'It's incredibly exciting and a huge honour' - Ed Bethell to be sent three juveniles by Sheikh Ahmed
Ed Bethell has received a big boost for the 2025 Flat season after being added to the training roster of the Maktoum family for the first time.
The North Yorkshire-based trainer, who prepared Regional to win the Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint Cup in 2023, racked up a best tally of 58 winners in 2024 and will be sent three juveniles by Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, colts by Gleneagles and Mohaather and a filly by Dark Angel.
Bethell, who succeeded his father James at Thorngill stables at Middleham in 2021, went close to making a lucrative start to the year when his leading older performer, Point Lynas, finished second in the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup in Qatar on Saturday but still earned £88,000 behind local runner General Panic.
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