Racehorse trainer biography of william jarvis
William Jarvis, the last of a dynasty of racehorse trainers stretching back 140 years, calls time on his Newmarket training career
A training dynasty created by Newmarket’s oldest racing family and stretching back nearly 140 years is to come to an end with the announcement that William Jarvis will quit the town’s training ranks at the end of this season.
Mr Jarvis, who is 62, is the last in a long line of Jarvis family members, stretching back to his great grandfather, whose name he bears, and who over the decades were to weave their way into the very fabric of Newmarket’s sporting heritage.
He has been based at Phantom House Stables for nearly 40 years following his father, Ryan, who started training at the Fordham Road yard back in 1952.
“It will be sad that there will no longer a Jarvis training in Newmarket and I’m retiring sooner that I would have liked but I’ve been very privileged and very lucky to
have trained for some wonderful owners over the years such as Lord Howa End of an era in Newmarket as William Jarvis calls time on ...!