Lucinda Russell: Profile, Record, Career & Earnings

Widely regarded as being Scotland's leading trainer of National Hunt horses, Lucinda Russell will be aiming for more Cheltenham Festival success in 2025.

From her base in Kinross she will be bringing a small but select team to the Cotswolds showpiece, with a clear design on big-race success.

Age: 58

Cheltenham wins: 3

Total Cheltenham winnings: £529,580

Net worth: Unknown

About Lucinda Russell

Russell is Scotland's premier jumps trainer. Since 1995, she has been training National Hunt horses at her yard in Kinross in Ayrshire and she has sent out winners at the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals.

Her yard is half an hour north of Edinburgh and there she trains with her partner Peter Scudamore, an eight-time champion jockey in Britain.

They have formed a lasting partnership that has helped produce the most successful racing yard in the history of Scottish jumps racing.

Russell celebrated the 1,000th winner of her career as Starlyte prevailed at Kelso in November 2024, with 960 of those coming over fences.

She is a major force north of the border, with 152 of that landmark tally coming at Ayr, while Starlyte was her 139th winner at Kelso.

Lucinda Russell age

Russell was born on 24th June 1966, meaning she is currently 58 years old.

Lucinda Russell Net Worth

Her net worth is unknown, but in the last five seasons Russell has helped her connections to win more than £4.5m in prize money in Britain.

Lucinda Russell Horses

Russell's breakthrough win at the Cheltenham Festival came in 2012 when Brindisi Breeze won the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle under the late Campbell Gillies.

Corach Rambler has added further Festival successes via back-to-back wins in the Ultima Handicap Chase in 2022 and 2023.

She is also no stranger to success at Aintree, where both One For Arthur (2017) and Corach Rambler (2023) have won the Grand National itself.

Ahoy Senor is a dual Grade 1 winner on Merseyside via the Sefton Novices' Hurdle in 2021 and the Mildmay Novices' Chase a year later.

Also in 2021, Mighty Thunder won the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, getting Russell's name on the roll of honour for Scotland's premier jumps race.

Lucinda Russell Achievements

One For Arthur's win at Aintree in 2017 saw him becoming only the second Scottish-trained winner of the Grand National and the first since Rubstic's victory in 1979.

Russell became the fourth woman to train a Grand National winner after Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams and Sue Smith.

She then went and repeated the feat in 2023, when Corach Rambler justified 8/1 favouritism to scoop the Merseyside marathon.

Owned by The Ramblers syndicate, Corach Rambler was bought for £17,000 in November 2020 and went on to become a two-time winner of the Ultima Chase at the Cheltenham Festival before his Aintree heroics.

Russell passed her personal best, numerically, in 2023/24 when netting 75 winners and also topped the £1m prize money barrier for the second time in succession.

Lucinda Russell Best Jockey

Derek Fox has been the man in the saddle for Russell's biggest days, steering both One For Arthur and Corach Rambler to Aintree Grand National glory.

Fox broke his wrist and dislocated a collarbone just over a month before One For Arthur's win, but recovered to be in the saddle, a feat he managed to repeat six years later having been sidelined immediately prior to Corach Rambler's win.

Born in Co Sligo in Ireland, Fox left school aged 14 with little in the way of reading ability having been diagnosed as dyslexic in his youth, but says he later became a self-taught reader in his early 20s and now reads extensively.

Tom Scudamore won the Scottish National for the yard, one of just a dozen winners he rode for Russell, while Peter Buchanan also ridden extensively for the yard before his retirement.