We have dealt with every situation over the years, know how to work things out and it shows in the results which include 132 Grade 1 winners and a dozen Trainers' titles. It's a meeting I have had in my sights for months and last year we enjoyed a bonanza there with eight winners over the two days. So this seems the ideal time to give you an update on a number of interesting horses to follow over the season... READ ABOUT PAUL'S HURDLERS HERE. We had a fabulous time with 176 winners, five more than our previous best achieved in 2016-2017, and our band of summer horses have maintained the momentum with 31 victories at a strike rate of more than 30%.

As ever, The Castlebridge Consignment offers a sizeable contingent of 101 with the highly rated trio of AL RUFAA, FUNDAMENTAL and MAGICAL MORNING set to star. The largest trainer’s consignment is the 54 strong team from Mark Johnston’s Kingsley Park which includes the 109 Timeform-rated three-year-old DANCING KING, winner of the Group 3 March Stakes at Goodwood on his last start. Richard Hannon’s East Everleigh Stables has 51 catalogued, Andrew Balding’s Park House Stables 36 and Roger Varian’s Carlburg Stables will offer 32. Irish trainers including Jim Bolger, John Murphy, Joseph O’Brien, Michael O’Callaghan, Andy Oliver and Dermot Weld are also well-represented, as are French-based trainers Henri-Francois Devin, Mario Barrati and Eoghan O’Neill.Horses In Training 2023 still does what it says on the tin. What it has done for some 130 years. It is a list of (nearly) every thoroughbred racehorse in training in Britain (and some in Ireland and France) – covering 557 trainers and over 20,000 horses. Now we have to do it all again and it helps that we have a well oiled set up, a first Class team and 150 horses in full training although we will probably run around 200 over the next seven months.

Commenting on the 2021 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training catalogue, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said; While we have a system that works really well you can't sit still in this game and each year we try to change and tweak a few things which will hopefully bring out a bit of improvement. Although last season was shortened two months by the pandemic we won the first race of the campaign at Southwell in July and the last one at Sandown at the end of April. The vast strings of the likes of Andrew Balding, Richard Hannon and Charlie Johnston set against other yards who would once have had well over 100 horses in their care, but now muster barely two dozen. The World's Largest Horses in Training Sale December Yearling Sale, November 21 December Foal Sale, November 23 - 26 December Mare Sale, November 28 - December 1

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I've now trained more than 3,350 winners and am already working towards the next milestone of 4,000. I love what I do with a passion and am as ambitious as ever as we approach the core jumps season which gets under way at Chepstow this weekend. You could say it has taken me 30 years to learn what I am doing. Hopefully I have got the hang of it now and I am looking forward to the next 30 years. Taking it easy and reducing the numbers is the last thing in my mind.

We have never had so much success by the start of October. In truth the horses have been running consistently well for 12 months and continue to look amazing. In that time we have had almost 200 winners. Horses/Fillies in Training, Broodmares & Yearlings Craven Breeze Up Sale, April 11 - 13 Guineas Breeze Up & Horses in Training Sale, April 26 - 28 We don't cut any corners. You can't do that if you want to look after horses properly. This is not a factory where you turn off the machines early on Friday evening and start them up again on Monday. Our horses deserve the best of care. They need a lot of attention and Clifford Baker, my head lad and right hand man, and I make sure they get it. Things didn't go my way at first and it wasn't until a few days before Christmas that Olveston broke the ice for me over fences at Hereford.The shifting plates of the sport. New names with just three or four horses, other new names with 40. A jumps trainer with a team of 20, the majority of which are aged either four or five, another with seven horses, including two 14-year-olds and a 15-year-old.