Henrietta Knight
Henrietta Catherine Knight (b. 15 December 1946) is an English racehorse trainer. Henrietta began training under rules in 1989 having previously trained over 100 winners in point-to-points between 1984 to 1989 and trains the horses on a farm in Lockinge, near Wantage in Oxfordshire.
She is best known for training triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate and Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Edredon Bleu. Both horses also won the King George VI Chase and were owned by Jim Lewis and his late wife Valerie.
Among her current stable stars are Impek, who finished third in the Ryanair Chase at the 2006 Cheltenham Festival, and Racing Demon, the winner of the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon Racecourse in 2006 and 2007.
Big race victories
1996 Glenlivet Hurdle (Aintree) Stompin
1997 Stayers Hurdle (Cheltenham) Karshi
1998-2001 4 Peterborough Chases (Huntingdon) Edredon Bleu
1998 Grand Annual Chase (Cheltenham) Edredon Bleu
2000 Lanzarote Hurdle (Kempton Park) Heart
2000 Sun Alliance Chase (Cheltenham) Lord Noelie
2000 Queen Mother Champion Chase (Cheltenham) Edredon Bleu
2000 Martell Mersey Novices’ Hurdle (Aintree) Best Mate
2001 Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase (Sandown Park) Best Mate
2002 Peterborough Chase (Huntingdon) Best Mate
2002 King George VI Chase (Kempton Park) Best Mate
2002 Cheltenham Gold Cup Best Mate
2003 Cheltenham Gold Cup Best Mate
2003 Clonmel Oil Chase(Clonmel) Edredon Bleu
2003 King George VI Chase (Kempton Park) Edredon Bleu
2003 Ericsson Chase (Leopardstown) Best Mate
2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup Best Mate
2005 Peterborough Chase (Huntingdon) Impek
2006 Peterborough Chase (Huntingdon) Racing Demon
