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Chantilly the model as Jockey Club Estates ramps up biodiversity scheme on the Heath

New saplings and hedging set to transform Warren Hill and create a safer environment

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Newmarket Heath: enjoying annual off-seasonCredit: Edward Whitaker

We are in the midst of the season when it is customary to put up trees, and Jockey Club Estates has certainly not missed out this Christmas – planting no fewer than 17,000 new saplings as well as 8,000 metres of new hedging around Newmarket in recent weeks.

During the Newmarket ‘off season’ between the beginning of November and the end of January, the Jockey Club usually undertakes one project or another while there are fewer horses on the Heath, especially as most trainers now have their yearlings broken in elsewhere.

The latest winter activity, arguably the Club's most ambitious yet, has led to young trees and hedges springing up everywhere and is all part of a wider biodiversity scheme for which the Jockey Club receives government grants. Evidently, the idea is to make parts of the Heath similar to the training centre at Chantilly in France where trees and fences have largely replaced posts and railings.

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