'He's the big hope' - Hugo Palmer on his top team for 2025 plus Michael Owen's horses to follow
The top trainer talks Jonathan Harding through big-race hopes at home and abroad
In his fourth year at Manor House Stables, Hugo Palmer is hoping to build on a successful 2024 with a strong team of three-year-olds, including his Betfred 2,000 Guineas contender Seagulls Eleven.
The Classic-winning trainer, who landed the Chester Cup in May and two juvenile Group races in the autumn, has a well-balanced squad that also features potential Melbourne Cup contender Roaring Legend.
"I've never really wanted to set too many targets for fear of being disappointed but I always aim for each season to be better than the last, in terms of the number of winners and prize-money, and the one thing I'd desperately like to tick off is a first Group 1 success from Manor House," says Palmer. "We've been second and third in a few since I moved here in 2022 and it would be a great thing to achieve.
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Copy- 'He's a very, very good horse - and he'll win a big one somewhere down the line'
- 'The 2,000 Guineas was a pipe-dream - but he still excites me and there are plenty of nice races in his future'
- 'We're very much looking forward to her and hope she can go right to the very top'
- 'She's much stronger and her family improves with age - I think she can win another Group 1'
- 'He's a powerful animal who looks fantastic - a proper Group 1 sprinter in the making'
- 'He's a very, very good horse - and he'll win a big one somewhere down the line'
- 'The 2,000 Guineas was a pipe-dream - but he still excites me and there are plenty of nice races in his future'
- 'We're very much looking forward to her and hope she can go right to the very top'
- 'She's much stronger and her family improves with age - I think she can win another Group 1'
- 'He's a powerful animal who looks fantastic - a proper Group 1 sprinter in the making'