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Comeback king a long way from the buffers after his super season
Lee Mottershead meets the Newmarket trainer fresh from a first Group 1 strike
Martyn Meade has regularly dipped his toes into the business of training racehorses. This time he dived in head first. In doing so, he has made a very big splash.
Last October the successful entrepreneur sent out the first Group winner of a stop-start training career that had delivered its first success way back in 1972. Twelve months on from that Pattern breakthrough, Meade broke his Group 1 duck thanks to Aclaim's victory in the Prix de la Foret. One afternoon earlier stablemate Dolphin Vista had sprung a 50-1 shock in the Cambridgeshire.
Meade, you will not be surprised to hear, has no plans to retire.
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