When did you start your career as a racehorse trainer?

I started in 1998. This was after doing a course with Dr St Aubyn Bartlett after serving my time as assistant trainer we graduated around the middle of 1998.

Which horse was your first winner?

I am not very sentimental but I believe it was Romantic Hunk with Winston Griffiths in the saddle for now trainer Gary Griffiths who was then the owner.

Which horse was your longest odds winner?

That could have been Touchdown in claiming at odds of 99-1.

Which is the best horse you have trained?

I haven’t got any best horse as yet but I have trained Touring With Rhea who ran third in the fillies 1,000 Guineas and had two unproven ones that I thought would have gone places in Closely Perfect who was leading by six, seven lengths but die on the track after the race and Rhea On Tour who came down with colic at the stable and die.

Which is the best horse that you have seen race at Caymanas Park?

I liked Eros. He was too versatile, winning from five furlongs to nine furlongs not to be considered as one of the great racers at Caymanas Park. Very few horses are endowed with the ability to dominate the short sprints, the middle distance and long distance races. There are those horses who are good at sprints, there are horses who are good at middle distances but Eros mastered going all three distances. And having established five track records over varying distances I will have to give it to him. You could not find a more genuine racer than Eros.

Who has influenced your career most?

Robert Darby the ‘claiming king’. From a young boy, I would ride horses on the farm. There I would jump around and make myself useful. At other times, I would engage in exercising some of the older horses who were boarded there, while using the exercise ring in the farm yard as my race course.