Trainer Profile

County Of Origin: Waterford

Date of licence: 1999

First winner: Fidalus (Paul Maloney), Tramore, January 1, 2000

Aintree Grand National winner: Minella Times (Rachael Blackmore) April 10, 2021

Significant horses (Selected): Minella Times, Honeysuckle, Sizing Europe, Bob Olinger, Special Tiara, Sizing Granite, Sizing John, Shanahan's Turn, Days Hotel, Smashing, Identity Thief, Petit Mouchoir, Minella Indo, A Plus Tard, Poker Party, Put The Kettle On. 

Did you know:

Two of Henry de Bromhead's achievements as a racehorse trainer are among the most noteworthy in the entire rich history of the sport. He is the only trainer to have won the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival in the same year, a feat he achieved in 2021. Just weeks later, he saddled the first two horses home in the Aintree Grand National. 

Henry won all four races in the space of four weeks. He set his Cheltenham record when taking the Champion Hurdle with the Rachael Blackmore-ridden Honeysuckle, the Champion Chase with Put The Kettle On, which was ridden by Aidan Coleman and the Gold Cup with the Jack Kennedy-ridden Minella Indo. He also took the runner-up spot in the Gold Cup with A Plus Tard which was ridden by Blackmore.

Just three weeks after his ground-breaking Cheltenham Festival success, Henry won the Aintree Grand National with the Rachael Blackmore-ridden Minella Times. For good measure, he also saddled the runner-up in the race, Balko Des Flos (Aidan Coleman). No trainer had sent out a 1-2 in the race since 1908 and de Bromhead is only the second to achieve the feat. 

Remarkably, Henry won both the Champion Hurdle (Honeysuckle) and the Gold Cup (A Plus Tard) again in 2022. Both horses were ridden by Rachael Blackmore and de Bromhead became the first trainer to complete back-to-back Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup doubles since Vincent O’Brien, who did it with Hatton’s Grace and Cottage Rake, in 1949 and 1950. 

Since Henry de Bromhead took over the reins at his father’s County Waterford yard late in 1999, he has gradually built a reputation as a shrewd and able trainer. He was well and truly launched onto the international stage by the emergence of Sizing Europe and that horse became one of the most popular horses of his generation. In all, he won 20 races including seven Grade 1 contests, with the highlight arguably being his success in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in 2011. Sizing Europe had won the Arkle Chase the year before. 

Put The Kettle On and Honeysuckle were both winners at the 2020 Cheltenham Festival and were among de Bromhead's six winners at the Festival the following year. He only lost out to Willie Mullins for the leading trainer title in 2021 on countback after both men saddled six winners. Put The Kettle became the first mare to win the Champion Chase in 2021.  

In addition to his success at the Festival in 2010 and 2011, Henry has had a winner at the Cheltenham Festival every year since 2017. In 2025, he brought his tally to 25 winners. He has won the Champion Hurdle on two occasions (Honeysuckle 2021, 2022), the Champion Chase four times (Sizing Europe 2011, Special Tiara 2017, Put The Kettle On 2021, Captain Guinness 2024) the Gold Cup twice (Minella Indo 2021 and A Plus Tard 2022) and he completed a full-set of the week's championship race when Bob Olinger won the Stayers' Hurdle in 2025. Henry has also won the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival with Balko Des Flos (2018) and Envoi Allen (2023). 

Updated: March 24, 2025