 * Tony Allan
 * Murray Baker
 * Cecil Devine
 * Bill Hazlett
 * Tony Herlihy
 * Charlie Hunter
 * Free Holmes
 * Roger James
 * Colin Jillings
 * Linda Jones
 * Laurie Laxon
 * Sheila Laxon
 * Hedwick Wilhelmina McDonald
 * Trevor McKee
 * Michael Moroney
 * Denis Nyhan
 * Mark Purdon
 * Roy Purdon
 * Natalie Rasmussen
 * Steven Reid
 * Dave O'Sullivan
 * Lance O'Sullivan
 * Paul O'Sullivan
 * Jamie Richards
 * Graeme Rogerson
 * Doody Townley
 * Chris Waller

Norway

 * Terje Dahl
 * Kjell Håkonsen
 * Arnfinn Lund

Singapore

 * Garnet Bougoure

South Africa

 * David Ferraris
 * Terrance Millard

United Arab Emirates

 * Saeed bin Suroor
 * Mahmood Al Zarooni

United Kingdom


• Neil Adam

• Ivan Allan

• Robert Alner

• Jack Anthony

• Charlie Appleby

• Robert Armstrong

• Andrew Balding

• Ian Balding

• Ivor G. Balding

• Toby Balding

• David Barons

• Frederick Whitfield Barrett

• Peter Beaumont

• Ralph Beckett

• George Beeby

• Michael Bell

• Basil Blackett

• George Blackwell

• Herbert Blagrave

• William Blenkiron

• Milton Bradley

• Mark Brisbourne

• Clive Brittain

• Peter Bromley

• Charlie Brooks

• Tim Brookshaw

• Arthur Budgett

• Frank Butters

• Simon Callaghan

• Julie Camacho

• Roy Cambidge

• Henry Candy

• Tom Cannon Sr.

• Peter Cazalet

• Henry Cecil

• Mick Channon

• Jane Chapple-Hyam

• Peter Chapple-Hyam

• Roger Charlton

• Stanley Clarke

• Paul Cole

• Robert Cowell

• Jim Culloty

• Luca Cumani

• Len Cundell

• Fred Darling

• Sam Darling

• Tom Dascombe

• Zoe Davison

• George Dawson

• Mathew Dawson

• John Day

• John Barham Day

• William Day

• Michael Dickinson

• Louie Dingwall

• George Dockeray

• Simon Dow

• Neil D. Drysdale

• George Duller

• Ed Dunlop

• John Dunlop

• Bill Dutton

• Walter Earl

• Mick Easterby

• Peter Easterby

• Tim Easterby

• Edward Ede

• George Edwards

• Eric Eldin

• Bill Elsey

• Charles Elsey

• David Elsworth

• James Fanshawe

• Lord John FitzGerald

• John Forth

• Tim Forster

• Tregonwell Frampton

• Arthur Freeman

• Harry Fry

• Josh Gifford

• Peter Gilpin

• John G. Goldsmith

• Steve Gollings

• John Gosden

• Thady Gosden

• Towser Gosden

• Chris Green

• Brian Gubby

• William Haggas

• John Hammond

• Richard Hannon Jr.

• Richard Hannon Sr.

• Peter Harris

• Guy Harwood

• Patrick Haslam

• Peter Hastings-Bass

• Alfred Hayhoe

• Richard Head, 2nd Viscount Head

• Peter Hedger

• Nicky Henderson

• Dick Hern

• Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles

• Edward Hide

• Barry Hills

• John Hills

• Jeremy Hindley

• Bruce Hobbs

• Philip Hobbs

• Gavin Hunter

• William Hastings-Bass, 17th Earl of Huntingdon

• Jack Jarvis

• Michael Jarvis

• Malcolm Jefferson

• Fulke Johnson Houghton

• Helen Johnson Houghton

• Mark Johnston

• Harry Thomson Jones

• James Kasparoff

• Gay Kindersley

• Alan King

• Henrietta Knight

• George Lambton

• Joseph Lawson

• Francis Lee

• Geoff Lewis

• Morgan Lindsay

• Carl Llewellyn

• David Loder

• Len Lungo

• William Macdonald

• James Octavius Machell

• Beryl Markham

• Marcus Marsh

• Richard Marsh

• William C. Marshall

• Ginger McCain

• Charles McVittie

• Stan Mellor

• Marcus Milner

• Hughie Morrison

• Charles Morton

• Noel Murless

• Florence Nagle

• Richard Newland

• David Nicholls

• Paul Nicholls

• David Nicholson

• Frenchie Nicholson

• Walter Nightingall

• Peter Niven

• Jeremy Noseda

• Ken Oliver

• Tom Olliver

• Jack Ormston

• Jamie Osborne

• Jonathan Pease

• Charles Peck

• Amanda Perrett

• Atty Persse

• Lester Piggott

• David Pipe

• Martin Pipe

• Jenny Pitman

• John Porter

• Mark Prescott

• Ryan Price

• Micky Quinn

• Andrew Reid

• Mary Reveley

• Gordon W. Richards

• Nicky Richards

• John Maunsell Richardson

• Fred Rimell

• Jack Robinson

• Robert Robson

• Richard Rowe

• Lucinda Russell

• Mick Ryan

• Alex Scott

• John Scott

• Michael Scudamore

• Oliver Sherwood

• Robert Sherwood

• Bob Sievier

• Dan Skelton

• Denys Smith

• Sue Smith

• Matt Stephenson

• Michael Stoute

• Alan Swinbank

• Walter Swinburn

• Alec Taylor Jr.

• Alec Taylor Sr.

• Colin Tizzard

• Mark Tompkins

• Jeremy Tree

• Marcus Tregoning

• Nigel Twiston-Davies

• Bernard van Cutsem

• Roger Varian

• Richard Vernon

• Tom Walls

• Fulke Walwyn

• Peter Walwyn

• James Waugh

• Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland

• Venetia Williams

• Norah Wilmot

• Fred Winter

• Richard Woollacott

• Geoff Wragg

• Harry Wragg

United States
• Whitey Abel

• Smiley Adams

• Paul T. Adwell

• Thomas Albertrani

• Frank A. Alexander

• Hank Allen

• Jena Antonucci

• Fernando Alvarez

• Thomas M. Amoss

• Pete D. Anderson

• Steve Asmussen

• Ivor G. Balding

• Kaye Bell

• Bob Baffert

• Dale Baird

• Robert L. Baird

• Laz Barrera

• Thomas J. Barry

• Caroll K. Bassett

• H. Guy Bedwell

• Jesse Beery

• Macdonald Benson

• Elizabeth Williams Berry

• Patrick Biancone

• Sylvia Rideoutt Bishop

• Scott Blasi

• Lew Bloom

• Thomas Bohannan

• Pete Bostwick

• James E. Bracken

• Buck Brannaman

• Kelly J. Breen

• Donna Barton Brothers

• Frank L. Brothers

• Chad Brown

• Edward D. Brown

• Preston M. Burch

• William P. Burch

• Fred Burlew

• Merritt C. Buxton

• J. Dallett Byers

• Patrick B. Byrne

• W. Bret Calhoun

• Robert W. Camac

• Gregory Duncan Cameron

• Hardy Campbell Jr.

• John P. Campo

• Del W. Carroll

• Henry L. Carroll

• Mark E. Casse

• Wayne M. Catalano

• Frank Catrone

• Lou Cavalaris Jr.

• Alice Headley Chandler

• Henry S. Clark

• William R. Claypool

• Christophe Clement

• Chris Cox

• Edward A. Christmas

• Junior Coffey

• Jimmy Combest

• Don Combs

• Gary C. Contessa

• George H. Conway

• James P. Conway

• Edward C. Corrigan

• Brad H. Cox

• Jimmy Croll

• David C. Cross Jr.

• Laura de Seroux

• Hilton Dabson

• J. Keith Desormeaux

• Patrick B. Devereux Sr.

• John Dickerson

• Stephen A. DiMauro

• Stephen L. DiMauro

• Douglas Dodson

• Samuel Doggett

• Wallace Dollase

• William Donohue

• A. Thomas Doyle

• William B. Duke

• Wally Dunn

• Richard E. Dutrow Sr.

• Tony Dutrow

• Ronald W. Ellis

• David Erb

• Jerry M. Fanning

• William B. Finnegan

• William H. Fires

• James E. Fitzsimmons

• William H. Fizer

• Hugh L. Fontaine

• Mark Ford

• Henry Forrest

• Willard C. Freeman

• David A. Gall

• William M. Garth

• John M. Gaver Jr.

• Loyd Gentry Jr.

• Stanley I. Gold

• Alan E. Goldberg

• J. Paco Gonzalez

• Edwin J. Gregson

• Richard E. Handlen

• Carl Hanford

• Scott Harlan

• Eoin G. Harty

• Billy Haughton

• Casey Hayes

• Eddie Hayward

• Bruce Headley

• T. J. Healey

• Dan L. Hendricks

• Mark A. Hennig

• John O. Hertler

• Sam Hildreth

• Sonny Hine

• William J. Hirsch

• Thomas Hitchcock Sr.

• David Hofmans

• Jerry Hollendorfer

• Robert E. Holthus

• Stanley M. Hough

• Lindsay C. Howard

• Neil J. Howard

• Jim Hudson

• Hollie Hughes

• William A. Hurley

• Tim Ice

• Barry Irwin

• Eugene Jacobs

• Hirsch Jacobs

• Silas Jayne

• Lawrence W. Jennings

• H. Allen Jerkens

• Jimmy Jerkens

• Albert Johnson (jockey)

• Philip G. Johnson (horseman)

• Moody Jolley

• LeRoy Jolley

• Ben A. Jones

• Gary F. Jones

• Horace A. Jones

• J. Larry Jones

• Walter A. Kelley

• Thomas Joseph Kelly

• Ralph Kercheval

• John C. Kimmel

• Scott A. Lake

• Chick Lang

• Lucien Laurin

• Roger Laurin

• John J. Lenzini Jr.

• Budd Lepman

• Bruce N. Levine

• Barry Littlefield

• Johnny Longden

• Vance Longden

• Charles LoPresti

• D. Wayne Lukas

• Sarah A. Lundy

• Horatio Luro

• Guy J. Lyon

• John E. Madden

• Michael J. Maker

• James W. Maloney

• Richard E. Mandella

• Steve Margolis

• Pancho Martin

• Jose A. Martin

• Brian Mayberry

• Ron McAnally

• Frank McCabe

• Michael W. McCarthy

• Thomas R. McCarthy

• Byron McClelland

• Conn McCreary

• Robert V. McGarvey

• Shug McGaughey

• Kiaran McLaughlin

• Kenneth McPeek

• Jerry C. Meyer

• Bert S. Michell

• David Miller

• MacKenzie Miller

• Peter Miller

• Richard O. Miller

• William Molter

• J. D. Mooney

• Henry M. Moreno

• Jim Morgan (basketball)

• H. Graham Motion

• William I. Mott

• Winbert F. Mulholland

• Jeff Mullins

• Carl Nafzger

• Jim Nazworthy

• Edward A. Neloy

• John A. Nerud

• Victor J. Nickerson

• Joe Notter

• Niall M. O'Callaghan

• Richard O'Connel

• George M. Odom

• Doug O'Neill

• Joe Orseno

• Homer C. Pardue

• John Parisella

• Burley E. Parke

• Ivan H. Parke

• William L. Passmore

• Charles T. Patterson

• Charles Peoples

• Benjamin W. Perkins Jr.

• Daniel Perlsweig

• Abraham Perry

• Maurice Peters

• Clyde Phillips

• Joseph H. Pierce Jr.

• Helen Pitts

• Jimmy Pitt

• Edward Plesa Jr.

• Todd Pletcher

• Ernie T. Poulos

• Thomas F. Proctor

• Virgil W. Raines

• Rodney Rash

• Eric Reed

• Linda L. Rice

• Katherine Ritvo

• Timothy F. Ritchey

• Jay M. Robbins

• Craig G. Roberts

• Carl A. Roles

• Walter C. Rollins

• Dale Romans

• Haskell Ross

• Louie J. Roussel III

• James G. Rowe Jr.

• James G. Rowe Sr.

• Gail Ruffu

• John Russell

• Sol Rutchick

• James E. Ryan

• John W. Sadler

• Jamie Sanders

• Louis Schaefer

• Ray Schnittker

• Flint S. Schulhofer

• Andy Schuttinger

• Gary Sciacca

• Woodrow Sedlacek

• Jason Servis

• John Servis

• Jonathan E. Sheppard

• Art Sherman

• John Shirreffs

• Bill Shoemaker

• Richard Small

• James W. Smith

• Robert Augustus Smith

• Evert V. Snedecker

• J. Bert Sonnier

• Albert Stall Jr.

• William Ward Stephens

• Woody Stephens

• Dallas Stewart

• Joseph H. Stotler

• Melvin F. Stute

• Warren Stute

• Barclay Tagg

• Jimmy Takter

• Frank M. Taylor

• J. Thomas Taylor

• Mesh Tenney

• Howard M. Tesher

• Herbert J. Thompson

• J. Willard Thompson

• Noble Threewitt

• Vincent Timphony

• Gwyn R. Tompkins

• James J. Toner

• Harry Trotsek

• Clyde Troutt

• Robert Tucker

• Clyde Turk

• Billy Turner

• Jack Van Berg

• Clyde Van Dusen

• David R. Vance

• Harvey L. Vanier

• John M. Veitch

• Sylvester Veitch

• Donnie K. Von Hemel

• R. Wyndham Walden

• W. Elliott Walden

• Roy Waldron

• Billy Walker

• George Walsh

• John T. Ward Jr.

• Wesley A. Ward

• Frank D. Weir

• Buster Welch

• Robert L. Wheeler

• Oscar White

• David A. Whiteley

• Lynn S. Whiting

• Charles E. Whittingham

• Ian Wilkes

• Moe Williams

• Ansel Williamson

• G. Carey Winfrey

• Jimmy Winkfield

• Martin D. Wolfson

• Bennie L. Woolley Jr.

• Frank I. Wright

• Vester R. Wright

• Edward J. Yowell

• Frederick Hinde Zimmerman

• Nick Zito

According to The American Racing Manual, the thoroughbred horse racing trainers who have led the annual money-earning list more than twice since 1908 are:
 * D. Wayne Lukas (14)
 * Sam Hildreth (9)
 * Charlie Whittingham (7)
 * Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Horace A. Jones (5)
 * Bob Baffert, Laz Barrera, Ben A. Jones, William Molter (4)
 * Hirsch Jacobs, Edward A. Neloy, James G. Rowe Sr. (3)