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Had a great career as a jockey and his training career for a small yard couldnt really have started much better, winning twice at Cheltenham with Lord Windermere and once with Spring Heeled.
It’s a pretty shocking statistic to say that since Lord winderemere won the Gold Cup, Culloty has had three winners and one of those was a hunters Chase.
Every day I look at an Irish racecard I see a Culloty horse maybe 3/4th in the betting with an each way chance and his horses rarely seem to run below form, they always seem to run into 3/4/5th places but they just can’t seem to win. It’s clear he isn’t trying to beat the system and look for low handicap marks if he was he would have horses out the back in maidens like Elliot and McManus horses are constantly.
Is Jim Culloty just a bad trainer or a victim of honesty? Or maybe he just has terrible horses?
We get the news today that Spring Heeled won’t run in the national and we haven’t seen or heard from Lord Windermere since it was pulled up in the national. Anyone any updates on him?It’s hard to do much more than speculate, but I’d lean towards bad trainer.
Perhaps the best indication was Culloty’s explosive reaction to Davy Russell’s ride on Lord Windermere in last year’s Gold Cup. There’s something a bit unhinged and deluded about a trainer who bins the jockey after watching his horse plainly outpaced from the start.
Another indicator will be if/when Culloty’s horses turn up with other trainers. Look at the exploits of other handlers with former Nick Williams or Donald McCain-trained animals this season – the original trainers look quite inept when their seemingly exposed horses suddenly post career-bests elsewhere.
?? Nothing wrong with Nick Williams as a trainer….. I’d far rather have him train a horse than a lot of bigger yards.
I always liked Williams too, but Alfie Spinner, Fox Norton, Abracadabra Sivola and Amore Alato have been revived/improved since moving to other yards. That can’t be a good sign.
Considering the paucity of winners Jim Culloty can only be said to have been “in good form” in just one week.
Some coincidence that “one week” enabled him to win two races at the Cheltenham Festival. And neither Spring Heeled or Lord Windermere are able to show the same form again.
The “luck of the Irish”.
Value Is EverythingStrange that Dr R Lambe backs him it must be some sort of relation of his. its it strange if he was a bad trainer surely Dr R Lambe would of helped him out with his contacts.. Strange yard but not many people can say they have won a gold cup.
Certainly a unique set of career stats to date. His 21 NH runners in the UK have produced twice as much win prize money (£460k) as his 496 NH runners in ireland (£230k).
Last two seasons in Ireland he’s 2/132, the sort of numbers more normally associated with a cricket team than a racing stable.
Culloty’s stats are certainly peculiar. You wonder whether there’s a problem with his hay or water supplier, or maybe he just has one way of training and it just happened to work for one or two horses in his yard. Or perhaps he’s a poor judge of a young horse and tends to buy slowcoaches. Maybe a statistical freak. Who knows?
I remember working with someone whose family had a horse with a trainer who’d actually had a Festival winner many moons ago, but his record, apart from this one horse, suggested he could barely train ivy up a wall.
Isn’t Dr Lambe his father in law?
Culloty’s wife is/was Susie, daughter of Sir David Samworth and heiress to the savoury pasty empire Ginsters. They split up last March so Jim’s unfettered access to free sausage rolls has doubtless been cut off. I don’t know whether the couple are estranged, separated or divorced.
Dr Ronan Lambe founded the pharmaceutical company Icon some years back. He is the 143rd richest man in Ireland with assets worth about £66m.
Okay, then i got it wrong … but if there are no family connections …
I think, the horses aren’t bad but often declared in the wrong races.I feel he seems to overrate his horses. There are numerous races that the likes of Spring Heeled and Lord winderemere could run in. 5/6 runner grade 2’s or listed races. Instead he prefers to run them in the most difficult races. Fair play to him for that but perhaps a better balance is needed. Again the way he got rid of Russell was bad and didn’t paint him in a great light
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