Almighty stink hits racing HQ Newmarket as poo crisis leaves worried trainers fearing for their jobs
RACING HQ Newmarket has been hit by a poo crisis – with trainers fearing the almighty stink could cost them their jobs.
Trainers who make millions every year have been forced to muck out their plush stables themselves after a local manure recycling business stopped trading.
Trainer Kelleway said the poo situation in Newmarket – home to the prestigious 1000 and 2000 Guineas – could put her out of businessRex Features
One trainer with no land to spread the muck on said the development could put her out of business.
Some 25,000 tonnes of waste needs to be shifted from the Newmarket stables and studs every year.
But the job has been made neigh-on impossible after the Racing Post reported local Cambridge firm Alwyn Moss was shutting up shop.
Trainers are rushing to find another way to get rid of the stable bedding, with the only other company in nearby Bury St Edmunds inundated with calls.
One of those fearing for the future with an overload of poop is Gay Kelleway.
She said her Queen Alexandra Stables – named after her win in the Royal Ascot race of the same name – could go under without help.
Kelleway told the Racing Post: “We need muck lorries to shift our muck heap as we’ve no land to spread it on and I don’t know what we’re going to do.
“This could put me out of business potentially.”
Her fellow trainer Marco Botti, a multiple Group-winning handler with prize money of over £500,000 this year, is also in a sticky situation.
He is yet to find another supplier who can remove the waste.
Botti told the Racing Post: “Who could imagine this was going to happen in such a short space of time?
“We’ve heard before that he was giving up but it never happened.”
Meanwhile, the situation could not be more different barely three miles from Kelleway as billionaires gather for the Book 1 Tattersalls sale.
One of the biggest days in the calendar for owners, millions of pounds get splashed on the top thoroughbreds destined – their purchasers hope – for greatness.
Among those in attendance on Tuesday is Sheikh Mohammed.
The Ruler of Dubai and Godolphin supremo won a bidding war that stretched to around £1million to secure a colt by Frankel.
The three-day sale saw more than £125m swap hands last year.
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