WELCOME TO bill ratcliffe racing

We moved to Hamilton Road, Newmarket on 1st April 2009.The move to Heyward Place has given us the best opportunity to get each horse to achieve its potential. The early signs are  promising with our first runner being a winner and we have had four winners in the first month. The facilities are excellent with a beautiful secure private yard accessed via electric gates and covered by CCTV.
We have modern spacious boxes, turnout paddocks, covered horsewalker, washdown room with solarium, starting stalls on site and of course direct access to the best gallops in the country.  
We have more boxes available and are looking to expand our team of horses.
We run a friendly professional yard which is focused on both results and enjoyment and our staff are experienced and focused on achieving the best for the owners.
We are ambitious and have set tougher targets for this year and we would welcome any prospective new owners to contact Bill to discuss or arrange a tour of the yard and facilities.
Please call Bill on 07767 745471. You can also Email Us

 

We run a friendly professional yard which is focused on both results and enjoyment and our staff are experienced and focused on achieving the best for the owners. We are ambitious and have set tougher targets for next year and we would welcome any prospective new owners to contact Bill to discuss or arrange a tour of the yard and facilities. Please call Bill on 07767 745471 or 01638 615440.

 

You can also Email Us

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Guto and Colorus cantering on Hamilton Hill, Newmarket

 

Trainer's Blog

The Year so far.....

 

Looking back over the year so far we have to be very pleased, as Gutos win at Southwell on 4th November was our 10th of the year and hopefully we can add to that tally before New Year. The season started well with Style Award landing her 4th win when she won by 5 lengths under Richard Hughes at Lingfield. In March Bel Cantor went on to win at Wolverhampton with Guto winning the following day at Southwell, both well ridden by Kelly Harrison. My Kaiser Chief then landed our first turf win of the season in April at Thirsk and then narrowly failed to follow up over course and distance a week later when he was 2nd after hanging across the track in the finish.
July yielded our first double when Bel Cantor and Eton Fable won at Pontefract. After winning the Class 3 - 6f Sky Bet Handcap  for the second year in succession Bel Cantor then went on to finish 2nd to Ayr Gold Cup favourite Valery Borzov in the Class 2 Betfred Sprint at Haydock under the promising apprentice Andrea Atzeni. Bel then went on to score our best career success to date when he easily won the Class 2 Ripon Cathedral City of the Dales Handicap in late August. He then went on to be placed 4th in the Ayr Silver Cup after interupted preparations due to another spell of the continued flooding problems we have had to endure on site at Bolton Hall.

 

 

 

 

After the double at Pontefract, Eton Fable went on to nearly fulfill one of my childhood ambitions when he was touched off in a photo at Chester after attempting to make all.
That was my best and worst day rolled into one as being born in Chester and having spent many a day racing there as a child with my father it has always been a dream to have a winner there, we will have to do that in 2009. Our prizemoney for the year has taken us over £125k to date and around 40% of our runners have finished in the first 4 which for a small but growing yard is very healthy.

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Winning connections after Etons Fables win at Pontefract

 

Bel Cantor winning the Class 2 Ripon Cathedral City of the dales Handicap on 30th August.

 

 

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My Kaiser Chief winning at Thirsk

 

During the year we have forged a good partnership with apprentice Kelly Harrison who has put work in with the horses at home and ridden many winners for us. The team at home have worked well under testing conditions and without the on site problems at Bolton Hall we would have achieved so much more. We would also like to thank our owners for thier continued support this year and we have been lucky to welcome some new owners to our team.