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Cullentra House Longwood Co Meath
Gordon Elliott is one of the leading National Hunt trainers in Ireland and has had plenty of winners on the Flat too, especially in recent years. He has had the unenviable task of chasing down Willie Mullins and, while that has been next to impossible in the last few seasons, he has had a significant amount of success.
The County Meath-based trainer is based in the village of Longwood, about 50km from Dublin. Elliott first took out his licence in 2006 and the yard has gone from strength to strength.
Elliott has won the Cheltenham Gold Cup once, with Don Cossack in 2016, and the Stayers? Hurdle twice, in 2023 and 2024. Both the Champion Chase and Champion Hurdle are still missing on his CV but will surely come eventually.
His racing career began as a teenager when he worked weekends and school holidays for Tony Martin and took out his amateur jockeys? licence as a 16-year-old.
He is fourth in the list of Cheltenham Festival trainers with 41 victories, with Wodhooh being the most recent of them in 2025. It surely won?t be long until he hits the 50 mark and you would imagine he?ll have jumped up the list by the time he retires.
Gallyhill provided Elliott with his 2,000th Irish winner in May 2022 and has a grand total of 2,684 winners in Britain and Ireland at the time of writing. The majority of those have come over jumps but 127 Flat winners isn?t too shabby either.
Elliott once registered seven winners at the same meeting, at Navan in December 2021. The Goffer, Ginto, Commander Of Fleet, Riviere D?Etel, Farouk D?Alene, Conflated and Itshwhatunitesus all came out on top on a memorable day for the yard.
The trainer used to be an amateur jockey and was pretty prolific in point-to-points and under rules, riding a total of 46 winners on the racecourse. His riding highlight was his victory on Nigel Twiston-Davies? King?s Road in the 1998 Punchestown Champion Bumper.
Tiger Roll was his first Grade 1 winner as a trainer in Britain, achieving that success in the 2014 JCB Triumph Hurdle, and Jessies Dream was the first to achieve the feat for him in Ireland four years earlier.
Tiger Roll is one of Elliott?s most famous horses and the talented and dependable bay had a glittering career. He won the Grand National twice and might have matched Red Rum?s hat-trick but for the COVID-19 pandemic. Five Cheltenham Festival victories were also achieved and the horse will forever be a legend.
Apple?s Jade won 11 Grade 1 races over hurdles from distances varying from two miles to three miles. This includes a 16-length success in the 2019 Irish Champion Hurdle and three wins in the Hatton?s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse.
Don Cossack achieved a career-high rating of 177 when winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup on his final start. He had won five Grade 1 chases before that and was an unlucky faller in the 2015 King George VI Chase at Kempton.
