'For me, the National Stud needs to be able to look after itself - but it's also important that we're a beacon for the thoroughbred industry'
Tom Peacock visits the home of Stradivarius and many champions before him in our series about great studs
At the end of the Rowley Paddocks, a distant edge of the National Stud’s boundary, is a short section of running rails.
Very occasionally, the youngsters out grazing in those paddocks will get the chance to watch a bit of sport for free, as the view looks out across the July course.
It is understandably a favourite spot of the stud’s chief executive, Anna Kerr, who points out quite poetically that the horses can see their destiny here. Kind Of Blue, the young Group 1 sprinter in waiting bred for the Morris and Hopper families, is the latest of many to have made that leap.
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