Research Corner – Jump Trainers to Follow Early in the Year – Part I
As 2025 continues to hurtle towards the festive period, this time around we are going to highlight a few Jumps Trainers for you that have performed well at the start of the year, during the months of January and February. To keep things relevant, we are going to use the most recent 5-year period, 2021-2025, for the basis of our research. The other factor to consider is quite often trainers have their own individual style such as concentrating on chasers or maybe ex flat runners over hurdles etc. With this in mind we will break our research into NH race types, starting this time around with the Chasers.
The following table shows the performance of NH trainers that have had 75 or more chasers run over the latest 5-year period and have achieved an A/E in excess of 1.00, which indicates that their results have exceeded the market expectation based on the returned starting price.
Next, we will take each trainer in turn and see if we can uncover a few gems that might be worth following at the start of the New Year.
Tim Vaughan
As we can see the P&L does vary with 3 of the 5 years profitable on the Win Betfair SP, and 4 out of 5 at the Place BFSP.
The yard seems to do well with their runners, over the Jan/Feb period, at Exeter (2 from 6) and Chepstow (4 from 14). Also 11 out of the 20 such runners placed and returned a decent profit.
Overall, the profile suggests that we should be keeping close tabs on the yards runners when they compete in Chases during January and February.
Charlie Longsdon
Almost all of the profit came in 2025 with Hajo winning at 25/1 and paying 39.96 on the BFSP.
Overall, it doesn’t stand out as the kind of profile that is likely to be repeated next time around, so with that in mind we will pass.
Stuart Coltherd
The A/E seems to be trending downwards which is a reflection of the diminishing strike rate.
It’s another one that at top level looked promising but after drilling down doesn’t look worthy of following next time around.
Christian Williams
Hard to pick a fault given all 5 years returned a positive P&L at both the win and place Betfair SP. Hopefully the trend will continue into 2026.
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