The Team

Jamie joined the yard as my conditional jockey in March 2024 and soon tasted success by riding The Wise Traveller first past the post at Fakenham in April. As well as being a good rider, Jamie is very good with machinery and was able to help out with tractor work during the Summer. He spends evenings in one of our barns working on cars, replacing gear boxes and improving bodywork and impressing us all!

Skye has been with us for about two and a half years, after graduating from the British Racing School. She has been involved with horses for most of her life but developed a love of the racing industry and decided to focus on racing rather than going to university. As well as being a very valued member of the team, Skye has an extraordinary talent as an equine artist.

Charlotte joined us at the end of 2024. She is an accomplished horsewoman and competes in eventing, including at Badminton Grassroots competitions. She plays an important role for us in developing young horses and reschooling older horses that have developed bad habits as well as riding work and schooling horses in full work. This all helps to get the best out of the horses. She is also good fun and makes a great contribution to the team.

Shane joined the team in October 2024, having worked at a flat yard in Newmarket but having previously spent a year with a well-known National Hunt yard. He loves jump racing and is keen to get race-riding experience himself. His plan is to start in point to point races and we are keen to support him and to help him achieve his goals.

Niall also joined the team in October 2024, having completed his apprenticeship as an electrician – a very helpful skill! Although Niall has family connections with racing, he had not worked in the industry but came to me to learn about National Hunt racing and to learn to ride jumps horses. As can be seen from his profile photograph, he has learned quickly and had a great time on the Thurlow Hunt Ride. His riding has come on well and I am confident that he will continue to improve.

Dr Belinda Rose is a great asset for me and the yard. As well as riding out whenever she can, Belinda is a very experienced equine vet and is always on hand to provide advice and support. Although we also use the excellent teams at Newmarket Equine Hospital and at Buffy Shirley-Beavan’s Summerhill Veterinary practice, it is very useful to have someone on hand and in the yard so regularly. Belinda has given her horses great rides in point to point races for the last two seasons and also won the prestigious Newmarket Town Plate in 2023 on her pointer, Dancing Shadow.

Katie has been with us, on a part-time basis, since December 2025. She is a busy mum with two lovely daughters to look after, Olivia and Freya, but still manages to find time to come to help us out several days a week, which is much appreciated by us. When she has time, she enjoys baking – so we like that as well!

Max works for us part-time while he continues his post-graduate studies in Cambridge. He is also a very promising oarsman and trains very hard as a member of the rowing eight. He has been selected to receive specialist coaching under a national “future stars” development programme – very exciting!

We are helped on some mornings by Brian Mayes, who also looks after the machinery and does general work on the farm (and has done so all his life, as did his father before him).

Ashley Holmes of ACH Farriery is another key member of the team and is on the yard twice a week.