We'll miss days like Saturday when owner-breeders have disappeared - and here's how racing can address their decline
A question to begin with: what do the first six winners on Newmarket's Cambridgeshire card have in common?
If you have guessed correctly, well done, you can continue your day with that superior feeling that comes with being a smarty pants. If the answer remains elusive, then let me provide it to you – each one of them represented an owner-breeder.
Naina, Wimbledon Hawkeye, Lake Victoria, Shadow Of Light, Liberty Lane and Saqqara Sands all raced in the colours of the people who conceived the ideas for the horses and helped bring them through their early years to achieve success on the racecourse.
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Published on inPeter Scargill
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