Karl Burke
Trainer of over 1100 winners
Karl Burke
Karl was born over the Black Swan pub in Rugby and later moved across town to the Red Lion which his father ran for sixteen years. During his time at the Red Lion Karl gained his first interest in racing through watching it with his dad.
At school Karl met Elaine Jarvis, daughter of trainer Alan. They later married and had two girls Kelly and Lucy.
Karl rode his first winner for Alan Jarvis in an apprentice race at Hamilton on The Britisher. Always likely to be too heavy for the Flat he switched codes to jump racing, and went on to gain 50 winners from 750 rides. The first being Bloemfontein for M Chapman at Newton Abbot.
Karl's career in racing took a new direction as his interests turned to training. Karl and Elaine set up a livery and pre-training yard in Newark where they broke young stock in. It was here they started training a small string of both flat and jump horses. The family then moved to Broadway near Cheltenham where they rented a yard, with much more space, from Michael Berrow the manager of pop group Duran Duran.
As the string of horses increased Karl made the decision to move to Ginge in 1990 where he enjoyed further success with horses such as Philistar and Daring Destiny winner of the Ayr Gold Cup, a Group 2 in Germany and a Group 3 in Ireland.
Karl’s profile as a trainer continued to grow and in 1998 he moved to High Havens Stables on Hamilton Road in Newmarket. In 2000 Karl and his family bought Spigot Lodge in idyllic North Yorkshire.
Spigot Lodge is ideally situated between the famous Middleham High and Low moor gallops and is steeped in racing history.
Karl has now trained here for over fifteen years and has built up the string to over 100 horses. He has enjoyed Group 1 success with Lord Shanakill who won the Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly in 2009 and most recently with Odeliz who won the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville & The Premio Longines Lydia Tesio in Italy along with many placed efforts.
Andy CrookTrainer
Over forty years in racing and working his way up through the ranks from Stable Lad to Head Lad to Jockey to Trainer has given Andy invaluable experience in every aspect of the care and training of racehorses.
Ben HaslamTrainer
Ben has been here since 2010, when he took over the reins from his father, Patrick Haslam, at the young age of 25. Since then, Ben has sent out over 100 winners from the yard, both Flat and National Hunt.
Chris FairhurstTrainer
Chris succeeded his father, Tommy ‘Squeak’ Fairhurst in 1994 and is the latest in a long line of trainers at Glasgow House. Chris himself rode more than fifty jump winners before he became a trainer.
Edward BethellTrainer
There was never really any doubt that Edward Bethell would find his true calling in the world of horseracing, having grown up around thoroughbreds at his family’s Thorngill Stables at Coverham in Middleham, the renowned racing centre in North Yorkshire …
Jedd O’KeeffeTrainer
Jedd O’Keeffe is one of the Yorkshire Dales racing town of Middleham’s established and well respected trainers.
Julia BrookeTrainer
Julia’s story with horses began at the age of two and throughout her childhood/teen years she was an accomplished show jumper.
Karl BurkeTrainer
Karl was born over the Black Swan pub in Rugby and later moved across town to the Red Lion which his father ran for sixteen years. During his time at the Red Lion Karl gained his first interest in racing through watching it with his dad.
Liam BaileyTrainer
Foulrice Park Racing was set up in 2010 by Colin and Ailsa Stirling. Initially the operation was established from leased premises near Malton but in March 2013 we moved to owned facilities in Middleham which will be the long term home for the business.
Mark JohnstonTrainer
Mark Johnston is one of Britain’s leading trainers, having become the first Flat trainer to send out more than 200 winners in a season (2009), a feat which he has, to date, repeated in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Micky HammondTrainer
Micky started training in May 1990 at Tupgill Stables alongside the Low Moor at Middleham, now the Saddle Room restaurant.
Richie McGrathPre-training
Richie is an ex-National Hunt Jockey now specialises in Breaking in, Pre-training, Sales Preparation & Recuperation of thoroughbred horses.
Simon WestTrainer
Training from Castle Stables, a small, friendly yard with successes in National Hunt racing.
