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The Graffards - hard graft paying off

IT HAS been an exciting start for dynamic couple, who met on Sheikh Mohammed’s inaugural Darley Flying Start programme. “If you told me when I was younger that things would turn out like this, it would have been adream come true,” Lisa-Jane says, wh…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 40

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Josef Váňa Living legend of the Velka Pardubicka

NOT FOR nothing is it the only annual sports event screened on the first national television channel, which is reserved for serious stuff. Neither the Olympics nor the ChampionsLeague final qualifies for such a privilege from Czech TV, not to mentio…

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Yasutoshi Ikee - aiming at Arc glory

BASED at Ritto Training Centre near Kyoto, Ikee currently occupies the top spot in the trainer’s championship by prize money and lies second in terms of winners. Now one of the starsof Japanese racing, it was only by chance that his family became in…

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Michael Figge - Stepping out into the big time

BY FAR the most important training centre in Germany is Cologne, but after that there is little between Hoppegarten (Berlin), Hanover, Iffezheim (Baden-Baden), and Munich. Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is one of the most attractive cities in Europ…

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All the King's horses - the regiment with a racing pedigree

THE King’s Royal Hussars pride themselves on their rich heritage, and its light-hearted, well- disciplined and professional approach has been their hallmark for years. With many of their ranksfilled with sons, brothers, and grandsons of former membe…

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The inner calm of Mikel Delzangles

I’D BE silly to say that I don’t get stressed. Of course I do but there’s no point making a big fuss about things,” he says over breakfast at a friend’s home in Newmarket ahead of Hermival’s engagementin that afternoon’s 2,000 Guineas. Of course Del…

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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 38

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(European Trainer - issue 37 - Spring 2012)

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Robert and Rodolphe Collet

COLLET senior was registering his first victory at the meeting since Last Tycoon’s win in the 1986 Kings Stand Stakes. For Collet junior,it was further indication that he is following fast in the footsteps of one of France’s most prominent trainers“…

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(European Trainer - issue 37 - Spring 2012)

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Lucy Wadham: a trainer with a dual purpose

with a band of around 25 horses, this is a yard that regularly punches aboveits weight and has been responsible for the Grade 1-winning hurdler United, along with talented individuals such as El Dancer and last season’s Imperial Cup winner Alarazi.“…

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(European Trainer - issue 36 - Winter 2011)

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Jean-Paul Gallorini: the true master in the art of success

At the end of last year, Gallorini announced that he would be scaling down his training operation, however the 68-year- old has no plans to retire yet. His Maisons- Laffitte base is currently home to the same number of horses.Born into a family that…

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(European Trainer - issue 36 - Winter 2011)

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Paul Deegan bright start, shining future

His grounding in the art of training racehorses is exemplary. “I grew up on a dairy farm and Dad was always into horses, keeping afew point-to-pointers and hunters,” Deegan says. “I always wanted to be a trainer and even though I was never sure I’d …

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(European Trainer - issue 35 - Autumn 2011)

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Niels Petersen - the Danish dynamo

goal for me to be champion for the first time, but I don’t want to take anything in advance. If I’m still ahead in October I think the chance will be good. Until then we have to work hard and keep the horses fit and ready for racing.”natural for me …

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(European Trainer - issue 35 - Autumn 2011)

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Zuzana Kubovičová - First Lady of Slovakian racing

RAINERS in Central Europe usually do not wear hats. Consequently, when you see a trainer wearing one in the paddock in Bratislava, Prague, Budapest, or Vienna, you have to be wary. That hat belongs to Zuzana Kubovičová, who has built a great reput…

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(European Trainer - issue 34 - Summer 2011)

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Norbert Sauer - happy with life as one of German racing’s elder statesmen

HE hails from Frankfurt; there was no family connection with racing but an uncle took him one day to Niederrad, the Frankfurt racecourse, and he immediately fell in love with the sport. He was apprenticed there to the celebrated Andreas Hecker, who …

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Ferdy Murphy - the leading National Hunt trainer's plan for the future of horseracing

HoWeVer, unlike some of racing’s other doom- mongers, Murphy is keen on action. Thankfully, he’s pretty keen on words too.Last November he wrote a letter to the Racing Post outlining proposals that, ifimplemented, could theoretically provide racing …

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(European Trainer - issue 33 - Spring 2011)

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Hans Adielsson - the Swedish trainer now ready to make his mark in England

GELDINGS make better racehorses than fillies and colts. This is not something I believe to be true – I am absolutely certain of it.”Hans Adielsson, 67 – champion trainer of thoroughbreds several times over in Sweden, where he has also been training …

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(European Trainer - issue 32 - Winter 2010)

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Endo Botti - from leading jockey to an up and coming trainer in Italy - part of the great Italian racing dynasty

HERE is an ambitious trainer in his thirties, familiar with the winner’s enclosures at major international Group 1 fixtures as far afield as Hong Kong as a jockey – thanks to the exploits of Ramonti and Electrocutionist – and determined to return to…

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(European Trainer - issue 32 - Winter 2010)

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Gerhard Schöningh - the white knight of Hoppegarten racecourse

THE racecourse at Hoppegarten, about 10 miles east of Berlin’s city centre, was built by the Union-Klub, an organisation based on the British Jockey Club whose members were Prussian aristocracy, landed gentry, and rich industrialists. The official o…

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(European Trainer - issue 31 - Autumn 2010)

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Butch Lehr - the Churchill Downs racetrack superintendent in profile

Downs is the most widely-recognized racetrack in the UnitedStates. With an arsenal of 135 years of history behind it, the Louisville, Kentucky, showpiece is the first stepping stone for any horse whose connections hope to achieve the ultimate in rac…

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(European Trainer - issue 31 - Autumn 2010)

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Jean-Claude Rouget, the leading French racehorse trainer, in profile

IN 2009 the floodgates opened and the handler sent out a barrage of top- class performers from his base in the South West of France to conquer the prestigious Paris prizes. After years ofknocking at the door and seeing favourites losing their unbeat…

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(European Trainer - issue 31 - Autumn 2010)