For more than 20 years, Axom has given horse racing enthusiasts the chance to experience racehorse ownership through syndication with small groups of like-minded individuals. As of 2021, Axom horses have collectively won more than 100 races, including at the highest level, with the likelihood of further wins to follow from the current Axom string.
Deano's Beeno set the ball rolling in 1997 and this enigmatic yet hugely talented hurdler became Axom's first Grade 1 winner with his stunning victory over Baracouda in the 2002 Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot. After his lengthy, successful career, he enjoyed a happy retirement at Greatwood's home for retired racehorses. In 2014, Irving became Axom's second Grade 1 winner with a stunning victory in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle. Irving will always remain close to the heart of his trainer, Paul Nicholls, as he was Paul's 100th Grade 1 success. Just a week later, Paul trained Vibrato Valtat to win the Grade 1 Henry VIII Novices' Chase at Sandown in great style, and added the Haldon Gold Cup to his CV the following season. Irving showed great courage to repeat the feat in the 2016 Fighting Fifth Hurdle, beating the subsequent Cheltenham Festival winner, Apple's Jade, by a short head.
Supporting Axom's top-class horses have been a wealth of very good hurdlers and chasers. Bouggler was a winner on the Flat before developing into an excellent hurdler, winning the Grade 2 Mersey Novices' Hurdle in 2009. Far West (a dual Grade 2 winner and runner-up in the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle), the much-missed Edgardo Sol (Grade 3 winner and Cheltenham Festival veteran) and Shotgun Paddy (Grade 3 winner and third in the 2016 Welsh National) have ensured that Axom's name has remained in lights at all the major Jumps Festivals through the past decade, while other successes included Ziga Boy, who is the only horse to win two renewals of the Great Yorkshire Chase in over 70 years, providing his owners with two phenomenal days out at Doncaster. Listed-winning mares Tagrita and Lifeboat Mona both excelled during the 2016/17 season, prior to their retirement to join the breeding shed, while one of Emma Lavelle's best horses, the multiple winner Javert, was second in Aintree's Old Roan Chase in October 2018. Of the current string, the Alan King-trained Fidux has developed into a very good chaser. A Listed winner over hurdles, he has won, or finished second or third, in six of his nine chase starts to the start of 2021.
On the Flat, Listed winner Athenian flew the flag until her retirement in 2014, but the ultra-consistent Star Fire won four times in 2015 for the Master of Beckhampton, Roger Charlton. Blakeney Point, another to be trained at Charlton's Beckhampton Stables, was a multiple winner, and ran with great credit in top handicaps such as the Ebor and the Old Newton Cup.
With Axom's policy of never compromising when purchasing new bloodstock, every owner who joins us has a chance of being involved with a potential star. Axom's record of finding winners is extraordinary and, as we move ever forwards, our commitment and passion means that we look forward to giving our clients a unique and memorable racehorse ownership experience for many years to come.