Win O’clock at Leicester Race
“At Leicester Race Course on 7th July saw ‘Win O’clock’ take another Win ridden by Thomas Greatrex and trained by Roger Charlton.
Win O’clock Held up in last, pushed along from 4f out, chased leader over 1f out, stayed on final furlong, led towards finish.
Bred at Kingwood Stud and Pre-Trained on the Kurtsystems , Win O’clock is showing consistent winning form in his first season giving us much hope for his future.”
Forbidden Planet who was fully pre-trained on Kurtsystems won his second race in 2019 for Kingwood Stud at Lingfield Park on January 19th. Only two weeks ago, on January 5th, Forbidden Planet won again under Richard Kingscote at Lingfield Park
Cosmogyral who was fully pre-trained at Kurtsystems won at Kempton Park Race on January 16th
Kingwood Stud is beyond proud of CATAN, OASIS DREAM’s two-years-old colt that has been a good evidence of Kurtsystem’s performance. After having been pre-trained in Kurtsystems for 9 months, he was mentally and physically advanced to go to his natural training regime with Roger Charlton at Beckhampton House.
CATAN had impressed many with his victory on his second entry at FFos Las on 5th of September.
It was no surprise to see that he has easily won again on 9th of October at Brighton.
PRINCESS Anne has unveiled a plaque to officially declare open the pioneering Kurtsystems racehorse technology.
The Princess Royal visited Kingwood Stud, Lambourn, last Thursday and was greeted by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, James Puxley.
She was then introduced to the inventor behind the monorail system – 69 year old Mehmet Kurt and his son Kaan.
Mr Kurt senior is one of Turkey’s leading industrialists and racehorse owners who owned the winners of the 1993 and 1999 Turkish Derby.
He bought Kingwood Stud in 2011.
Among the guests were jockeys, owners and trainers, such as Nicky Henderson from Seven Barrows and West Berkshire Council chairman Quentin Webb (Con. Bucklebury), who said during a previous visit: “Such an innovative idea can only benefit the horseracing industry.”
For the sake of this article pre-training will be considered to be the safe development of a young horse towards its first joining a trainer or returning from a break not enforced by
injury, as opposed to rehabilitation. The American racing industry has the perfect phrase for this: Legging Up.
While there has been a constant growth in the number of commercial pre-training yards in ‘Europe over the last 25 years to satisfy a growing demand for this service, this is something that has been a long-standing practice further afield, particularly in countries where there is stabling pressure at the racetrack or in metropolitan stables, not to mention numerous larger owners that have chosen to keep a greater part of the horse’s young career in their control by employing a farm trainer or establishing their own pre-training division.