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Facilities
The training facilities are already complete and staff quarters nearing completion. The first thing the visitor notices, indeed all travellers on the M6 get a quick view too, is the five furlong gallop (1000m), with an all-weather Polytrack surface that enables us to work horses in most conditions.
There is a grass gallop alongside with hurdles and jumps available. From a flat start there is a climb of some 20m vertical over the last two furlongs (400m) before flattening at the top.
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Horses are housed in three American style barns giving a covered working area for staff with plenty of fresh air and space for 16 horses in each, all with an outside window.
There is a fenced and floodlit 50 x 100m schooling arena with an all-weather surface and jumps which can be used for loose schooling.
There is also a sand ring used for turning-out horses under supervision. They love to have a roll after work.
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There are two programmable 6-horse horse-walkers, each with sufficient width for horses to turn and repeat their exercise turning the opposite way.
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There are 20 fenced paddocks, 17 of them with field shelters, so that horses can be routinely turned out daily during training as well as when out of training.
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There are dedicated washing boxes and a weighing box for monitoring horses' progress.
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