Our team

Olly joined Wathnan Racing in 2022 and has been instrumental in the early development of Wathnan as a global racing stable, One of the most experienced, well-liked and respected members of the international bloodstock community, Olly boasts an impressive career which spans the racing world. Racing in the Gulf has been a big part of Olly’s career. For 15 years, Olly played an integral role at Darley, ...

Ali manages Wathnan Racing’s stud farm in Doha and has been part of the Wathnan team since July 2022. His passion is to see the Wathnan breeding program grow and prosper in Qatar and Europe, with the aim of producing the best thoroughbred and Purebred Arabian horses in the world. The great Purebred Arabian champion Abbes gave Ali one of his greatest racing experiences, when carrying the Wathnan Racing ...

Ali has been part of Wathnan Racing since its inception in 2022 and holds the position of General Supervisor of the Racing Department. Ali’s role at Wathnan is to oversee racing operations worldwide, and he also represents us at race meetings both in Qatar and around the globe – including at his favourite meeting, Royal Ascot. Ali is an integral part of the leadership team, and one of the main ...

Richard’s introduction to racing was attending jumps meetings with his father, and – having left school at 16 – worked in racing stables and stud farms in England, the US and New Zealand. A founding director of leading bloodstock agency Blandford Bloodstock and based in Newmarket, Richard has purchased numerous Group 1 winners at public auction, most famously Epsom Derby hero Desert Crown, star ...

Alban is the principal trainer for Wathnan Racing in Qatar and has overseen some of Wathnan’s most memorable victories, including the rousing win of Abbes in the 2023 HH The Amir Sword. Each year, at the conclusion of the Qatar racing season, Alban returns to his native France with a select string of elite thoroughbred and Purebred Arabian horses to compete in Europe over the spring and summer in ...

Retained as stable jockey for Wathnan Racing since October 2023, shortly after steering home Ballymount Boy to a Stakes win at Doncaster, James is one of the leading jockeys on the international scene. He comes from a racing family – born just outside Newmarket, he is the son of former trainer Jacqueline Doyle. His sister Sophie Doyle is also a jockey, and rides in the US. James had his first race ...

Case was brought up in the heart of American racing at his family’s world-renowned Three Chimneys Farm in Kentucky. He began his professional career at the farm in 2004 and held the role of Chief Operating Officer. He oversaw the later years of the stallion careers of some of the most influential North American sires, among them Seattle Slew, Rahy and Dynaformer, who Clay remembers fondly – despite ...

Paulo, a Brazilian national, learned to ride as a six-year-old and has been passionate about horses ever since. Which makes perfect sense: his surname is Italian for ‘rider’. His choice of equestrian sport as a young man is one of the few not pursued by Wathnan – ‘vaquejada’, the authentic rodeo games of the vaqueiros of north-east Brazil. For four years from 2014, he was Professor of ...