Ivan Furtado

Ivan Furtado grew up on his family ranch in Brazil, and started riding when he was very young, around 4 years of age. He got the racing bug through helping to look after some racehorses his grandfather kept, and his keen interest in horses grew as he got older.

After university, he came to the UK and worked with National Hunt trainer Jim Old, and learned a lot during his five years there. He then spent two years as assistant trainer to Roger Charlton, where he was involved with some great horses. During an exciting period in his career, he rode Group 1 winner Al Kazeem in most of his work, and looked after other stable stars like Cityscape and Time Test. After that, he worked as assistant trainer to Alan McCabe.

Ivan values the varied experience he gained working with these trainers, as he learned to deal with very different types of horses – and very different owners! In 2015 he got his own licence, and started training near Doncaster.

He has since moved a few times, first to Averham Park Stables near Newark, then to Wiseton near Doncaster, and is currently based at Eboracum Racing stables in Yorkshire which is a newly built state of the art training facilitywith a large mile oval fibresand surface gallop with an additional extended straight section, and multiple barns for colts, fillies, youngsters and older horses as well as an isolation unit.