Author: jmlarga

Features | 22nd February 2019

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Surfing The Wave Of Racehorse Ownership

Published: 22nd February 2019

When Subway Surf returned to the winner’s enclosure at Ascot on Saturday after finishing third in the closing National Hunt Flat race, among those waiting to welcome him back were Carol Vorderman...
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Great Scot! £2,500 For A Group One Ready Colt?

Published: 25th October 2018

Mound and Clyne had become interested in the sport while colleagues, their ‘Working From Home’ days on Fridays turning into ‘Watching Racing From Home’ days more often than they might prefer to...
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Everybody loves Raymond

Published: 13th September 2018

An IT Manager based in the South‐East, Straker has in recent months been to places many other owners will neverget to visit having watched the horse he part‐owns under the Middleham Park...
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Excel Racing Hoping Eagle Strikes Ebor

Published: 23rd August 2018

Excel Racing, the owners of Crowned Eagle, have no such worries though with their four‐year‐old not only guaranteed to make the cut for Saturday’s showpiece event, but also having the form in...
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Syndicate Cinderella story at the heart of Royal Ascot

Published: 19th June 2018

It’s a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the seven‐year‐old, whose future hung in the balance only months ago when he developed an infection after a relatively routine veterinary procedure. Sir Robert Cheval...
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Syndicate underdogs taste Classic success

Published: 16th May 2018

But winning races seems to have always come relatively easy for the group of owners that make up the Pall Mall Partners. Since 2013, they have yet to own or lease a...
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First Dates on the Gallops – Meeting your horse for the very first time

Published: 4th April 2018

We caught up with Will Gatenby, a winner of a share in one of the successful and ever‐popular Racegoers Club Owners Group syndicates in a competition run by Great British Racing. Last week, he visited...
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Syndicate Stories – Cheltenham Festival

Published: 9th March 2018

At next week’s Cheltenham Festival, nearly 500 horses will line up in search of success. Only 28 of them will do enough to earn their owners the right to stand on the...
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Oli Bell – The Rainbow Hunter

Published: 25th January 2018

A photo of The Rainbow Hunter, a horse he co‐owned with three friends, jumping the final fence on his way to success in that contest in 2014, still hangs above the TV...
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Champagne Charlies

Published: 8th March 2017

Only hours before they did battle on the pitch last week as Luke Gale’s Castleford Tigers took on Danny McGuire’s Leeds Rhinos in one of the key early battles of the Super...