'We're a bit upset that we have to go this way' - Newmarket pre-training operation to close
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Classic-winning trainer Alan McCabe has been forced to close the doors on his Newmarket pre-training business six years after setting it up at Egerton Stud, close to the town's July course.
McCabe trained more than 300 winners, including German 2,000 Guineas and multiple Group winner Caspar Netscher, during his ten-year spell with a licence, when he mainly trained out of Averham Park in Newark.
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