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Richard Newland: I'm not interested in box-fillers - I want horses who can win
Lewis Porteous meets a trainer with a prolific strike-rate and big plans
Only two jumps trainers based in Britain can boast a strike-rate beyond 30 per cent from more than 100 runners this season.
One has racked up five championships and more wins at the Cheltenham Festival than anyone else over the past 40 years, while the other is a former GP, who little more than a decade ago decided to make training racehorses his hobby.
The biggest difference between Nicky Henderson and Richard Newland, however, is the resources at their disposal. Henderson is fully loaded with 150 of the finest National Hunt stock money can buy and supported by a band of owners boasting pockets deeper than the Atlantic. Newland, in stark contrast, does things on a more modest scale.
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