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Sir Mark Prescott: educated, erudite, refreshingly eccentric – and eyeing Arc success with Alpinista
Unmissable interview with racing’s most renowned raconteur as he prepares for a visit to ParisLongchamp with his multiple G1-winning mare. Mind you, he’d rather win a British Classic, as Steve Dennis finds out
Did you hear the one about the two Englishmen in a car in Japan? No, it’s not a joke. Let Sir Mark Prescott, whose fund of tales and panache of delivery would give Scheherezade a run for her money, tell the story.
“I’d taken Alborada to the Japan Cup in 1999 but she went lame and we couldn’t run her,” he says. “So there we were in Tokyo, no plans. Then Julian Lloyd – he was one of [owner-breeder] Kirsten Rausing’s racing managers, and the most incredible ‘fixer’ – made one phone call and suddenly we were in a car with Eric Clapton on the way to his gig.”
The revelation hangs in the air, Prescott nursing the punchline gleefully, the hack on the other end of the line stunned into silence. Those who know Prescott may have never before heard him use the words ‘Eric Clapton’ and ‘gig’ in the same sentence – it is a cast-iron guarantee that the third Ba
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When we put your questions to Sir Mark Prescott, the master of Heath House
Published in the Racing Post on August 20, 2013
Will we ever see a horse repeat the performances of Spindrifter, who won 13 races as a two-year-old? How did you keep him sound and in good heart for so long a campaign?Graham Hudson
He was a tremendous horse, he made training look easy, and no horse will repeat what he did – or what Provideo and Timeless Times did for Bill O'Gorman a few years later – because the racing programme has changed. In those days [1980] there were lots of conditions races, especially ones for horses who hadn't won a race worth £2,500. I had to be clever and not win a big pot, but early that year I asked his owner Graeme Waters whether he'd like a crack at something like the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot or would rather win a lot of races. He said he'd rather win a lot of races. Spindrifter trained himself really, he was a very hardy horse but one of relatively limited ability and his campaign just showed what careful placing could do – I exploited what he was good at, which was the ability to handle firm ground and to run freqently. Five years earlier Nagwa had won 13 races for Barry Hills, and amazingly both Nagwa and Spindrifter were bred b