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Meet the miracle workers with just four horses but eyes on the biggest prizes
Andrew Dietz visits the in-form yard with a Champion Hurdle dark horse
The Hamilton team: Ian and Ann with work-riders Steph Bowey (left) and Laura Fenwick (right) and neighbour Bridie HaywoodCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)
Few road trips boost the spirits as much as travelling alongside Hadrian's Wall on a clear and crisp winter morning.
Pass the iconic Roman landmark in an easterly direction on the Military Road and a little further north you will find the remote village of Great Bavington, where something equally uplifting is taking place.
Here, two residents of these harsh rural lands of stock farming are working round the clock in all weathers to run a small but powerful team of racehorses.
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Published on 16 January 2022inInterviews
Last updated 11:27, 16 January 2022
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- 'All of us who ply our trade training horses are dreamers - to put so much into it you must have a dream'
- 'There was a moment of rage - but he's a magnificent horse and it suits me that he's passed under the radar'
- When Patrick Mullins met Jack Kennedy: 'You could say I've been lucky - they're just broken bones and they heal'
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