Ralph Beckett and Hugo Palmer to train for Khalid Abdullah in 2016
Friday 18 December 2015 10:50, UK
Ralph Beckett and Hugo Palmer are to train horses for leading owner Khalid Abdullah for the first time in 2016.
Both trainers are to receive horses from Abdullah's Juddmonte operation shortly, though the exact number that will be in their care has yet to be decided.
"It's very good news. They are two young, exciting trainers," said Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe.
"The number of horses they will have for us has to be decided, but it will be half a dozen or so."
Newmarket-based Palmer has had his best year so far, saddling 34 winners and enjoying Group One success with Covert Love in the Darley Irish Oaks and the Prix de l'Opera with stable earnings passing #1million.
Simple Verse was Ralph Beckett's headline horse, winning the Ladbrokes St Leger and the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes. The Kimpton trainer has had 80 winners in 2015 and has amassed #1.5m in prize money.
Other trainers on Abdullah's books in the UK are John Gosden, Sir Michael Stoute, Roger Charlton, Amanda Perrett and Charlie Hills, while he has horses in Ireland with Dermot Weld and in France with Andre Fabre and Criquette Head-Maarek.
