{{short description|Irish racehorse trainer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2025}}
'''Gavin Cromwell''' (born 29 September 1974) is an Irish dual-purpose racehorse trainer. He has won multiple Grade 1 races, including the 2025 [[Cheltenham Gold Cup]].
==Background== Cromwell comes from [[Ardcath]], [[County Meath]], where his grandfather and uncle trained horses.<ref name=Meath>{{cite web|url=https://meathlive.net/2023/11/27/exclusive-gavin-cromwell-the-man-behind-the-horses/|title=Exclusive; Gavin Cromwell the man behind the horses|access-date=4 April 2025|work=Meath Live}}</ref><ref name=tractor>{{cite web|url=https://irishtractor.ie/gavins-a-shoe-in-for-racing-success/|title=Gavin's a 'shoe-in' for racing success|date=15 August 2017|work=Irish Tractor}}</ref> Originally hoping to become a jockey, Cromwell worked in yards in Ireland, [[Newmarket, Suffolk|Newmarket]] and Australia, before returning to Ireland to start a four-year [[farrier]] apprenticeship.<ref name=tractor/> He took out a trainer's licence in 2005, while continuing to work as a farrier until he became established.<ref name=tractor/>
==Career as a trainer== Cromwell sent out his first winner from his Danestown yard in April 2007, when Dodder Walk won a handicap [[Hurdling (horse race)|hurdle]] at [[Cork Racecourse|Cork]].<ref name=GC> {{cite web|url=https://www.racingpost.com/news/features/interviews/gavin-cromwell-cheltenham-is-the-olympics-of-jump-racing-if-you-have-a-good-one-you-hate-to-miss-it-a0O9W1b8BKIq/|title=Gavin Cromwell: 'Cheltenham is the Olympics of jump racing - if you have a good one, you hate to miss it'|date=29 September 2024|work=Racing Post}}</ref><ref name=HRI>{{cite web|url=https://www.hri.ie/statistics/trainer/data/?tid=10265|title=Gavin Cromwell|access-date=4 April 2024|work=Horse Racing Ireland}}</ref> He achieved his first Grade 1 success when Jer's Girl won the [[Honeysuckle Mares Novice Hurdle|Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final]] at [[Fairyhouse Racecourse|Fairyhouse]] in March 2016.<ref name=HRI/> His first success at the [[Cheltenham Festival]] came in 2019, when [[Espoir d'Allen]] won the [[Champion Hurdle]].<ref name=HRI/> When [[Inothewayurthinkin]], owned by [[J. P. McManus]] and ridden by [[Mark Walsh (jockey)|Mark Walsh]], won the [[Cheltenham Gold Cup]] in 2025, it was the trainer's eighth victory at the Festival.<ref name=HRI/>
Although better known as a [[National hunt racing|National Hunt]] trainer, Cromwell also trains horses to run on the flat and is one of the few trainers to have had winners at both the Cheltenham Festival and [[Royal Ascot]], where his first winner was Quick Suzy in the Grade 2 [[Queen Mary Stakes]].<ref name=GC/><ref name=HRI/>
==Personal life== Cromwell is married to Kiva, with whom he has three children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theirishfield.ie/racing/inside-racing/the-big-interview-gavin-cromwell-439337|title=The Big Interview: Gavin Cromwell|date=8 February 2019|work=The Irish Field}}</ref>
==Cheltenham Festival winners (9)== *[[Cheltenham Gold Cup]] - (1) [[Inothewayurthinkin]] (2025) *[[Champion Hurdle]] - (1) [[Espoir d'Allen]] (2019) *[[Stayers' Hurdle]] - (2) [[Flooring Porter]] (2021, 2022) *[[Spa Novices' Hurdle|Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle]] - (1) Vanillier (2021) *[[Liberthine Mares' Chase]] - (1) Limerick Lace (2024) *[[Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup]] - (1) [[Inothewayurthinkin]] (2024) *[[Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase]] - (1) Stumptown (2025), Final Orders (2026)
==Other major wins== {{flagicon|Ireland}} '''Ireland''' *[[Honeysuckle Mares Novice Hurdle|Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final]] - (1) Jer's Girl (2016) *[[Alanna Homes Champion Novice Hurdle|Tattersalls Ireland Champion Novice Hurdle]] - (1) Jer's Girl (2016) *[[Christmas Hurdle (Ireland)|Christmas Hurdle]] - (1) Flooring Porter (2020) *[[Spring Juvenile Hurdle]] - (1) Hello Neighbour (2025)
{{flagicon|UK}} '''Great Britain''' *[[Mildmay Novices' Chase]] - (1) [[Inothewayurthinkin]] (2024)
== References == {{Reflist}}
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