'This is the hardest place in the world to justify having a horse in training'

When James Eustace handed the keys to Park Lodge Stables to his eldest son Harry last year, it would have been reasonable to anticipate that little would change at the family-run yard in the heart of Newmarket.

Eustace snr took the reins at Park Lodge in 1989, a year after his son was born, so Harry knows the stable's tried-and-trusted routine better than most.

However, the new custodian did not spend time with Lee Freedman and Peter Snowden in Australia, Christophe Clement in the United States and Chris Wall, Jeremy Noseda and William Haggas in Newmarket to then come home and play it safe. He is far more ambitious than that and has already stamped his own brand of training at a yard steeped in turf history as the former home to trainers Sir Jack Jarvis and Ron Sheather, as well as champion thoroughbreds Blue Peter and Chief Singer.