Alan Mccabe

Alan McCabe has survived a mid-year move ofsuccessful jockey for the stable having ridden 18 out
stables and a couple of months when he didn't have aof the 33 winners so far this year which includes 11 of
runner. In the process he lost several of his bestthe 19 sprint winners. In spite of being a stable which
horses as his chief patron and owner of the Haygarthhas produced a hefty level stake loss this year,
House stables Paul Dixon, brought in Jeremy Glover toWinston has managed to make an impressive 45.75
take over being in charge. Alan though is now settledpounds level stake profit from a 1 pound unit.
into his smart new stables at Averham Park and there2008 saw many more winners in the first half of the
are the first signs of better things to come.year (29) compared to the second (13) and it is
14 out of 19 sprint winners so far this year have beenundoubtedly going to be the same trend this year. At
achieved on the all-weather and that's about the samethe time of writing (mid-November) there had been 30
proportion as the stable as a whole since it started inwinners up to the end of June and only 3 since.
August 2006. The McCabe horses are mainly lowObviously the move of stables hasn't helped in this
grade and obviously get more wins in weaker racesregard, with no runners for a couple of months in the
of which there are a higher number on the all-weather.middle of the year, but many of the stable's horses
McCabe gets more wins at Southwell, Wolverhamptonnow looked well handicapped and I can see there
and Lingfield than Kempton. So far this year the stablebeing plenty of winners in the next four months or so
has had 4 winners at each of the first three namedtill the end of the all-weather season.
and just 2 at the latter. Turf wins seem to beStrike rate and numerically McCabe has always done
scattered around the northern courses with Thirsk andbest with his sprinters and names of horses which
Catterick having the best strike rate while Doncastershould be followed in this department are Fratellino,
has the most winners numerically but a slightly lowerTamasou, Cornus, Loose Caboose, Rosie Says No
winning percentage.and Fol Liam.
As far as jockeys, Robert Winston has been the most