Thorngill News

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 [...]

April 15th 2021 a day to remember. Grantley was the first runner out of three yesterday at Ripon he made a flying start in the “Cock O’ The North” Handicap under Phil Dennis. [...]

What a fantastic day we had on Saturday at Doncaster Races. Artistic Rifles battled extremely hard to win the Spring Mile Stakes under a very strong PJ Mcdonald. The horse showed everything you [...]

By Chris McGrath for Thoroughbred Daily News Putting the success into succession is a familiar challenge in the British training profession. In contrast with America, with its racetrack communes, [...]

From Old to New, 2020 has been a memorable year in many ways. Mainly due to COVID but we also had a wonderful year with many great highlights too many to mention. It now looks as if crowds will [...]