After saddling runners at Sandown on Thursday, Jamie Snowden will join the cast and crew of new Guy Ritchie film ‘Wife & Dog’ at the track
A trainer whose clients include the King and Queen is set to mix with Hollywood royalty.
Jamie Snowden’s racing accomplishments include two Cheltenham Festival victories out of more than 400 winners.
The former captain in the Kings Royal Hussars rode over 100 winners as an amateur, winning both the Grand Military Gold Cup and Royal Artillery Gold Cup four times and rode the late Queen Elizabeth’s First Love to victory in a race honouring the Queen Mother, also at Sandown.
On Thursday he will fulfil his day job by attempting to win the Royal Artillery Gold Cup for a second time as a trainer with Farceur Du Large at Sandown.
Afterwards he is set to link up with movie director Guy Ritchie who is due to film scenes for his latest movie ‘Wife & Dog’.
Ritchie, who is behind the Netflix hit drama ‘The Gentlemen’, has assembled an A-list cast headlined by Oscar-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rosamund Pike.
Details of the plot have been kept under wraps but the IMDB website reported it will be set within the ‘colourful, back-stabbing world of British aristocracy’.
The stars of the film are due to be on track on Thursday during a live raceday with Sandown Park understood to have committed to providing the most authentic racing experience possible.
Snowden says he has been given few details but has been recruited to play the role of a trainer of horses owned by Hopkins’s character.
“I know very little about it,” said Snowden. “I’ve just been asked to come along. I believe I might be Sir Anthony Hopkins’s trainer and I have to go and do a bit of filming at Sandown.
“I was asked to do it and thought it could be quite fun. I haven’t been told I will have any words to say. I wasn’t blessed with huge acting skills at school so I imagine it will just be a bit of filming. I don’t think my name will be appearing in the credits.”
He added: “I would love to say I’m going to be the next Anthony Hopkins but that’s not going to be the case.”
Ritchie’s film crew will be operating during a live raceday, a popular event for members of the armed forces.
Farceur Du Large won both the Grand Military Gold Cup and Royal Artillery Gold Cup last year and will be aiming to step up on last month’s second place at Sandown under Major Will Kellard.
“I was lucky enough to win both races as a jockey on four occasions each and won it as a trainer last year and now we are going back with the same horse. He will have a definite chance again.”
