2026 Trainer Rankings & Awards

A trainer’s reputation is often self-fulfilling. The fashionable yard attracts the best horses, and the best horses burnish the yard’s name further still, while an equally gifted trainer, perhaps just starting out, can go unnoticed simply for lack of connections. Equine Decision Science™ levels that field.

Each year, we publish a trainer ranking based on a simple, elegant premise: what if every yard had started the season with horses of identical potential. who are the top 10 ranked in order.

Stripped of fortune and fashion, the ranking reveals who, given the same raw material, truly brought out the most, the shining stars of the training world, wherever they happen to be based.

2026 Dream Foal Rankings

Each year, based on the official returns book, Equine Decision Science™ publishes its top five foals to watch, beginning with the United Kingdom and Ireland, with plans to extend to France and beyond.