Staff

		Name: Billy Barden
		Role: Head Lad
		Billy joined me in October 2006 as a stable lad fresh to Newmarket, having been working in Epsom. He has proved a thoroughly reliable, conscientious and valuable member of the team. His riding is of a very high standard and horses jump beautifully for him - he does about half of all the schooling here. He looks after the yard in my absence.

		Name: Terri Hardy
		Role: Full Time
		Terri worked for Henry Cecil for the last year. Previously to this she went travelling to Australia for a year. She has lived in Newmarket all her life

		Name: Sandeep Thapa
		Role: Full time
		Sandeep comes from India and has worked for me since the start of last season. He is our yardman and makes sure that the yard is always clean and tidy. This is his first job in England.

		Name: Mark Marris
		Role: Full time
		Mark has been working at St Gatien on a part time basis for the last two years and joined the team full time at the beginning of August 2009. He is only 16 years old and has always lived in Newmarket. There is no one more enthusiastic than Mark, he is the first into work every morning and afternoon. He took his amateur licence out 1 minute past 12pm on the day of his 16th Birthday! I am looking forward to giving him rides in Amateur races this season. He deserves every piece of success that will come his way and a young lad that is as keen as he is will get my full support. I wish him luck in his career as a professional jump jockey.

		Name: Michael Keady
		Role: Full Time
		Michael is the newest member of our team. He joined St Gatien in January 2010 having previously worked for Donald McCain Jnr. Michael only left the British Racing School in the summer of last year, and having never ridden before his course, I'm impressed at how well he rides now! Michael enjoys rugby and is a fan of London Irish. He is originally from Cambridge, so being in Newmarket he is now closer to home.

		Name: Alex Merriam
		Role: Conditional Jockey
		I have known Alex since my point to pointing days. Having ridden 85 winners pointing, he is far more experienced than most 5lb claimers. He has recently bought a house in Newmarket and rides out here every morning. He and Billy do just about all of the schooling and both are first class schooling jockeys. He knows how I like my horses ridden and is very good at winning races from the front. Although he struggles to do his minimum of 10 stone, I have never known him to put up anything over.

		Name: Graham Peck
		Role: Part time
		Graham has been a friend for many years and used to ride out and help qualify the point to pointers when I was training at Whepstead. He is an avid hunting and racing enthusiast and enjoys riding out and box driving for me when his day jobs, grain merchant and Zamar Ice Therapy machine rep, allow.

		Name: Katie Turner
		Role: Part time
		Katie is my long serving secretary and bookkeeper who comes to St Gatien once a week to keep everything in order. Her husband farms just 2 miles away from where I was bought up and I used to drive the combine for them at harvest time.

		Name: Gemma Snook
		Role: Part Time
		Gemma spent the 2009/2010 season as my Assistant. This season she is going to ride out on a Saturday, help me in the office when she can and go racing when I need her to. She has taken on a Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 office job which I am sure she will get bored of eventually and come back to horses full time!

		Name: Andrew Hickman
		Role: Riding out
		Andrew lives in Newmarket and works for Brightwells, the Ascot (the source of many winners for me over the years) and Cheltenham Sales auctioneers. Andrew and I used to ride against each other point to pointing and Andrew rode over 89 winners before hanging up his boots in 2006.

		Name: Clare Twemlow
		Role: Riding out
		Clare started riding out in January 08 in preparation for her participation in "The Peoples Race" held on Grand National day and televised on the BBC. She not only made it through to the final 10 to ride in this charity flat race from an initial 3,000 but won the race as well and raising over £50,000 for charity. She now holds a Category A amateur licence and had rides under rules and point to pointing last season, with Ramvaswani providing her with seconds at Southwell and Towcester.

		Name: Sophie Eayrs
		Role: Riding out
		Sophie works for European Bloodstock News , but again finds time to ride out here 3 mornings a week and regardless of the weather brings a ray of sunshine to the yard each morning! She is from the heart of Leicestershire's hunting country and enjoys hunting through the winter.

		Name: Tori Tremlett
		Role: Riding out
		Tori works for Darley as PA to John Ferguson. She is a valuable member of the team riding out every morning and also enjoys hunting when the opportunity arises. Tori used to work for Henrietta Knight and has Evented and ridden in point to points in the past. She is a very good rider and gets on very well with the extremely jubilant Leo McGarry!

		Name: Camilla Evetts
		Role: Riding out
		Camilla started riding out for St Gatien in the Sping of 2009 when she moved to Newmarket to work for Castlebridge Stud. Camilla has a point to pointer at home in Gloucestershire who she rides at weekends so she rides out every morning to keep herself fit and her eye in!

		Name: Harry Fowler
		Role: Riding out
		I have known Harry since my point to pointing days and used to ride against him. With 58 winners under his belt he is naturally a very good work rider and schooling jockey to have on side, but he hasn't yet managed to ride a winner for St Gatien despite our best efforts! Between riding and competing in triathlons, Harry works for Tattersalls in Newmarket and Ireland. Fortunately he is good mates with Andrew Hickman of Brightwells but there was a certain amount of rivalry one September morning when a Doncaster Bloodstock Sales representative also rode out for us!