Oliver Sherwood handing in his licence

[He Didnt Like Ground]

He,s announced he,s handing in his licence and going to assist Harry Derham , he’ll take some decent horses to , Derham after a fine first now has some experienced hands to take him on to the next level

[greenasgrass]

Should be a great team, I hope they do really well. Boy it’s hard to make training pay.

[He Didnt Like Ground]

Definitely Green , however after his illness this is more quality of life driven , wonder who’ll take over
his yard

[IanDavies]

I’m fairly confident – not least because I’ve heard smaller trainers suggest it – the BHA would like to see the existing racehorse population divided between a lot fewer trainers.

And maybe one day based at or very near a smaller number of tracks so Flat racing (increasingly on AW so it can be raced on more often) could become more Americanised.

A lot less admin for the BHA that way and this would mean some abandoned training facilities wouldn’t get new licenced trainers but would instead be sold for housing development or some other commercial purpose outside of racing.

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[He Didnt Like Ground]

If that’s true Ian then that would be a real shame , history has told us following America is never a good idea , a better idea would be for the some of theses facilities to be used for educating the trainers of tomorrow using recently retired racehorses , proper hands on education with the classrooms on-site , you could have one North , South , East and in Scotland/Wales , a better educated staff would also go along way to fighting the battle with animal rights protesters

[IanDavies]

It would be a shame, but the number of trainers merging operations or giving up altogether suggests to me overall trainer numbers must surely be falling as the UK industry simply can’t provide profitable operations for all of them.

This means those training facilities a trainer exits may never have a new trainer moving in.

And as stated I suspect the BHA would prefer to be dealing with a smaller total number of licence holders and, if so, don’t expect them to do anything to try to arrest the slide.

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[Steeplechasing]

Oliver finishing last season with 35 horses tells you all you need to know about the difficulty of the career. A fine trainer with decades of experience, big winners, and a good personality. And a very decent man to boot.

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