Weinfeld adds weight to Gosden's views on commercial breeding

Meon Valley Stud's Mark Weinfeld threw his weight behind John Gosden’s comments in Tuesday’s Racing Post that breeding for speed will be the ruin of racing.

Gosden warned that races such as Saturday’s Ladbroke St Leger are at risk from commercial breeding trends and that people are now breeding for sales instead of for racing.

It is a view that Weinfeld shares and his family’s Hampshire nursery has long been associated with top-class middle distance and staying horses through one of their foundation mares Reprocolor, ancestress of Kayf Tara and Opera House.