Robert Robson

Robert Robson (c1765-1838) was a horse trainer.

The leading racehorse trainer of his time, he raised their status from glorified groom to professional. Based initially at Lewes he spent most of his career at Newmarket and continued to live there after his retirement in 1828, when, as a testimonial, members of the Jockey Club presented him with a piece of plate. He was said to be worth £60,000 at his death.

He jointly holds the record for training winners of the Epsom Derby. His horses have won the race seven times, only two other trainers have achieved this. He had some other successes e.g. his horses won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes six times and he saddled over a dozen winners of the Epsom Oaks. To his contemporaries he was known as "the Emperor of Trainers" and his horses benefited from a gentler regime from that then practised by most stables.

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