Cape based Trainer Joey Ramsden has been awarded a Singapore Turf Club trainers licence.

British-born Joey Ramsden, 50, has plied his trade with great success in South Africa in the last 24 years. After learning his craft in Kentucky and former trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith in Sydney, Australia, he moved back home to work for the late Michael Roberts and Vaughan Marshall, returned to UK in 1994 to train for his parents at Southwell, saddling around 16 winners before permanently returning to South Africa as a trainer in his own right in 1995.

Ramsden was quick to establish himself among the leading trainers on the South African log, especially in Cape Town where he is based at Milnerton. He is also regularly featured at the winner’s circles in Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth.

He was crowned Cape champion trainer four times, with a third place his highest finish on the national log. He has won all-up more than 1,750 races, including 26 at Group 1 level with top South African horses such as two-time South African Horse of the Year Variety Club, Attenborough, Just Sensual, Winter Solstice, Red Ray and The Conglomerate with whom he won the Durban July Handicap in 2016.

Ramsden also has 35 Group 2 winners, 56 Group 3 winners as well as 62 Listed winners to his name.

Overseas, Ramsden also made his mark with Variety Club’s all-the-way win in the 2014 Group 2 Godolphin Mile at Meydan in Dubai.

 Singapore Turf Club Release