John Gosden

EN Texto en inglés Aún no hay artículo en tu idioma: extracto en inglés.

John Harry Martin Gosden (born 30 March 1951) is a British horse trainer based at Clarehaven Stables in Newmarket, Suffolk. He has trained more than 4,000 winners worldwide, including more than 200 Group One races across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most internationally successful trainers in the history of modern thoroughbred horse racing. He has been British flat racing Champion Trainer six times (2012, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023), winning the Epsom Derby twice, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe three times, the Breeders' Cup Classic, and the Breeders' Cup Turf twice. Born in Sussex, Gosden was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied economics and won Blues for both discus and javelin. He then worked as a pupil assistant to Vincent O'Brien at Ballydoyle in County Tipperary and to Sir Noel Murless at Warren Place in Newmarket. Starting with only three horses in rented stalls on the backstretch at Santa Anita Park, he gradually built one of the leading stables in American racing. During his decade training in California he accumulated more than 600 winners and established himself as one of the dominant trainers on the West Coast. His first major success came in 1983 when Bates Motel won the Santa Anita Handicap and was named Eclipse Award Champion Older Male Horse. In 1984 he trained Royal Heroine to win the inaugural Breeders' Cup Mile, placing him among the trainers associated with the foundation of what later became racing's premier international championship meeting. He was leading trainer at Del Mar in 1985 and at Hollywood Park Racetrack’s spring–summer meeting in 1986, and won the Hollywood Turf Cup three consecutive times. Despite his success in the United States, Gosden returned to England in 1989 so...