WILLIAM JARVIS will enter the 2012 season full of anticipation on the back of a solid 2011.
With 25 winners on the board from 148 runners, William’s strike rate of 17% was among the best in the country.
Diverting highlighted her trainer’s skill at placing his horses with four wins on the bounce while Qushchi progressed through the ranks to emerge as a potential Stakes performer in the making. Both fillies remain in training and are exciting prospects for 2012.
Beaufort Twelve won his only start at Newmarket in impressive fashion and could be a decent middle-distance performer next year as could Lothian Sky, who also showed promise on his only start.
With solid handicappers, Rock A Doodle Doo, Oriental Scot and Loki’s Revenge, all remaining in training, the future looks bright at Phantom House.
In 2008 William passed a notable landmark as he registered his 500th winner early in the year. That same year Gravitation carried the famous colours of Lady Howard de Walden to victory in Group company in the Lily Langtry Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.
William has enjoyed much success for the de Walden family most memorably with the outstanding Grand Lodge. He landed the Dewhurst Stakes at two before emerging victorious in the St James’s Palace Stakes the following year. In between, the son of Chief’s Crown was also a whisker away from Classic fame when going down by a short head in the 1994 renewal of the 2,000 Guineas .
A popular figure in Newmarket William has savoured Royal Ascot glory, a stack of Pattern race triumph and numerous victories in lucrative handicaps since taking out a licence to train in 1985. But it should come as little surprise that William has fared well in his chosen profession. His father Ryan Jarvis was a top-flight trainer for many years from the 1950s to the late 1970s, overseeing the careers of such fine horses as Lomond and Absalom, while William’s family are steeped in the fabric of Newmarket over the past 200 years.
William always wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and graduated to the helm at Phantom House after honing his skills working for Sir Henry Cecil as well enjoying a year-long stint in Australia with George Hanlon. Training in his own name, William has gone on to register a winner at every Flat track as well landing around 30 Group or Listed races with horses such as Sharpitor, Colmore Row and - more recently - La Persiana and Tobosa.
William remains eager for more success at all levels, while also seeking to provide his owners with a first-class service and enjoyment
