David Brown had his last runner as a coach before retiring when Blazing hot finished seventh in the 5-point long handicap at Southwell on January 23.
When Blazing Hot crossed the line, it brought the curtain down on the 15-year training career Brown started after selling his engineering business to an American company.
Explaining his decision to retire, Brown said: “I’m 78 years old now and the time has come. We’ve always planned to spend that long time training horses after the sale of the business and we had a great time, met some lovely people and been all over the world.
“It’s been a pleasure to train and people like Sheikh Fahad, John Fretwell and other owners have been so supportive of me and really supportive of me and what we’re doing.
“We have a house in Spain and we will spend more time there, but I think I can keep a horse here for training. We did everything we wanted. do.”
Brown was not a newcomer to racing upon his founding in 2008, starting as a member of a steady staff before founding his engineering company after attending night school. .
He owned horses with Steve Norton and Sir Michael Stoute, and also trained under license throughout the 1990s before withdrawing his full license.
The top performer for Brown during his full-time training career was Friedrich Engels The July 2011 (G2) Share winner and the first Royal Ascot winner for Sheikh Fahad and his brothers in Qatar Racing at the Windsor Castle Stake landing the same year.
“He wanted a horse that could beat Ascot so he could have tea with the Queen and I told him this is the horse, this horse will win, and I’m glad he did. there,” he said.
“He’s a very good horse, he’s actually terrifyingly good. He’s that good. I didn’t really have anything to work with him, so a week before Royal Ascot I was gallop with him. Doncaster car who is ranked above 100 and is leading the way, with the plan being for Frederick to join him.
“Well, when he was asked to hurry, he caught up and trailed him, so I think that’s enough for me to make sure he wins next week!”
As well as Frederick Engels, who was sold to Hong Kong at the end of his junior season, Brown has coached multiple Doncaster Rovers, list winners, team 3 winners catch mine and the scorers are listed wind fire , Medrano and crazy mind of his 224 flat winners in the UK, along with four jumps over.
