Born into a racing family, Steve Burridge has been involved in the racing industry as a professional jockey and trainer for over 35 years and this experience is standing him in excellent stead in the competitive training ranks in Singapore.

Steve’s father, Harold, was also a jockey and a young Steven was eager to follow in his dad’s footsteps and at age thirteen was sent to trainer John Patterson to start a career that would eventually see him ride over a 1,000 winners for over 10,000 race rides.

His riding highlights, which there were many, include winning on a young Super Impose, who was having his first race start, and of course winning the Group 1 Oakley Plate on Mighty Avalanche in 1984.

After 18 years in the saddle in Australia, Steven decided to try his hand on the lucrative Asian circuit and rode for 5 years in Macau with considerable success.

However, it was in Macau that Steven took his first interest in Bloodstock and, under the guidance of renowned Bloodstock Expert Jeff Gordon, started buying some successful horses for owners in Hong Kong and Macau.

With weight getting the better of him, Steven decided to call it quits as a jockey in 1992 and concentrate on Bloodstock and, with an offer to move to Singapore from his former boss Claude Charlet, try his hand at assisting a trainer.

Steve took to the life in the training barns and early mornings with a stopwatch like a duck to water and it wasn’t long before he was asked by compatriot Michael Kent to help set up the yards at the then Bukit Timah Turf Club.

It was during this time that he met his future wife, Julie, who was riding track work in Singapore, and the pair not only became inseparable off the track, but a great team when it came to preparing horses.

Two years later Steve and Julie moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to work as assistant trainers where Steve had considerable success with many horses including Ballistic who won the Penang Gold Cup and the Coronation Cup in 2000.

With an eye on the future Steve moved his operations to Singapore in 2002 and in 2003 was granted his full training license and 45 stables by the Singapore Turf Club.

Since then the stable has gone from strength to strength. In 2005 Steven notched up his first Group winner with World Airlines in the Jumbo Jet Trophy. In 2006 King And King won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. King And King also ran a credible 2nd in the Singapore Airlines International Group 1 race. Recently, he took the the Group 3, Three Rings Trophy in February 2007 with World Delight and was runner up in the same race with Graduate Boy.