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00:00Jack Jones is a young new market-based trainer who recently celebrated one year of holding
00:07a training license. His team of owners and horses have grown over the last few months
00:12and two of that team, Navy Drums and Chagall, have had him in the winner's circle. Jack
00:17reflects on his first year as a trainer as well as explaining his hopes for the future.
00:23I've always been sort of based around horses at home, mum and dad sort of hunting and racing.
00:29My grandmother used to train 30 years ago. I've always done a bit of hunting and pony
00:36club and started riding out originally just locally at home. I had two and a half years
00:41with David Simcox and then in between setting up training and David with Richard Spencer
00:48as well, so sort of learnt a bit about both sides of town which was quite good. I've always
00:53loved sort of racing, form, pedigrees. Growing up locally, we're sort of half and half from
01:00Cheltenham so would always be going to Cheltenham sort of jumping and sort of as I say jumping
01:06sort of where I was sort of born and bred. The training angle was always the grand plan
01:13if that makes sense. The riding was great fun but it was always going to be a sort of
01:18hobby side but training was always what I geared up to be doing at sort of late 20s
01:24I guess and never really had an idea where until sort of came to Newmarket, found myself
01:32very settled and yeah just went from there really and then about almost a year ago today
01:38took the license out and went from there really. If I sort of look back a year ago from where
01:44we started with, I think I'd have to be very happy. Last year was, I suppose it would have been
01:49frustrating. I had lots of second and thirds. I think bar a little two-year-old filly, everything
01:54we had was placed so as well as they're running well, had people saying, oh it'll win next time
02:01and obviously it finished second again next time. So yeah, the summer was frustrating but they're
02:06running well, they weren't tailing off so I think it's doing, the stuff was going right and at the
02:11same time with a couple of niggly injuries so I think last summer was a little bit frustrating
02:16but it's probably, I learnt a lot through doing different things and through the summer they're
02:23running well and then had, Chagall was the first winner in November which was great, got him from
02:31Ireland, sort of had no form in Ireland so sort of he's been a great sort of great addition and
02:39he's won in the member, he's finished second again twice and then won again his last start.
02:44And then this new year, we're in March now but this new year's gone again, everything's fallen
02:51into place. Navy Drums, we picked him up cheap online and he's won too, he's again been a great
03:00addition. I wouldn't say I've got a five-year plan as such but I think as I said we're here
03:08with 14 boxes, a small barn, grow as and when, more horses, I think continuously having horses
03:18in but slowly upgrading quality, I mean look Chagall and Navy Drums rated mid to low 50s but
03:26they're in the right grade, they've won, Navy's won two, he's finished second, Chagall's won two
03:31and finished second twice so they're in the right grade and hopefully they can keep progressing but
03:35I think yeah you've got to be continuously at the sales, meeting people, new stock and improving
03:44your pedigrees and look at moving as and when. I think that's the one thing about being here in
03:49Newmarket is as and when yards pop up, hopefully falling right to move and grow accordingly and
03:56yeah just keep building and winners and get as big as we can really, that's the main
04:05thing right now.