Gordon Elliott

In the 2018 Cheltenham Festival he finished as the top trainer this time with eight wins. That equalled a record set by Willie Mullins in 2015.

On 2 April 2018 Elliott won the Irish Grand National for the first time after saddling a record 13 horses.

In 2018 he also won the Aintree Grand National with his horse Tiger Roll, ridden by Davy Russell and owned by Gigginstown House Stud (Michael O'Leary), narrowly beating the Willie Mullins runner Pleasant Company. Elliott also trained the third place horse Bless The Wings. He won the Aintree Grand National again in 2019 with Tiger Roll, only the sixth repeat winner in the race's history.

In the 2017 Cheltenham Festival he finished as the top trainer for the first time with six wins. It was the same number of wins as Willie Mullins but Elliott had one more second place than Mullins. In the 2017 Grand National Elliott trained Cause of Causes which came second. Elliott finished the 2016/17 season in second place to Mullins in the Irish national hunt trainer Championship.

Elliott has been very successful in the Cheltenham Festival in recent years, in particular in 2017.

He won the 2016 Cheltenham Gold Cup for the first time with Don Cossack.

His first winner at the Cheltenham Festival as a trainer was Chicago Grey in the prestigious National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup in 2011.

Although best known for his victories over jumps, Elliott had a major win on the flat in August 2010 when Dirar won Europe's most lucrative Flat handicap Ebor Handicap at York Racecourse.

On 14 April 2007 Gordon Elliott become the youngest ever trainer to win the world's most prestigious steeplechase, the Aintree Grand National. The horse, Silver Birch, was bought from Paul Nicholls. Despite having won the Grand National, Elliott had not at that stage trained a winner on the track back home in Ireland. The first winner he trained in Ireland was Toran Road at Kilbeggan on 5 May 2007.

As a jockey Gordon achieved good success, notably two winners at Cheltenham, the Punchestown Champion Bumper and five winners in the United States of America. He retired as a jockey in 2005.

Gordon Elliott (born 2 March 1978) is a County Meath-based National Hunt racehorse trainer from Ireland who was 29 when his first Grand National entry, the 33 to 1 outsider Silver Birch won the 2007 race on 14 April 2007. Owned by Brian Walsh of County Kildare, and ridden by Robbie Power, the horse held off McKelvey and Slim Pickings to win the Aintree Racecourse event. In 2018 and 2019 he won the Aintree Grand National with his horse Tiger Roll, ridden by Davy Russell and owned by Gigginstown House Stud, the first horse since Red Rum to win the race twice. In 2018 he also won the Irish Grand National.