It looks like a theme park ride, whizzing around a track.

But the KurtSystem is no roller coaster. There are no surprise turns or sudden changes of speed. And the horses inside the cars seem entirely unfazed by the ‘ride’.

The machine is the brainchild of Turkish industrialist and racing enthusiast Mehmet Kurt, who has spent $50 million developing it over the past 20 years.

He designed the system out of frustration after seeing many promising young horses being pushed too hard, too soon.

“A lot of expensive horses, quickly break, break, break. Never training,” he said.

“I think, ‘I have to change the system’.”

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The Kurtsystem rail technology allows up to 10 horses to be exercised simultaneously, without riders 

OVER the past 20 years Mehmet Kurt, one of Turkey’s leading industrialists and entrepreneurs, has been developing a new horse training system that is designed to aid the pre-training of young racehorses before they enter a traditional training regime.

His innovation, Kurtsystem, allows up to 10 horses to be exercised simultaneously, without riders, while also allowing customised electronic fitness monitoring equipment to measure and record the physiology of each horse during exercise.

The Kurtsystem prototype was installed on Kurt’s farm in Turkey in the early 2000s and has been continually improved and developed for the last decade.

The latest version of the Kurtsystem, which is estimated to have cost £20m, has been installed at Kingwood Stud in Lambourn and was unveiled at the end of last month.

“It is hard to disagree with Newbury MP Richard Benyon who described the project as a huge vote of confidence in the village”

Racing has a reputation for being a conservative sport and change is not always welcomed, so it was interesting to see the latest innovation unveiled at Kingwood Stud in Lambourn recently.

Located close to Owen Burrows’ Kingwood House operation, Kurtsystems is the brainchild of Turkish businessman Mehmet Kurt, who has interests in the property, construction, textile and agricultural sectors, but is also a man of the turf having won his country’s Derby twice as an owner.

He first pioneered the technology in his homeland 25 years ago in an attempt to reduce the injuries his horses suffered in the early stages of their careers.

Forget the jockey or the owner, the next racecourse winner could be trained by a machine. A mile-long loop powered by monorail and designed by a Turkish tycoon is about to revolutionise how horses are trained.

The £20 million device at the 165-acre Kingwood Stud in Lambourn, Berkshire, will put young horses through their paces with the promise of eliminating human error and avoiding injury.

The machine, which is the brainchild of Mehmet Kurt, 70, one of Turkey’s leading industrialists, takes up to ten horses at varying speeds from a trot to a 30mph canter around the all-weather surface. It will soon be open to trainers.

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.

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Young racehorses are being put through their paces in Berkshire, but it’s not jockeys who are doing the training, instead it’s a machine designed by rollercoaster engineers.

While the Kurtsystem may look like something from a theme-park, at £20 million it is more than just a bit of fun and is designed to eliminate jockeys’ human error from the pre-training of racehorses

A racehorse owner has devised a bespoke pre-training system to help prevent injury to his runners when they move into full training.

Mehmet Kurt, whose silks have been carried to success in two Turkish Derbys, developed a prototype on his farm in Southern Turkey, where over 1,000 thoroughbreds were trialled on the system.

The chosen site for the ‘Kurtsystem’ is adjacent to Kingwood Stud in Lambourn, which is owned by Mr Kurt and used to be the former training residence of the late John Hills.

Kurt preferred this location over Newmarket owing to his love of the valley and its  proximity to Heathrow Airport.

Tony Lodge, advisor to Mr Kurt, said: “It’s extraordinary, it’s a mile round like Chester – a huge circuit.

Contractor faces once-in-a-lifetime challenge to deliver a futuristic scheme that could revolutionise UK racehorse training.

Scheme: Kingwood Stud Equine Training Track
Client: Kurt Systems UK
Architect: Sutton Griffin, part of Carter Jonas
Main contractor: Raymond Brown
Drive cabin/running gear supplier: Mack Rides
Horse cars supplier: Revolve Technologies
Contract value:£4.9m
Overall development value:£10m
Start date: October 2015
Completion date: Q1 2017

For those with an interest in horseracing, the area of west Berkshire around the pretty village of Lambourn is revered as one of the country’s main centres for thoroughbred training.

Labelled ‘The Valley of the Racehorse’, there are more than 1,500 stables in the area and almost everyone in the village is involved in racing in one way or another.

The Kingwood Stud, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Kurt, is situated just outside
Lambourn and is an enterprise typical to the area.

Mark Souster meets man behind the new monorail that could change the way young
racehorses are trained

Rising from the earth on the edge of Lambourn is an edifice, which at first glance bears a
passing resemblance to a rollercoaster. It snakes through a one-mile swathe of the 165-acre
Kingwood Stud, the scars of its construction still evident on the land.
But far from being an object for amusement, it is a deadly serious attempt by a Turkish
multimillionaire to revolutionise the way in which young horses are prepared for training. It
is a £20 million hunch that its inventor and founder hopes will prove to be his legacy to
racing. And it will be ready for use from next month.

The new monorail training system is under construction in Lambourn. Construction has begun on a £20 million monorail racehorse training system at Kingwood Stud in the British racing centre of Lambourn. The “Kurtsystem” training innovation is the brainchild of Turkish industrialist Mehmet Kurt, who bought the stud in 2011.