Robin Oakley

The lessons of Newmarket

It’s the meeting we look to for clues about the contenders for next year’s Classics

William Buick riding Lezoo to victory in the Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket. [Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images] 
issue 01 October 2022

The swallows who nest yearly in my garage have agreed that ‘that’s enough baby-making for this year’, and started their 6,000-mile trip to the southern Sahara. Between burps, many thousands of wildebeeste are currently sniffing the Kenyan air and nudging each other south for new shoots on the grassy plains of the Serengeti.

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