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Paddy Twomey is based in County Tipperary and trains from his Athassel House yard. It surely won’t be long before some of the sport’s biggest names begin to take note and he’s an exceptional trainer who improves every season.
Twomey’s training model focuses on quality over quantity and it has yielded some very impressive results. He has been able to maintain a very healthy strike-rate and his profile grows every year, despite having significantly fewer runners than his rivals.
Accuracy is key to how Twomey operates and that is reflected in the numbers. He has had 184 winners from 666 runners on the Flat in Ireland, giving him a very impressive career strike-rate of 27 per cent.
The last five years have yielded 138 winners from 475 runners at an impressive strike-rate of 29 per cent. Clonmel is the only track at which he has had runners and no winners but he is 7-9 at Ballinrobe, which is outstanding.
Twomey has had just two runners under jumps rules in Britain and both of them won. This includes a Grade 2 success at Aintree’s Grand National meeting and a Listed win at Cheltenham. You can’t get much more accurate than that.
Paddy Twomey was well known in the breeze-up and pin-hooking circles before becoming a trainer and initially took out a restricted license in 2012. He had a winner with his very first runner, Hunting Goddess, eight days after taking out his license.
Twomey has just two Flat winners in Britain, albeit from a relatively small pool of runners.
One of those came at Royal Ascot in 2025 when Carmers won the Group 2 Queen’s Vase.
One winner at the royal meeting isn’t too shabby when you’ve only had ten runners at the track.
York’s Ebor Festival was the scene of Twomey’s only other winner in Britain, with that success coming in the Listed Julia Graves Rose Stakes in 2022. The fact that his two winners have come at two of Britain’s biggest meetings further emphasises the success of his system.
La Petite Coco won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes in 2022, providing Twomey with his first success at the top level. She managed to hold off the sustained challenge of favourite and British raider My Astra, to score by half a length.
He didn’t have to wait too long for a second Group 1 winner, as Pearls Galore went on to win the Matron Stakes a few months later. Making all the running that day, her rivals had no answer and she went on to score by three lengths.
The aforementioned Carmers has been a bit of a stable star so far this season and he maintained his unbeaten record to win the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot in June. That race has worked out exceptionally well and Carmers went on to finish fifth in the St Leger.
Sonaiyla gave Twomey his first success in Group company back in 2021, when she won the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes at the Curragh. Overcoming an issue in the starting stalls, the then five-year-old went on to beat Romantic Proposal by half a length.
