As a jockey, Nick Scholfield rode his first winner under National Hunt Rules, Lou Du Molin Mas, trained by Paul Nicholls, in an amateur riders’ handicap chase at Newbury on November 24, 2006. He went on to ride professional for 19 years, eventually retiring on April 6, 2025, the day after the Grand National, with a total of 670 winners to his name on British soil, plus two more in Ireland.
Nowadays based at Felstead Court Stables in Lambourn, West Berkshire, Scholfield began his training career as recently as the autumn of 2025, saddling his first winner, St Irene, ridden by Jack Quinlan, in a mares’ maiden hurdle at Wincanton on November 20, 2025. Indeed, St Irene followed up in the Byerley Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle at Taunton over Christmas to give Scholfield his first Listed winner as a trainer.
All told, his inaugural season as a licence holder yielded 20 winners from 115 runners, at a respectable 17% strike rate, and over £250,000 in prize money. The biggest payday of his fledgling career, so far, came on March 21, 2026, when Queenie St Clair, ridden by Freddie Keighley, won Herring Queen Series Final Mares’ Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Kelso, worth £51,440 to winning connections. Indeed, while it may be too soon to draw firm conclusions, it may be worth noting that
Scholfield has saddled three runners at Kelso, two of which (both hurdlers) have won, and has collected more prize money at the Scottish Borders venue than anywhere else.
At the time of writing, Scholfield currenty lies eleventh in the 2026/27 trainers’ championship table,
having saddled 14 winners from 114 runners, so far, and amassed £177,000 in prize money. His leading money winner has been the five-year-old gelding Morning Mayhem, who has won two of hise nine starts and just over £48,000 in prize money.
