Since sending out his first runner just over a decade ago, James has already saddled over 500 winners to win more than £6 million of prize money.  In addition, he has now become an established source of Group performers including the three current stallions Invincible Army, Far Above and Hey Gaman.

2024 was a stellar season for the stable with four individual Black Type winners and an AW Finals Champion.  The year started off with a stylish win from Cloud Cover in the £150,000 AW Fillies and Mares’ Final at Newcastle.  It then just got better and better as Royal Dress entered the fray, rated just 87 from Richard Hannon’s, and went on to win the Listed Conqueror Stakes at Goodwood and the Group 3 Meadow Court Stakes at The Curragh.  Having only won two novice races at Kempton in 2023, Electric Storm started the season off with a second place in the Listed Lansdown Stakes at Bath before taking the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes at Haydock and going down in tight finishes in Group 3 races at Deauville, Longchamp and Dundalk.

The year also finished well for the yard with Mount Athos taking a deserved first Black Type win in the Listed Prix Irish River at Deauville before Cloud Cover finally got her breakthrough Black Type victory.  The Champion AW filly had been narrowly denied in Listed races at Chelmsford and Dundalk, before getting a deserved win the Listed Prix Satamixa at Deauville in December.

2025 promises plenty with many of these high class fillies remaining in training and with a host of promising younger horses such as Kullazain, who finished a highly creditable third place in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes at Newmarket on only his third start.

Exciting times ahead…