Sir Mark Prescott reflects on his 50 years as a trainer in Newmarket.

This year will go down as one of the strangest in living memory. If in January you’d announced to owners and trainers that there would be no racing for two and a half months, it would have been met with widespread incredulity. But that was the situation in which British racing found itself in mid-March and, though the timing was a little off, it wasn’t too dissimilar to how things used to be for the predominantly Flat racing heartland of Newmarket before the advent of all-weather racing through the winter months.

One man who recalls the days with no racing between November and March is the town’s longest-standing trainer, Sir Mark Prescott, who has just completed his 50th season with a license. A stickler for good manners and formality with an extraordinary knowledge of racing’s history, Prescott is not, however, stuck in the past. Throughout his career he has embraced the technological advances that have helped him in his daily endeavors. His Heath House Stables at the foot of Warren Hill is both a shrine to the sport which has enthralled him for most of his life while at the same time being fully equipped with modern-day accoutrements. So, along with the skin of multiple champion sire St Simon, who was trained at Heath House in the 1880s by Mathew Dawson, can be found an equine swimming pool and treadmill.

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