ABSTRACT
The career of Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort spanned seven decades and, as flatrace trainer to the royal family from 1943 to 1968, he was responsible for a period of considerable royal success. Born in 1887 in Co. Meath and educated at Eton, he graduated from pupil trainer with H.S. Persse in 1906, to assistant trainer to Captain R. Dewhurst in 1908. In 1912, he became racing manager to multi-millionaire Sir Ernest Cassel and, after wartime service in the Scots Guards, he resumed this post before setting up on his own account at Freemason Lodge, Newmarket.
