#BettingPeople: TIM VAUGHAN

#BettingPeople: Welsh trainer Tim Vaughan has enjoyed a successful career, training over 800 winners to date & training Grade 1 winners in the UK and Ireland.

A former Champion Welsh point-to-point jockey, he became the youngest National Hunt trainer to record 100 winners in a season in 2012 & has gone from strength to strength since. Meeting Tim Vaughan with Simon Nott.

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TIM VAUGHAN (part 1 of 4)

Tim talks about his background as champion Welsh point to point rider, then throwing his lot into training point to pointers as a permit holder with a handful of horses in a makeshift yard at the bottom of a mountain and how improving a horse from another yard attracted owner Andrew Lowrie which led to applying for and being granted a full license to train.

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TIM VAUGHAN  (part 2 of 4)

Tim talks about buying his current Pant Wilkin yard, then having to tell the vendor that they had a ‘little problem’, soaking up as much knowledge as he could to become successful as a trainer, the secret of his success a combination of improving horses and finding the right races for them. How his owners liked a bet and the gambles landed from the yard.

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TIM VAUGHAN (part 3 of 4)

How did he feel when a trainer said that he’d ruined his career, after improving one of his charges so much he decided to turn the game in. How the game has changed since he rattled up 100 winners and became the youngest trainer to do so. He talks about the friendly rivalry between himself and Evan and Christian Williams. Does he consider his yard to be a gambling yard?

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TIM VAUGHAN (part 4 of 4)

How did it feel when the boot was on the other foot and a horse went from him to win the Hennessey. How the yard has expanded up both metaphorically and physically, taking a regular ferry to Ireland for pony racing, monetising the yard from holiday homes and fishing and his hopes for the future.

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