Where is ballydoyle stud

Marcus Jooste. Andrew Rosen. Owner of former Ballydoyle resident War Decree. John Halley. Maxwell Morris. Mr Frank Velin. Chantal Regalado Gonzalez. Prolific breeder of horses and owner of Epsom Oaks heroine Qualify.

HH Sheikh Al Thani. Mrs Doreen Tabor. Wife of Coolmore partner Michael and owner of former Ballydoyle resident Cenotaph. Louis Ronan. The original owner of Epsom Oaks Heroine Qualify. Al Shaqab Racing. He stuck his head out really well for me from the back of the last. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. Thomas Kelly September 28 AM.

Facebook Twitter Email. Sport Newsletter Get the best analysis and comment from our award-winning team of writers and columnists with our free newsletter. Tapes of each of the horses are held for a month to pick up any signs of unusual behaviour or poor health. Horses afflicted by loneliness or bad habits have mirrors installed on their stable-walls to give the impression of company.

During the summer, they are taken for daily swims and massage in the stable spa. Nothing is left to chance anywhere in Ballydoyle. On the gallops, replicas of two of racing's toughest stretches, the final straight at Ascot and the sharp left turn at Epsom's Tattenham Corner, have been created so that horses know exactly what to expect on the day of a big race. As soon as one batch of horses finishes training, an army of men gets to work on the gallops replacing the divots and smoothing the surface before the next group arrives.

The way those gallops are today took 50 years to create. When we came here 12 years ago, we were trying to learn from what Vincent did and then his son David. Then we put our own stamp on it to try and get it as close to perfect as you can. But it wasn't always like that. In the years running up to the closure of the rendering plant in , some of its star horses were struck by mysterious illnesses that sapped their energy and brought them to their knees. At the same time, local families found the plant's odour increasingly intolerable, causing frequent nausea and forcing them to stay indoors.

Nobody wanted to live here. When you are dealing with the most sensitive animals in the world, who take in 1, litres of air in their lungs a minute, even the slightest flaw in their environment can stop them from reaching their full potential.

That means if you put them under any pressure, the tiny capillaries in their lungs start to bleed. They'd come in from the gallops with blood pouring from their nostrils. It is so complicated. If you pulled it out and took it apart, it would cover eight tennis courts. It's a filtration system for everything going into their lungs, heart and blood, and that's what makes them super athletes. The slightest interference with that can be a disaster. The dirty smell went but we were left with a chemical odour instead.

When the wind would change, there was a sharpness in the air that wasn't natural.