![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Table 2: Leading North American trainers with juveniles Wesley Ward is the only trainer particularly renowned for a juvenile specialty. Here we can see a similar concentration of names who do well across the entire spectrum of age-groups. Table 2 uses the same strictures to summarise juvenile results for U.S. Neither man can be described as a 2-year-old specialist, however, and this is the theme of Table 1: most of the top names in the main rankings also figure. Noteworthy is the presence of Yorkshire rivals Mark Johnston and Richard Fahey, who are the two top trainers in Britain across all ages of horse by number of winners in 2016. His 22 group winners in the current rankings window is 13 more than anyone else (other than O’Brien, who has 44).Īpart from O’Brien, three other trainers highly ranked in our main rankings also figure prominently here too: the Godolphin trainers Charlie Appleby and Saeed bin Suroor, along with French legend Andre Fabre. Like his father before him, Wiltshire trainer Richard Hannon has a strong record with juveniles and ranks #2 in Europe currently by our figures. The second column is the overall world ranking. The first column on the left combines Europe and the U.S. Table 1: Leading European-based trainers with juveniles It doesn’t matter whether he is training youngsters or veterans, we are very confident he deserves to be regarded as the #1 trainer on the planet. As sample size grows, a kind of statistical gravity, known as regression towards the mean, drags down stellar results to Earth. To recap, the algorithm was designed to cope with different sample sizes in each category, so that we can compare, say, Bob Baffert’s results with 24 different juveniles to Todd Pletcher’s with twice that number. Juvenile racing is an important department of the global sport, and the TRC Global Rankings algorithm applied to 2-year-old races in isolation reveals some interesting angles. Top performer: Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Classic Empire (Julien Leparoux) is led in after the race by Mark Casse, who leads the field in North America when it comes to training juveniles. ![]()
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