Season target-Amanda is aiming for 50 winners

AIMING to win some Group races again this year is Pulborough trainer Amanda Perrett, who has some exceptional three-year-olds for the coming Flat season, as well as a crop of potentially decent juveniles.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Mar 2009, 15:44 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:05 BST

Amanda took over the training licence in November, 1996, at Coombelands Stables when her father, Guy Harwood, retired.

Her husband, Mark, is very much a major part of the training operation, having worked at Coombelands since he was 17, riding work on all the well-known Harwood group winners.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

He also rode more than 900 winners as a successful National Hunt Jockey, while Amanda won 90 races on the Flat as an amateur rider.

She said: "We lacked quality with our three-year-olds last year. We had 34 winners and 107 placed runners, less than we would have liked, but the two-year- olds ran well in their maidens and we have some really nice types to run this year, which ought to win some decent races.

"I'd like to achieve 50 winners this season and a strike rate of approaching 20 per cent. I'm also aiming to lift some Group races again and have a year like we did when we won the Tote Ebor, the Chester Cup and Tote International Handicap in one season."

There are also some useful older horses in the yard, such as Tungsten Strike, Bandama, John Terry, Camps Bay and Night Crescendo '“ and five of last year's three-year-olds have been retained as four-year-olds.

For full feature and details of talented horses in the yard, see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette March 4