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Saturday, 16 September 2017

KING OF HIS CASTLE, A VIEW OF ED WALKERS KINGSDOWN STABLES

Kingsdown Estate Gallops

After the deluge of Fontwell park, getting well and truly soaked, a few days of yard work preparing for the new point to point season, yes you guessed. Getting soaked.
It was a pleasure to get blue skies and sunshine for a visit to the yard of Ed Walkers at Kingsdown house Lambourn, with the West Berkshire racing club.
A good few years since my foot steeped over the threshold of this yard,also a good few pounds lighter and years younger when i was a budding amateur jockey working in the summer for Charlie Nelson.

The yard having a freshen up after that with trainers such as Jamie Osborne and Mick channon having working out of the gates it is now taken over with a trainer in his seventh year.
Only coming to Lambourn in 2016 after a successful spell in Newmarket were he trained out of a number of yards one of them the legendary stables of Warren Place, where many of the greats were trained by the late great Sir Henry Cecil.

View of the top of the historic main yard at Kingsdown House

Ed not able to be with us, a trip to America for the sales, left his wife to take us to the gallops and around the yard. The gallops on the door step are a god send, though the trainer not having the sole use of the facilities, the Jockey club estates take care of these superb gallops.
Here are a few images of the second lots journey.

We even get to look at a horses eye view up the gallops

Two horses we spoke about in earlier blogs with the trainer having a double Romanor and Simpson both winning two good races at Royal Windsor, were seen in a more relaxed state in their boxes. No new information on what next for these two, but it was good to follow up.