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Accomplished English trainer Michael Jarvis dies

Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:25 PM

by Tim Nichols

Michael Jarvis, one Europe’s top flat trainers, died on Tuesday at age 73 following a fight with cancer.

Jarvis was among England’s most respected trainers at the time of his retirement earlier this year.

“He was a wonderful man— an inspiration not just to me but to a lot of people—and I think his training exploits go without saying,” Roger Varian, a former assistant who now runs Jarvis’ Kremlin House Stables, told Racing Post. “Everyone knows what a good racehorse trainer he was. I think he was first and foremost a husband and a father and a family man and a great friend to me.”

The Newmarket-based trainer started as a steeplechase jockey before changing careers and becoming a groom for trainer Towser Gosden and Gordon Smyth. He got his start as a trainer at Newmarket in 1968 for owner David Robinson, experiencing immediate success as eventual champion So Blessed won both the July Cup and Nunthorpe Stakes that year.

He went on to win some of the most prestigious races in the world, most notably capturing the 1989 CIGA Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Fr-G1) with Carroll House.

“He was a lovely man to ride for and a lovely man to know,” jockey Mick Kinane told The Guardian. Kinane rode Carroll House in the Arc.

Jarvis’ top charges include Rakti, who won four English Group 1 races for Jarvis, 2005 Vodafone Epsom Oaks (Eng-G1) winner Eswarah (GB), and Ameerat (GB), winner of the 2001 Sagitta One Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1) for owner Sheikh Ahmed al Maktoum.

“It was on home ground here in Newmarket and it was my first Classic, but it was also for my best client,” Jarvis told Racing Post earlier this year about Ameerat’s classic win. “I later trained horses for the other Maktoum brothers, but Sheikh Ahmed was my mainstay.”

Tim Nichols is internet content editor for Thoroughbred Times

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Posted by: KautoStar, Cambridge, UK, NB on September 20, 2011 at 09:15 PM

A sad loss, but even sadder that Thoroughbred Times has not even deigned to produce a similar article following the death of Ginger McCain on Monday. Very poor.

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Posted by: Medlocke, Louisville, KY on September 20, 2011 at 04:49 PM

Truly, a sad, sad loss for the sport!! I didn't really know that much about Michael Jarvis on a personal level? But for the past 30+ years that I've followed European turf racing as closely as American racing, as a trainer, I can certainly tell you that Jarvis was right off the top shelf!! One of the last of the "old time" trainers left in the UK. I had heard quite sometime back that Jarvis was ill, and that was the reason that trainer Roger Varian, who worked underneath Jarvis for years as an assistant trainer, was taking over his stable. I can't ever remember a time that Michael Jarvis sent a horse out to race for Hamdan Bin Al Maktoum, or anyone else that wasn't impeccably trained. Sincerest heart felt condolences to the Jarvis family at this tough hour!!

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Posted by: jonjo, darlington, NB on September 20, 2011 at 03:38 PM

not only was he a good trainer he was a gentleman aswell rip michael

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