Noble Champion Wins at Royal Ascot 2025 For Simon Sadler’s TBT Racing

Simon Sadler’s TBT Racing celebrated a landmark achievement at Royal Ascot in 2025 when Noble Champion stormed to victory in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes, marking the team’s first-ever Royal Ascot win. Under jockey Kieran Shoemark and trained by Ed Walker, Noble Champion delivered an exceptional performance, surging clear to win by more than three length.

“He’s driven me mad! He’s so talented and it’s remarkable that he’s come back from those disappointing runs,” Walker said. “I thought he was one of the best horses we’ve had at home and we felt if it didn’t work today it would be back to the drawing board. Simon Sadler has recently come into the game. He is an incredibly generous guy and says he wants to take the stable to the next level. He is giving all of his prizemoney from Ascot to a pancreatic and liver charity. He is a great man and we’re very lucky to have him on board. It means a lot, as I lost my father to pancreatic cancer.”

“He had a setback in January, which messed up our prep for the Greenham–he needed that run,” his trainer explained. “We always thought he was a Guineas horse. We really believed in him but we thought we’d go a sensible route and ran in a conditions race at Goodwood over a mile. There wasn’t much pace and he was keen and just got it all wrong.”

“We then brought him back to six furlongs at Newbury, because he had shown so much speed at home. We even thought we might end up supplementing him for the Commonwealth Cup, but that didn’t work and finally the trainer got it right! He has such a high cruising speed and is just a very smart horse.”

Shoemark added, “He was in a lovely rhythm and it was just a matter of time–when I pressed go, he really hit the line strong. It can be a lonely place in front here as, with the grandstand, there is plenty to look at. He would not have been in front a lot on his own before, so he was entitled to be a little bit green, but he is very talented.”