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Dermot Weld
Occupation
Trainer
Born
(1948-07-29) 29 July 1948 (age 75) Ireland
Career wins
3000+ (ongoing)
Major racing wins
European Flat racing: Irish Oaks (1981, 1996) Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (1984, 1985) Irish 2,000 Guineas (1986) Irish 1,000 Guineas (1982, 1988, 2006, 2010, 2022,2023) Derby Italiano (1992) St. James's Palace Stakes (1992) Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (1993) Irish St. Leger (1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) Irish Derby (1996, 2004, 2016) Prix Royal-Oak (2001)
International: Hong Kong Mile (1991) Melbourne Cup (1993, 2002)[1] Secretariat Stakes (2008)
Steeplechase / Hurdling:
Anniversary 4-Y-O Novices' Hurdle (1986) Irish Grand National (1988) Triumph Hurdle (1990) Irish Champion Hurdle (1994, 1995) Punchestown Gold Cup (1980) Ryanair Gold Cup (1992)
Racing awards
Champion trainer (Ireland), 21 times
Significant horses
Vintage Crop, Blue Wind, Committed, Media Puzzle Grey Swallow, Go and Go, Vinnie Roe
Dermot K. Weld (born 29 July 1948), a former jockey is one of Ireland's most successful racehorse trainers. He holds the record for the most winners trained in Ireland (2,578 set in August 2000).
Weld maintains his stable, Rosewell House, in Curragh, Ireland. He is married, with two sons.
Irish bookmakers, Paddy Power, tried to launch a campaign to change the name of the Galway Races to the Dermot Weld Retirement Fund Races; however, it proved to be unsuccessful.
He was played by Brendan Gleeson in the feature film The Cup.
Dermot K. Weld (born 29 July 1948), a former jockey is one of Ireland's most successful racehorse trainers. He holds the record for the most winners trained...
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in the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby in 2016. He was stable jockey to DermotWeld from 1999 until 2018. Smullen was born in County Offaly and was introduced...
finished seventh and third, respectively. Vintage Crop was trained by DermotWeld, who returned to Australia in 2002 and again won the Melbourne Cup with...
Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse. It was won by Media Puzzle, trained by DermotWeld and ridden by Damien Oliver. A week before the race Damien's older brother...
Fascinating Rock (2015), Rose De Pierre (2017) Leading trainer (7 wins): DermotWeld – Tian Shan (2008), Famous Name (2010,2011,2012), Fascinating Rock (2015)...
was sent to the Goffs Orby sale, where he was sold for IR£50,0001 to DermotWeld on behalf of the film director Jim Sheridan, who named the horse after...
Aga Khan's Harzand, ridden by Pat Smullen and trained in Ireland by DermotWeld. Harzand's victory was the first in the race for his jockey and trainer...
entered the ownership of Lady O'Reilly and was sent into training with DermotWeld at the Curragh, County Kildare. She was from the first crop of foals...
(2013), Cypress Creek (2018), Dawn Patrol (2020), Emily Dickinson (2022) DermotWeld - Silwana (2015), Renneti (2017), Search For A Song (2021), Falcon Eight...
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