Ben Hastie put the questions and got the answers from Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips

Q: RICHARD, you started training racehorses in your own name in 1993, before that you spent eight years as assistant to Group 1 winning trainer Henry Candy - how has the actual training of racehorses changed in terms of technology, the science side of racehorses, feeding and gallop surfaces?
A: As I train mostly jumpers, I think Martin Pipe had a huge influence on myself and many other trainers. Interval training has been used with humans for a long time and Pipe developed this technique which ...