With it’s ribbed green canopy like a giant snake poking above the hedgerows on the entrance to one of racing’s best known training centres, the latest edition to Lambourn’s landscape is certainly eye-catching.
It has also got plenty of people talking.
From a distance it might look more like a theme-park ride but the brains behind the innovative construction are hoping the only thrill-seekers that it attracts will be owners and trainers buying into the idea that the ‘Kurtsystem’ will revolutionise the training of racehorses.