Ed Vaughan Racing

Based at Grange House Stables on the renowned Hamilton Road in Newmarket, Vaughan enjoyed his best-ever season in 2007.

He sent out 19 winners in recording a solid 15 per-cent strike-rate. Kotsi proved his star two-year-old, winning a Newmarket maiden on her debut before finishing a narrowly-beaten second in the Group 2 May Hill Stakes.

Of the older horses, the County Cork-born trainer did well with - among others - Veenwouden and Cosmic Destiny. The lformer sailed home by four lengths in a Salisbury handicap and then secured valuable ‘black type’in two stakes races (the Listed Noel Murless Stakes and Group 3 Jockey Club Cup) at Newmarket.

Cosmic Destiny was a credit to herself and Vaughan as she registered three wins in a busy campaign.

Vaughan said: “We have been fortunate enough to have enjoyed a decent amount of success - especially in the past 12 months - and I’m determined to climb further up the trainer’s table.

Before his switch to the 60-box Grange House Stables, Ed had spent three years training from a barn at Henry Cecil’s Warren Place Stables. He had previously been assistant trainer to Alec Stewart at Clarehaven Stables.

Upon Stewart sadly passing away, Vaughan took out a licence on a temporary basis, sending out 17 winners from 80 runners in the latter part of the 2004 term; a 20% strike rate.

As well as learning a lot from Stewart, Vaughan banked a wealth of experience in his formative years. After successfully graduating from the Irish National Stud course, he spent four years working in training facilities in America.

Then came a move to Godolphin for whom he ran a pre-training barn in Ireland. That is where he broke in the legendary Dubai Millenium as a yearling. Two separate two-year spells followed as an assistant to both Charlie Mann and Noel Chance ahead of that switch to Stewart’s team.