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Nick Townsend consults the turf’s top doc, Dr Richard Newland, about the ills afflicting British jumps racing

It’s nigh on a decade since Pineau’s De Re mastery of the Grand National fences saw his trainer Dr Richard Newland, a character as equally at home with a stethoscope as legging up a jockey into their saddle, hoisted aloft in the Aintree winner’s enclosure after the 11-year-old’s 25-1 triumph.
Though, in the aftermath he had vowed that his then dozen horses was “manageable” for an individual then running a 350-staff healthcare business, protesting that he trained horses “just for the...

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