Michael is one of the co-founders and CEO of Eclipse and heads up commercial and strategic operations. Michael has ten years' experience in the thoroughbred industry and worked for Coolmore Australia and Patrick Gallagher in Santa Anita, California. Michael then worked at the Racing Post Bloodstock Department, where he managed accounts, technology projects and personalised apps for major breeding operations. He is currently the COO of Natalma, a global bloodstock fund launched in July 2021.

A co-founder and Director of Analytics at Eclipse, John grew up on a stud farm in Ireland and is a bloodstock journalist and former editor of Pacemaker and of The Thoroughbred Breeder. He also had contributed articles to the Sporting Life, Bluebloods, European Bloodstock News and Thoroughbred Daily News in the US and Australia. A long-standing believer in the power of advanced bloodstock data analytics, he was a member of the Darley/Godolphin team from 2001 to 2022 first as Head of Group Marketing and then as Group Head of Research and is the driver behind the development of Eclipse’s unique bloodstock algorithm.

Having grown up on his family’s Barton Stud near Newmarket, George studied at Edinburgh University, graduating with First Class Honours in Politics. Following this, George spent time in the Southern Hemisphere working for Gai Waterhouse as well as New Zealand Bloodstock. After this George, took part in the Godolphin Flying Start 2020-2022 graduating top of his class. During which, George spent time working with Tweenhills Stud, Freedman Brothers Racing and auction house Tattersalls.

Emma completed a business degree before gaining a place on the Godolphin Flying Start Program in 2014. Emma then joined Shadwell to work under Racing Manager Angus Gold as bloodstock assistant before taking up a Sales and Nominations role within Coolmore Australia in 2019, expanding on her global breeding and racing knowledge. She has subsequently worked alongside Boomer Bloodstock covering all the major worldwide sales. Having an extensive equestrian background, Emma has handled two Kentucky Derby winners in Nyquist and Always Dreaming when working alongside the late Gerry Dilger. More recently at Coolmore Australia she helped break in Group 1 winners Home Affairs, Fangirl and Lindermann.

A former barrister who studied law at Cambridge and Harvard, Tessa is a lifelong racing fan and decided to switch to working within the industry in 2012. She completed the Godolphin Flying Start programme which gave her an excellent grounding in racing and breeding around the world, and then spent eight years as Racing Manager to leading trainer Andrew Balding in Kingsclere, working in principally in race planning, owner communications and yard management and playing an integral role in the sourcing of young horses for the yard. Now a freelance consultant, Tessa conducts project work for Eclipse, combining research and analytical skills with her knowledge from hands-on experience in the industry.

Elijah joined in 2023 as an analyst, contributing largely to the development of Eclipse’s research and growth of algorithms. Exposed to all things equestrianism from a young age, his passion for horses, combined with an academic outlook, formed the foundation of his knowledge of bloodstock. Elijah has a wealth of experience in applying historical data to forecast success in the thoroughbred. During his time at the University of Bristol, he interned as a researcher for Sky Sports Racing, and then had the privilege of working with and learning from Bill Oppenheim on several projects.