Edward Hunt

Edward Hunt

1877-1962

Edward Stanley Hunt was born on 12 October, 1877. He was apprenticed to James Chandler at Lambourn House. He rode on the Flat during the 1890s, achieving his biggest success on Laodamia in the 1896 Doncaster Cup.

For part of his riding career he was based at Stockbridge. He rode around 80 winners altogether including 23 in his best season. 

After retiring from the saddle in 1901 he began training under National Hunt rules, based at Melcombe House, East Ilsley, and had a handful of winners – six in his best year. 

Although principally known as a NH trainer, he also held a Flat trainer’s licence from 1905 to 1916, based at The Splatts, in Wiltshire, and won the 1908 Great Metropolitan Handicap with Father Blind, owned by Mr L. B. Beauchamp, a colliery owner, who owned the stable. 

He only trained a single Flat winner in 1914 and Beauchamp sold the stable four years later.  

Edward Hunt died on 13 May, 1962.

Information sourced from ‘A Biographical Dictionary of Racehorse Trainers in Berkshire 1850-1939’ by David Boyd, published in 1998.