Jeremy and Camilla successfully trained point-to-pointers together for 15 years on their 370 acre dairy farm in Somerset, having their first runner in 1992. Jeremy rode a few “to understand what jockeys were talking about” and saddled his first hunter chase winner in May 2001 with County Derry winning at Stratford. Many more winners followed until 2007, when he took out his professional license.
His first winner under Rules was a novice hurdle in May with a pointer called Gone To Lunch who promptly also won his next two. A year later he sold the dairy herd and the existing facilities were developed to cope with the extra horses. A 300 metre schooling ring was linked to a three and a half furlong strip that rises up from the bottom of the farm and Jeremy posted 24 victories with 34 individual horses.
Gone To Lunch won five point-to-points, fell in the 2007 Christie's Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham, and then proved so successful over hurdles, winning four, that he was only narrowly beaten in the Sefton Novice's Hurdle at Aintree. He contracted pleural pneumonia and nearly died three years later before scoring an emotional success at Wincanton in the FJ Chalke Handicap Chase on October 23, 2011. He is now happily retired.
In October 2011, Jeremy took pride of place at the top of the Racing Posts ‘hot list’ and saddled seven winners from eight runners in ten days.
Jeremy scored his first Grade One success with Melodic Rendezvous in the Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown in 2013.
Having read Economics at Reading University, Jeremy and Camilla's oldest daughter Georgina runs the Jeremy Scott Racing Club. She also works full time with Charlie Longsdon having spent two months with Andrew Balding. Laura has finished studying at the Royal Agricultural College and is gnow the yard's head girl. She also events in her spare time.
Jeremy has been described as a stockman, a true gentleman, and a man with a very special way with horses, but he maintains none of his success would be possible without his wife Camilla.
Jeremy finished the 2016 - 2017 season the winner of the Jockey Club Racecourse's South West Region Frequent Runner Award (for trainers with 40 horses or less).
The Team
Head girl:
Laura Scott
Secretary:
Joe Scott
Travelling head girl:
Danni Stewart
Senior jockeys:
Nick Scholfield
Matt Griffiths
Conditional jockey:
Rob Hawker
Amateur jockey:
Vicky Wade
Stable staff:
Paul Davey
Keagan Kirkby
Helen McKenzie
Katie Low
Nicole Taylor
Ellie Goodall
James Beilby
Part time staff:
Neil Harris
Rachael Hurford
Leah Cunliffe
Ella Pickard
Pat Jefferies
Sarah Coates