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'It was very sad for me to move my horses. I'd been there for 36 years'

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There really is no place like home for Dianne Sayer, who has already marked her return to the place where she grew up with a Saturday winner.
She and her dozen horses are back at Stoneriggs, near Appleby in Cumbria, where her mother Evelyn Slack trained for many years before passing the licence on to son Ken, who died in 2019.
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