Seamus Augustine Cahill is an Irish born

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. He is a British champion trainer and winner of the

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Career

Seamus Cahill is from Mullinhoe,

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and joined

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in 1994 working for Paddy Milligan. In 1997 he took control of Milligan's Catford Stadium racing kennels in

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and established himself as a leading trainer. He reached the final of the

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in his maiden year of 1997. One year later he moved from Catford to

Wimbledon Stadium Wimbledon Stadium, also known as Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, was a greyhound racing track located in Wimbledon in southwest London, England. It also hosted stock car and other small circuit motor racing events, and until 2005 hosted motorc ...

. In 2002 finished runner-up in the

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final with Call Me Baby and Shevchenko provided the first Classic win when sealing a

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triumph in the same year. A short lived move to

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was followed by a switch to

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before he won his first Trainers Championship at Wimbledon in 2008 and became

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in 2010. He trained the brilliant sprinter and 2010 Greyhound of the Year Jimmy Lollie and has won four

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's. His greatest achievement to date is winning the 2017 English Greyhound Derby with Astute Missile. In 2023, he won the

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for the first time with Droppys Clue, who broke the track record in the final and the

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, also for the first time.

Awards

He was the winner of the Greyhound Trainer of the Year in 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cahill, Seamus British greyhound racing trainers Irish greyhound racing trainers Living people 1948 births