Kevin Philippart de Foy made giant strides in 2022 when his 60 winners doubled his previous best of the previous year and 2023 already augurs well for the young trainer in his base at Machell Place in Newmarket.
Philippart de Foy has already notched 18 winners from only 94 runners and has the likeable knack of improving horses he receives from other stables. He has also seen massive improvement from those already ensconced and Expert Agent has been one of the success stories so far with three wins in his three-year-old career and the prospect of more to come.
Vafortino has run two cracking race his season with another fine effort at Newmarket last week and the improvement shown by Lightship (who started off the year rated 67 and is now on a mark of 100) is nothing short of remarkable.
Kevin has some other promising sorts lurking in the background and kindly talked to Tony Elves of attheraces.com about his team.