Ben Colebrook

Ben Colebrook is the trainer of 2019 Kentucky Derby contender Knicks Go, who won the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity in fall 2018 and finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Colebrook, whose father John managed farms in central Kentucky, began working with horses while attending the University of Kentucky. He immersed himself in the industry as an assistant to trainers Fred Seitz and Christophe Clement before going out on his own. He saddled his first starter in 2012.

Colebrook conditioned top-class sprinter Limousine Liberal, a multiple graded stakes winner in 2017 and 2018. He also trained multiple graded stakes winner Sparkling Review and graded stakes winner Surgical Strike.