Richard Hannon, Jr.

Richard Hannon
Occupation	Trainer
Born	21 November 1975 United Kingdom
Major racing wins
British Classic Race wins as trainer: 2,000 Guineas (2014)
Significant horses
Night of Thunder, Toormore

Richard Hannon Jr. (born 21 November 1975) is a British racehorse trainer. He is the son of, and former assistant to, four time British flat racing Champion Trainer Richard Hannon Sr.

He operates from the 160 capacity Herridge Racing Stables, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, with a smaller yard at Everleigh on the edge of Salisbury Plain. He took over the training operation from his father at the end of 2013.

Hannon comes from a family with a long tradition of horse training. Both his father, Richard, and grandfather, Harry, were also trainers. In his younger days, he spent time learning his trade at top stables in Australia, before returning to England to be his father's assistant, just like his father had been his grandfather's assistant before the elder man's retirement in 1970. He served as his father's assistant for twelve years.

During his time as assistant, the yard was highly successful, his father winning three trainers' championships in four years, thanks to the success of horses like 2013 1,000 Guineas winner, Sky Lantern, Sussex Stakes winner, Toronado, and Canford Cliffs, winner of five Group One races before his retirement in 2011. He was instrumental in bringing in new owners to the yard including Sheikh Hamdan, Andrew Tinkler, Sir Robert Ogden, Sir Alex Ferguson and Sheikh Fahad Al Thani. It was announced at the end of November 2013 that he would take over the running of the stable from his father with effect from 1 January 2014.

His first runner in his own right was an unraced three-year-old called Unscripted in a seven furlong maiden race at Wolverhampton on 3 January 2014. The horse duly won by 10 lengths as the 2/1 favourite, ridden by Sean Levey.

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