Our Record
"The most successful syndicate there’s been. They’ve had an insane number of winners and successes at all levels - a terrific achievement from Middleham Park. They all do a great job and really have their head in the game." Oli Bell.
Some of our 2024 highlights:
2 year-olds: £150.000 Class 2 Tattersalls Auction Stakes Winner THE DRAGON KING was our first and winning most 2-year-old in 2024, THE STRIKIN VIKING bolted up on debut at York, before finishing 2nd in the Group 2 Railway Stakes at the Curragh for which he received a TF rating of 106+ (he was subsequently sold), Winner on debut - AN OUTLAWS GRACE -finished a very good 4th in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and a close 5th in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, UNCLE DON got off the mark in good style on his only second start, before finishing a close 2nd in the listed Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr, The 106 TF rated LAZY GRIFF did surprise us with his precocity, and not only broke his maiden at 2, but earned some all-important Blacktype at Listed level in Deauville, before winning the Group 3 Prix de Conde at Chantilly, Two-times winner Ziggy’s Ariel broke the juvenile track record at Hamilton, OUR MIGHTY MO won the valuable Class 2 2-Y-O Series Final Nursery Handicap at Hamilton, Our 100th winner of the year was provided by dual winner MASTER TECHNICIAN, having won a Class 2 Maiden Stakes as well as a Novice under a penalty.
From 163 2-year-old runners we achieved a winner's strike rate of 13.5% with 51,5% of all runners returning to the winners enclosure, being placed. 5 2-year-olds received Timeform ratings over 90 – with another two more achieving ratings above 80.
Older Horses: TF rated a114, and Champion ‘All Weather Horse’ nominee DEAR MY FRIEND won three races on the bounce in the spring, two valuable Class 2 Handicaps as well as the Listed Class Tandrigde Stakes, After having conquered Europe in 2023, BRAVE EMPEROR added the local Group 2 Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup at Qatar to his CV as well as defending his crown in the Group 3 Premio de Piazzale Memorial Enrico Camici at Milan, CLARENDON HOUSE ran a great race in Dubai when finishing 4th in the Group 2 Blue Point Sprint, and secured his first piece of Blacktype of the year in the Listed Class Hever Stakes, before winning the Class 2 Lindum York Handicap during the Dante Meeting and the Listed Class Midsummer Sprint Stakes at Cork, Our recently retired, and new addition to the stallion ranks SHOULDVEBEENARING started his season with a Listed third, before he was placed 3x on Group 2 level, and won the Group 3 Prix De Ris-Orangis in Deauville, GOT TO LOVE A GREY and ZIGGY’S DREAM started their seasons with victories in Listed races in France and Italy, with the latter earning more Blacktype in the Group 3 Qatar Oak Tree Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, whilst LEXINGTON BELLE travelled to Germany to finish 2nd in the Listed Class Isfahan Munchner Herbst Preis, the fast improving BOBBY BENNU added three wins and two seconds to his CV, with a TF rating of 107, and a special mention to our most-winning horse in 2024, TF 91-rated HOW IMPRESSIVE – 5 wins between February and October
National Hunt: Our superstar mare and dual Grade 1 winner MARIE’S ROCK added another 2nd in the Grade 2 Relkeel Hurdle at Cheltenham, a victory in the Grade 2 Warfield Mares Hurdle at Doncaster, as well as a 2nd in the Listed Class Beckford Stakes on the flat to her impressive CV, before she was retired to the paddocks and topped the Goffs December NH Sale. Dual winner STOKE THE FIRE – earned Blacktype in the Grade 3 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle
Group 1 & Grade 1 Winners
THE PLATINUM QUEEN - Cotai Glory filly, trained by Richard Fahey
- Highest OR 111
- Prize Money £345,730
- 2022 Winner of the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp, on Arc day at ParisLongchamp
- 2022 Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes 2nd, at York
- 2022 Group 2 Flying Childers 2nd, at Doncaster
- 5f juvenile track record holder at Goodwood, by winning the Alice Keppel Fillies' Conditions Stakes.
We purchased her at the 2022 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale, for 57,000 guineas. Her achievements that year were thrilling, as you can see above! She took her owners on some superb trips, including the Breeders Cup in Kentucky and Arc day at ParisLongchamp. To win a Group 1 race on a day like that really gets you noticed and there were some marvellous celeberations which were streamed around the world that day.
Her syndicate took a vote on the idea of sending her to the 2022 Tattersalls December Mares Sale - and what a good decision that was, as she made 1,200,000 guineas for them. Combine this with her race earnings, that was a very nice early Christmas present.
VENTURA STORM - Zoffany colt, trained by Richard Hannon
- Highest OR 113
- Prize Money £327,648
- 2016 Winner of the Group 1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club, Milan
- 2016 Winner of the Group 3 Prix De Reux, Deauville
- 2016 Winner of the Listed Glasgow Stakes, Hamilton
- 2016 Winner of the Listed Feilden Stakes, Newmarket.
He was purchased at the 2015 Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale for 110,000 Guineas. This was an amount we had not spent on a horse before, but when Peter & Ross Doyle and Richard Hannon all agreed he was not for passing over, Tim’s own ‘fomo’ (the fear of missing out!) kicked in and he was added to our 2015 2-year-old Hannon string.
One of the syndicate members remembers taking a call whilst on holiday in New York…”I think Tim had forgotten the time difference and when my phone rang, it was about 5am, but as I saw it was him, I knew I had to answer, as I had said I would be interested in another 2 year old! I am writing this almost 2 year's to the day and am looking at the race card from the St Leger on my wall and recalling some amazing memories from trips around Europe with him-who’d have thought! I still can’t quite believe I am a Group 1 winning owner, all with just 2.5% AND a healthy cheque to spend on new horses! He really has been an amazing horse to be involved with.”
His owners traveled with him to Ireland, France and Italy and pretty much all of them have gone into another of our 2-year olds with Richard, they loved the ride so much!
G FORCE - Tamayuz colt, trained by David O'Meara
- 2014 European Champion 3-year-old Sprinter
- Highest OR 118
- Prize Money £189,193
- Winner of the 2014 Group 1 Sprint Cup, Haydock.
A different profile of purchase for this Colt, as we bought him from the Richard Hannon Snr stable via the Tattersalls Horses-In-Training sale in 2013 for 25,000 Guineas. He had just had the one run and we placed him with David O’Meara, who has become our’ trainer of choice’ for horses bought out of other yards (visit his trainer page to see our current cohort). Initially being given a rating of 87, he rose up the weights after being placed in two Listed races, all at 5f. Taking in the Group 2 King George Stakes and the Group 1 Nunthorpe, he moved up to a rating of 111. Moving up to 6f, his pay day was at Haydock in the British Champions Series Betfred Sprint Cup, which earned him the ‘European Champion Sprinter’ title.
TOORMORE - Arakan colt, trained by Richard Hannon
- 2013 European Champion 2-year-old Colt
- Highest OR 122
- Prize Money £475,551
- Winner of the 2013 Group 1 Goffs National Stakes, The Curragh
- Winner of the 2013 Group 2 Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes, Glorious Goodwood
- Winner of the 2014 Group 3 Craven Stakes, Newmarket.
Tim and Tom purchased him at the 2012 DBS (now known as Goffs) Premier Yearling sale for £36k, with the assistance of leading Bloodstock agents Peter and Ross Doyle. Under the training regime of Richard Hannon Senior, (in his last season holding the license at Herridge,) Toormore’s 2-year-old campaign could not have been better. After an unbeaten season, winning his maiden on debut, following that with the Vintage Stakes (pictured here) and his Group 1 at The Curragh, he was subsequently crowned ‘European Champion 2-year-old Colt’. He went on to pick up the Craven Stakes next time and with two more Group 1 placings, amassed the phenomenal amount of prize money mentioned above for his syndicate; belying his purchase price.
A high-class miler, he perpetuated Middleham Park’s omnipresence at all the top-class meetings and as a result, his syndicate agreed to sell him to Godolphin, who saw him as a horse with a profile that was very appealing to their operation.
We heard in March 2018 that very sadly Toormore had to be put down after suffering a serious leg injury in training in Dubai. We were all very saddened at this news. He was the horse of a lifetime and we are very grateful to him for some wondeful memories.
*NB. All three of these Group 1 winners were subsequently sold by their syndicates through our privately negotiated deals for undisclosed, large, sums.
MARIE'S ROCK - A mare by Milan, trained by Nicky Henderson OBE
- 2022 Grade 1 Cheltenham Festival Winner
- 2022 Grade 1 Punchestown Festival Winner
- 2023 Grade 2 Relkeel Hurdle Winner
- 2024 Grade 2 SBK Warfield Mares' Hurdle Winner
- Dual Listed winner, Listed 3rd and Listed 2nd placed
- Grade 2 3rd.
- Hightest OR 153
- Prize Money £352,837
- Retired at the end of 2024
Purchased at the Goffs Landrover Sale, for €35,000, Marie's Rock began her racing career the following May, by winning her first three starts. She earnt important black type three times prior to lining up at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival. Ridden by stable jockey Nico de Boinville, she thrilled her owners and indeed everyone who is part of the Middleham Park Racing family, by winning that day! The Grade 1 Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle (registered as The David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle) will be forever marked as our biggest ever achievement in the National Hunt sphere. A day that will never be forgotten, UNTIL, she went to The Punchestown Festival in April, to contest the Grade 1 Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle, taking on stablemate Epatante. AND SHE WON! Now a Dual Grade 1 winning mare, can it get any better than that! She was retired in November 2024 and sold as broodmare prospect at the Goffs NH Breeding Stock Sale, where she topped the sale and was the highest priced National Hunt Mare to be sold in 2024.