Thorngill News

  Gainsbourg Gains his Second Win of the Season. It is a delight to report that Gainsbourg kick started the month with a win in the last at Pontefract on Monday night (05/10). Under a [...]

The success of Bethell racing continues as the team end the month with a very impressive 21 winners and an astounding £326,820 prize money all in Ed’s first season in the trainers seat! Continued [...]

 We look forward to seeing you at this years “Yearling Parade” and End of Season Party here at   Thorngill Stables- DL8 4TJ.   We will be having a horse parade and be showing you a [...]

On Friday (03/09/21) Regional made his first appearance on a racecourse for Bethell Racing and an excellent one it was. Making all Regional continued to quicken finishing strongly with his head [...]

When Ed took over the licence in January, he made no secret of the many goals he wanted to achieve in his first season, one of the most important of which was to increase the stables 2yo strike [...]

Over the course of his near 50-year training career, James built a reputation of bringing horses along gently to peak in midsummer, and although the name at the top of the business may have [...]

Northern trainers have been doing noticeably well at the southern meetings in previous weeks, with Subjectivist winning the Gold Cup for Mark Johnston, Perfect Power for Richard Fahey in the [...]

Fearby sheds his maiden tag at the second time of asking at Wetherby. Under a confident ride by P J McDonald This son of Tweenhill Stud – Havana Gold looks to have a bright future. Well [...]

It could be argued that we’ve had a frustrating start to May so far, with only a few runners due to the unseasonable softness of the ground, but Gainsbourg’s fantastic third at Nottingham on [...]

Although being a first-season trainer involves plenty of looking forward, we’d be mad to not review the flying start we’ve made at Thorngill Stables since Ed took over from James this year. In [...]