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Newspaper Article
Race of the Century still running at Ascot
2010
Overview
Back in Lambourn, he remains the village's most enduring character and its most ardent supporter. Racing Welfare have named one of their housing developments after him, which, he says, is a little embarrassing, and while he has Windsor House, the yard in which he started training back in 1960, on the market, he is not going anywhere fast. ''As JFK said, 'Ich bin ein Berliner'; well, Ich bin ein Lambourner. I am a Lambourner, I'll never leave,\" he said. He added: \"Before he went to the sales I'd seen [Grundy] at Overbury Stud as a yearling. He was blond and beautiful, which caught the eye, but more importantly he was the most marvellous mover. Forget Epsom, he'd have acted down a precipice. The King George took its toll though and finished them both. Bustino broke down and Grundy was beaten at York next time by Dahlia whom he had beaten comprehensively at Ascot. He'd had a hectic season [second in the Greenham and 2,000 Guineas before winning the Irish Guineas, Derby, Irish Derby and King George]. He came home very tired after Ascot but typical of him he was bouncing again within three days. But a trainer is generally the last person to know when a horse is over the top.\" Like many of the older generation [Peter Walwyn] still finds it hard to forgive Ascot for taking out the tree-shaded old parade rings to make way for the new grandstand under the cloak of 'progress'. His view that the new edifice is ''an enormous expanse of eff-all'' is a succinct description which will resonate with anyone who has ridden the escalator to the fourth floor and wondered why such a big building was needed to house so much air.
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