00:00Training partnerships are becoming the norm across Europe and one of the most recent ones to be announced was that of Dr. Richard Newland with Jamie Insull.
00:08What is slightly unique about this partnership is that Insull has been brought on to develop a yard of flat horses alongside Dr. Newland's existing National Hunt Division.
00:17Jamie Insull tells us how the opportunity arose.
00:21My family go back in racing for many years. My granddad was a flat jockey on the Curragh and then he trained for a number of years.
00:31My grandmother makes the racing colours in Ireland. She's been doing it for nearly 45, 50 years now.
00:38I grew up in Essex away from racing but when I was sort of 15 I started really getting involved.
00:45Went on my summer holidays to Paul Webber's. That's where I really sort of learned the basics and from then I was hooked.
00:54Used to drive up to Newmarket before school. Missed a couple of lessons early on and then when I was 18 I left school and went to work for Nigel of Tristan Davis.
01:04So very much from the beginning I wanted to be a jump jockey.
01:10That was the route that I was taking and then I left and went to Alan King's.
01:15So I rode for Alan for a few years and it was actually Alan that said to me, I think you'll be better suited to turn your career to training.
01:25So from then on I sort of followed the training route and was pupil assistant to Alan and then decided to get some experience in a flat racing yard.
01:36So left Alan's and went to Charlie Hill's. Came there at a really good time. Batash was just starting to get in his prime so multiple group one winner.
01:49He was champion sprinter of the year. We also had Phoenix of Spain, won the obviously Irish Classic in the 2000 Guineas.
01:58Involved in a lot of good horses as well, such as Equilateral, Cardem, two horses that I rode every day.
02:05Was lucky enough to accompany them to Dubai. Also took Equilateral to the Breeders' Cup but he didn't run but it was a good trip.
02:13So yeah, luckily to have managed a really good group of horses and a really nice yard.
02:20This winter I'm setting up with Dr Richard Newland who's on his own right, he's an established jump trainer.
02:27He's been around for 17 years now. He's won the Grand National, he's had Cheltenham Festival winners.
02:33Four years ago he built a purpose built yard, 62 boxes, six furlong gallop, two furlong sand gallop, state of the art facility.
02:45And he's expanded his jump operation and I think March time we got into contact, talking about maybe expanding the business.
02:54And over the summer, after a few meetings, he thought it was right that he would take someone in to run a flat side of the operation.
03:04And I don't think it's ever been done before. So the plan is we'll be on the dual license for December ready for the 2024 season.
03:11So hopefully first runners could be this side of the new year but January will hopefully hit the ground running.
03:18So we're looking to purchase a few horses from the horse and training sale.
03:21I think it's definitely got people talking and at the moment we're just trying to build a team of yearlings up and sell them.
03:29It's an amazing opportunity. Like I said, it's an absolute dream of mine to train.
03:35To do it on my own would have been very difficult. It's a very hard industry to start up in unless you've got multi millions of pounds.
03:45But Dr Richard Newland, he's a great businessman and he has set up an amazing facility.
03:53And he's just as passionate as I am about the new process.
03:58I think everyone that's already come to the yard has commented on our enthusiasm and hunger.
04:05So hopefully we can build a really nice team together and have a lot of success.
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