Baron Noir winning at the Punchestown Festival. Steve Davies/Racingmediapics.co.uk
ALAN KING’S TRAINING RECORD
GB Jumps 2025-2026
| WINS | RUNS | PRIZE MONEY | |
| Hurdle | 2 | 10 | £47,788 |
| Chase | 2 | 2 | £9,901 |
| NHF | 0 | 0 | |
| TOTAL | 4 | 12 | £57,690 |
GB Flat Jan 2025-Dec 2025
| WINS | RUNS | PRIZE MONEY | |
| 2yo AW | 0 | 0 | £0 |
| 2yo turf | 0 | 0 | £0 |
| 3yo AW | 1 | 2 | £4,187 |
| 3yo turf | 1 | 8 | £15,439 |
| 4yo+ AW | 1 | 16 | £35,069 |
| 4yo+ turf | 0 | 14 | £26,524 |
| TOTAL | 3 | 40 | £81,219 |
Graded & Group Winners
| JUMPS | |
|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 34 |
| Grade 2 | 86 |
| Grade 3 | 19 |
| Listed | 44 |
| FLAT | |
|---|---|
| Group 1 | 3 |
| Group 2 | 5 |
| Group 3 | 1 |
| Listed | 4 |
Optimism is sky high for 2025 Flat season
We might have a smaller string of jumpers than in recent years, but we still managed to match our total of winners for the 2023-24 season, and, following Baron Noir’s brilliant win in the bumper at the Punchestown Festival, we can now look ahead with real optimism to the 2025 Flat campaign.
Paradias, who ran a blinder on All-Weather Finals day at Newcastle on Good Friday, will, like Brioni and, hopefully, Insanity if we can sort his feet out, be aimed at some of the middle-distance Heritage Handicaps this summer.
Then there is Tritonic and Spartan Army, both likely to be targeted at the big staying handicaps at Royal Ascot and Glorious Goodwood, while, of course, if ever the weather breaks again we still hope that Trueshan has at least one more season competing at the major meetings.
April showers were non-existent this year and it has been very difficult to be able to work the horses on our excellent grass gallops, but Trueshan has shown all his old ability and enthusiasm on the all-weather strip in the spring mornings, so we all have fingers crossed that we might yet enjoy a wet summer.
We have bought a handful of potentially exciting two-year-olds at the Breeze-Up sales, and, with the likes of Daiquiri Bay, Kurakka and Lola Moon looking above-average second-season performers, everyone at Barbury has a spring in their step these mornings.
Fingers crossed we’ll all enjoy a great 2025 and I hope that you have good reason for a celebration or two in the coming months.
ALAN
Trueshan and Hollie Doyle on their way to the start for the Goodwood Cup
UP AND COMING RUNNERS
Friday 23 May
GOODWOOD
2.40 TRITONIC (Hollie Doyle)
Saturday 24 May
GOODWOOD
3.45 LOUGHVILLE (James Doyle)
Sunday 25 May
LONGCHAMP
TRUESHAN (James Doyle)
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