18 Facts About Michael Tabor

Michael Barry Tabor was born on 28 October 1941 and is a British racehorse owner.

Michael Tabor regularly appears on the Sunday Times Rich List of the richest people in Britain.

Michael Tabor was brought up in Forest Gate in east London, the son of a glassmaker.

Michael Tabor was nearly a hairdresser, enrolling at the Morris School of Hairdressing in Piccadilly, but instead turned to bookmaking.

Michael Tabor's father had for a time been in partnership with a bookmaker at Romford Greyhound Stadium and Michael Tabor himself became interested in gambling in his teens, spending Monday and Friday afternoons at Hendon's greyhound stadium in north London and regularly attending the track at White City.

Michael Tabor bought several more, including Royal Derbi, trained, as was Tornado Prince, by Neville Callaghan in Newmarket.

In 1994 Michael Tabor paid more than $400,000 for the promising two-year-old thoroughbred Thunder Gulch.

Michael Tabor's investment allowed Magnier to become a major buyer in the top yearling sales, a role he had not played since the mid-1980s when he had acted in conjunction with Robert Sangster and other associates.

Michael Tabor became the owner and co-owner of an extraordinary catalogue of some of the world's best racehorses, generally owning the Coolmore horses in a three-way partnership with Magnier and his wife Sue, and later with Derrick Smith, who became involved in the mid-2000s.

Montjeu won the Irish Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1999, while Michael Tabor won The Derby in 2001 and 2002 with Galileo and then High Chaparral, the latter horse winning the Irish Derby and the Breeders' Cup Turf.

Michael Tabor won the Derby again, with Pour Moi in 2011 and with Camelot in 2012, the year that horse took the 2,000 Guineas and the Irish Derby at the Curragh, though he missed out on the English Triple Crown by finishing second in the St Leger.

Michael Tabor won the Derby again in 2024 with City of Troy.

Michael Tabor was the breeder, as well as the owner, of Giant's Causeway, winner of numerous Group One races, and in 1995 his Hurricane Run was voted the world's top-ranked racehorse by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

Michael Tabor gained a reputation as a shrewd, daring and successful gambler, whose actions could dramatically affect the odds being offered on a horse.

Michael Tabor worked for commission agents and credit bookmakers before setting up in business for himself in 1968.

Michael Tabor's racing associations have extended into other areas of business.

McManus, Michael Tabor is one of the co-owners of the luxury Sandy Lane hotel in Barbados.

Michael Tabor's other business dealings include an investment in two London hotels and a failed attempt in 1996 to buy West Ham United football club, whom he has supported since he was a boy.