Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a British Thoroughbred horse trainer from Barbados specializing in flat racing. Let’s take a closer look at Sir Michael Stoute and his wife.
In 1998, he was knighted for his contributions to Barbados tourism.
He is the only trainer in the twentieth century to win five English Classics in a row and has won the title of Champion Trainer ten times.
What Happened To Sir Michael Stoute’s Wife Coral Pritchard-Gordon?
After a protracted illness, Coral Pritchard-Gordon, a well-known figure in the Newmarket racing world and a long-time partner of trainer Sir Michael Stoute, died at the age of 73 in August 2020. She had been hospitalized for 11 months after obtaining a malignant and incurable brain tumor.
Over the last two decades, Pritchard-Gordon has been a frequent sight at the races and on the gallops with Stoute. Her other big love was raising money for charity, particularly the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Her father, Paddy Harbord, created the Curragh Bloodstock Agency. Thus Pritchard-Gordon grew up with horses.
She was an outstanding horsewoman who used to ride every day and once competed in the Newmarket Town Plate, coming third.
Sir Michael Stoute’s Wife Family Details
Coral Pritchard-Gordon was born in Ireland.
She married Gavin Pritchard-Gordon in 1970, two years before he began training at Shalfeet, in Bury Road, as the daughter of Paddy Harbord, proprietor of the Curragh Bloodstock Agency, and niece of Champion Hurdle and Irish Oaks winning jockey Aubrey Brabazon. Later, they relocated to Stanley House, which was close by.
Mrs. Pritchard-Gordon had been with Sir Michael and a recognizable sight by his side on Newmarket Heath and at racecourses in the United Kingdom and around the world for more than 30 years when the couple, who had two kids, eventually divorced.
Her racing knowledge made her an indispensable component of his team and a popular character among all of his owners, including the Queen.
Sir Michael Stoute Career Details
Micheal Stoute, whose father was the Barbados Chief of Police, left the island when he was 19 years old to serve as an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan before launching his own horse training business in 1972.
On April 28, 1972, at Newmarket Racecourse in England, Stoute’s father’s horse, Sandal, won his first race as a trainer.
In the 1989/90 racing season, he was the trainer of Kribensis, who won the Triple Crown in Hurdling. Shergar, possibly Stoute’s most renowned horse, won the 1981 Epsom Derby before being taken, presumably by the IRA.
He won the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013 with Estimate, the Queen’s horse.
On the Bury Road in Newmarket, Stoute trains horses at Freemason Lodge Stables and Beech Hurst Stables.