Is mark todd retired

Mark started his career in Eventing and Show jumping after realising that he was too tall to achieve his dream of becoming a Jockey.

Mark todd medals

After a successful 22-year career, which included two Olympic Gold medals, three Badminton wins, five Burghley wins, Horses & Hounds Rider of the Century and being named FEI Event Rider of the Century; Mark and his family relocated back to New Zealand to pursue a new career in breeding and training racehorses.

In his second season as a trainer, Mark, trained a Classic winner with three-year-old filly Bramble Rose, whom he purchased as a yearling form the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales.

She won the Group-1 (GR1) New Zealand Oaks and was placed in two further GR1’s in an Australian campaign. Bramble Rose was ultimately named Champion three year old stayer of her year.

Mark also trained Willy Smith, winner of the GR1 Wellington Cup along with other notable horses who would go on to win group races.

Mark and his wife Carolyn were also involved in breeding and bred Tahamkke out of Cantango, a daughter of their high-class race mare, Sou