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I’ve just seen that Roger Varian has notched up 6 straight winners in a row since the weekend, with Asaas scoring at Windsor this evening. (His next entry is Commander at Thirsk on Wednesday, so could realistically continue the streak). This leads me to ask if any one knows what the longest consecutive winning run a UK trainer has had, either flat or jumps?
I remember a season when Sir Henry had 19 two year old winners in a row. Those were the days!!!!
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I remember a season when Sir Henry had 19 two year old winners in a row. Those were the days!!!!
Yes Joni, but Varian’s just a mere mortal!
I’ve just seen that Roger Varian has notched up 6 straight winners in a row since the weekend, with Asaas scoring at Windsor this evening. (His next entry is Commander at Thirsk on Wednesday, so could realistically continue the streak). This leads me to ask if any one knows what the longest consecutive winning run a UK trainer has had, either flat or jumps?
Good question joliff. The longest winning sequences for both horses and jockeys are well known, but those for trainers not so much.
Commander didn’t go at Thirsk but Varian has three runners inside an hour this evening – Realtra in a G3 at Fairyhouse (6.50), Fujaira Bridge in a handicap at Bath (7.30) and Gibbs Hill in a handicap at Kempton (7.40).
I’m hoping they all win, and that nine winners on the bounce will prompt some attention from racing press anoraks who might be able to provide the answer.
2 out of the 3 won! He is undoubtedly on fire.
True, when googling the subject Camarero, a Puerto Rico horse, won 54 in a row in the 50s, plus the likes of Black Caviar come up, but very little on trainers. Mark Johnston did have 7 winners in one day last year I remember, but finding the longest streak is proving elusive! Would the BHA have this info, or Timeform?
None of any great length solely under Rules spring immediately to mind, but Mark Johnston’s farrier Justin Landy has already racked up a few sequences of between six and eight straight wins in his nascent point-to-point/hunter chase training career. If you disregard his hunter chase runners, his string went unbeaten in twelve outings between the flags from December 2015 to January 2017.
I also remember Martine Flint sending out twelve consecutive winners in the 2007-8 pointing season, all ridden by son Rhys as he powered on remorselessly towards that season’s champion novice rider title.
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