Nationality - Irish based trainers have won the championship 3 times Paddy Prendergast (1963-65), Vincent O'Brien (1966 & 1977) and Aidan O'Brien (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2016 & 2017) while French based Charles Semblat won the championship in 1950. In 1901 American trainer John Huggins was the first trainer from outside England to win the championship. Championship winner Cecil Boyd-Rochfort who trained out of Newmarket was Irish born while Frank Butters who was also Newmarket based was born in Vienna, Austria.
Nationality - Irish-based trainers have won the championship 3 times: Paddy Prendergast (1963-65), Vincent O'Brien (1966 & 1977), and Aidan O'Brien (2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2016, and 2017). French-based Charles Semblat won the championship in 1950. In 1901, American trainer John Huggins was the first non-English trainer to win the championship. Championship winner Cecil Boyd-Rochfort was born in Ireland while Frank Butters, who trained out of Newmarket, was born in Vienna, Austria.