History
Hannon's family has a tradition of horse training — his father Harry was also a trainer. In fact, Richard started out as his father's assistant and took over Harry's licence when he retired in 1970. At that time, there were only a dozen horses in the yard and in the intervening years Hannon's grew to be the largest in Britain in terms of number of horses - 270 in 2012. He now also operates from two sites - Herridge and Everleigh.
His reputation is as a specialist with two-year-olds and twice in the 90s he trained the champion juvenile filly - Lyric Fantasy and Lemon Souffle. He has also trained three 2,000 Guineas winners - Mon Fils (1973), Don’t Forget Me (1987) and Tirol (1990), the latter two of whom also won the Irish equivalent - and one 1,000 Guineas with Sky Lantern (2013).
His best known horse, however, is Canford Cliffs winner of five Group One races before his retirement in 2011.
His son Richard is currently the assistant trainer, and his son-in-law Richard Hughes is the stable jockey.
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