Horses First Racing
Meet the people behind Horses First Racing Ltd.
Eamonn, is the Managing Director and founder of Horses First Racing. With a lifelong interest in racing Eamonn enjoyed a misspent youth at Windsor races and Slough dog track. He tore himself away to start his career in publishing. After moving to Silicon Valley to publish a computing magazine, he set up the world's first commercial internet service. On his return to the UK he founded leading interactive agency Online Magic, which he later sold to Agency.com, staying on as their European CEO. After contracting M.E. Eamonn explored a vast range of alternative therapies to aid his recovery. He was keen to bring together this interest with his racing involvement, bought The Beeches in 2004, and founded Horses First Racing.
Jeremy, 35, is the trainer at Horses First Racing. He came over from Australia where he enjoyed considerable success. For more information please see the trainer page.
Visit Jeremy's training page: www.horsesfirstracing.com/trainer.html
'Coops' joined the yard in 2008, having previously been a highly regarded Head Lad to the David Hayes empire at Lindsay Park in South Australia. Coops has ridden some top class horses, including Japan Cup winner Better Loosen Up and Golden Slipper winner Miss Finland.
Amy is a qualified riding instructor and joined the Horses First team in 2008. She owns Cap Classique, who used to be in training with us.
Kevin joined us at the beginning of 2009. He started off working in racing journalism and became the first Irish representative of the world-renowned form analysis firm Timeform in early-2007. Kevin has been an active breeder of thoroughbreds for a number of years. His duties as our racing manager include helping Jeremy to plot campaigns for the horses, as well as making the entries and analysing them before making declarations.
Lou takes the majority of our runners to the races in one of our two lorries. She worked for Seamus Mullins for years before joining the Horses First team. Lou is always friendly and helpful, even after spending hours on the road and it is good to have her onboard.
Rosie came to us in 2008 after working in the polo industry. The first horse she led up for us was Chief Exec when he won at Wolverhampton. She is now in charge of any treatments the horses need and is the main contact point for our vet Rob Jackson.
Tracey, 40, is our Feed Manager. She is our longest serving member of staff, having been with the company since it first set up at the Beeches. Tracey is in charge of preparing and ordering all of our feed.
Luke rode for us as a conditional and apprentice. He has previously worked for Richard Rowe, Lawrence Wells and Amanda Perrett.
Greg rides a lot of our 2 year olds and is very good at educating 'the babies'. He used to have his own breaking business in his native New Zealand and also trained a few horses out there.
Kirsten is South African and worked for several trainers over there. In England she worked for Peter Makin and Neil Mulholland before joining Horses First.
Slim is originally from Germany and he worked with Assistant Trainer, Coops, at Lindsay Park in Australia. He joined the Horses First team in 2009 and tends to attract the tricky rides! He is a great one for saying things how they are and is a very competent horseman.
Janny is hungarian and joined the yard with Kirsten. He is a very able horseman and rides a lot of the trickier horses.
Becky previously worked for Jean Rene Auvray and came to work for Horses First Racing in 2010. She is a keen rider and her favourite ride is our Key Of Luck filly.
Sam used to work for Guy Landau and broke a few of our horses in for us. She is very experienced riding youngsters and comes in to ride three or four lots out each morning.
Sarah is a qualified veterinary nurse and has worked for Horses First Racing since 2009.
Emily joined us as a groom in 2009. She had not worked in a racing yard before but has progressed well and is a keen worker. Her favourite horse is Jeremy's hack, Sonny Jim!
Fruszi joined the yard in 2009. She is hard-working and can turn her hand to anything. She's been a great addition to the team.
Frank used to live in Africa, where he played polocrosse for Zimbabwe. This is his first job in racing and he is keen to progress.
Shirley came to us after working for Baycliffe Farm. She works on the yard in the morning and often takes horses racing.
Sue has worked with horses all of her life. She moved to the area in 2009 and now works in the mornings for us.
Faye has her own horse and has started helping us out at the weekends. She is enthusiastic and hard-working and a big help to the team.
Racing Secretary Imogen Bovey has been with the company for four years and owns ex-racehorse, Silent Dream. Imy is in charge of the day-to-day running of the office.
Kelly is our Client Services Manager and also rides out from time to time. She been involved with horses all of her life and has one of our ex-racehorses, Northern Seren, as well as her pony, Sam. Kelly looks after our owners and goes racing regularly. She is also in charge of our website, recruitment, marketing, events and re-homing horses.