Annabel Neasham’s training career took off like a rocket, but the addition of partner Rob Archibald’s name on the stable’s door at the start of this season has allowed another burst of growth. Young and ambitious, the pair told Matt Stewart they have no plans to slow down.
Twice, Rob Archibald has tried to keep pace with Annabel Neasham.
The first time he failed dismally. The second, much better.
Neasham wasn’t even in sight when both contested the 2018 Mongol Derby.
Run over the wild steppes of Mongolia and tracing travel routes used by Genghis Khan, the world’s longest horse race is scheduled for 10 days. Neasham and Adrian Corboy, Ciaron Maher’s horse breaker, won it in six.
Archibald was working for Coolmore in the UK and flew in with his two brothers and a cousin. The hapless lads finished seventh, a day behind Neasham and Corboy.
“I didn’t just finish ahead of him, I finished a day ahead of him,” Neasham chuckles at one of their great shared memories.
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