The jockeys of the future are made right here in Yorkshire
“We have around 45-50 thoroughbreds at any one time and they all come on loan. Trainers will ring and say they have a horse that’s come to the end of its career on the track. We are told whether it may have been successful, or maybe its talents have been more limited than perhaps anticipated, but it’s a good horse. They give us an outline of it does this, that and the other, where its strengths lie, and that it might be suitable for our purposes for learners to learn about racehorses.
National Horseracing College The Stables, Rossington Hall Doncaster. Colonel Stephen Padgett OBE pictured with students and horses at the college Picture by Simon Hulme “We then find out a little more about it and it will usually come here on about a six-week trial to see if the horse is suited to our environment and ours is suited to the horse. The recommendations are generally sound and sometimes they stay with us for what can be a number of years.
“A lot of racehorses that come out of racing thrive in an environment like this because it’s entirely familiar to them, the routines, the nature of the work they do, people around them understand them and they understand the environment. What we are certainly not is a racehorse sanctuary. We are simulating a racehorse training environment and we need the horses that are here to be able to continue to do their job.
The National Horseracing College is part-funded by a contract with the horseracing industry and by a Government contract for training and educating 16-18 year olds, that when combined provide around 80 per cent of its needs. Stephen says the rest is found in a variety of formats and he is more than prepared to beat his chest and give his own personal feelings over the good that the college does and why it should be backed even more greatly.
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