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Yen Hall Farm Racing Club
We have designed our racing club, Yen Hall Farm Racing, so as to be able to give members all the fun and excitement of racehorse ownership but at a modest fixed fee.
We are keen that members have a lot of enjoyment and exceptional value for money. Although this has attracted experienced racehorse owners, it is also ideal for those who are thinking of becoming involved for the first time.
- Membership of Yen Hall Farm Racing Club is limited to 20 shares as opposed to some other well-known clubs that have a hundred or more. We want you to feel like an owner, not a number.
- In order to give members as much racing as possible, we put three horses into the club and select ones that offer variety between hurdling and chasing and we mix experienced handicappers with relatively untried horses that we believe could prove to be very exciting.
- Members pay a fixed fee of £360 a month. That covers all costs, including training fees, race entries, transport and jockey fees and there are no hidden extras.
- All owner’s prize money (adjusted for VAT) is divided between the 20 membership shares and is distributed to fully paid-up members at the end of the Yen Hall Farm Racing season (which runs from 1 September to 31 May).
- Members are kept fully informed and are encouraged to visit the yard at any time by arrangement and to watch the horses school and work on the gallops.
- The horses will run in the exclusive and specially designed YHF Racing colours – except in point to point races
- Owners’ badges are available for all members to come and watch the horses run at race meetings subject to availability.
The horses selected to run for YHFR in the 2025-2026 are:
OUR HORSES
The Wise Traveller
The Wise Traveller (aka “Sam”) is a good-looking nine year old gelding by Getaway out of a Beneficial mare. He has started the 2025/26 season of YHFR by winning at Plumpton on 21 September, his third win in his last four starts – and he won at 25/1, ridden by our conditional, Jamie Gambin. Sam is a lovely individual with a great attitude and is an excellent jumper. He should give YHFR members plenty to cheer about this season!
Fourtowns
Fourtowns, the newest recruit to Yen Hall Farm Racing, is a 6 year old bay gelding by Affinisea (IRE) out of Blue Epona (IRE). We bought him out of Ben Pauling’s yard during the Spring of 2025. He has made an excellent start for YHFR, winning his seasonal debut at Fontwell on 22 September. Ridden by James Best, he settled nicely and travelled really well during the 2 mile race, coming through stylishly to lead over the final obstacle and winning by some two lengths. This was his first win from fifteen starts but let’s hope that their are plenty more wins to come. He is clearly enjoying life at the yard and he shows every prospect of jumping steeplechase fences in time which adds to his versatility. He is an exciting addition to the team.
Flamelco
Flamelco (aka “Flame”) is a 7 year old bay gelding by Falco out of Meldown. He joined our yard in late Spring 2024 and first ran for YHFR in the 2024/25 season, running 11 times, winning 3 and being placed another 6 times. Flame is an exciting 2 mile chaser, a nice balance with Sam who loves to run in 3 mile plus hurdle races and Fourtowns who is currently a 2 mile hurdler but may well also go chasing.
TERMS
In addition to the horses named above, I am keen that members enjoy plenty of racing and so, from time to time, I may decide to arrange for another horse to run as a “bonus run” for the Yen Hall Farm Racing Club. Although any horse doing so will not run in the Yen Hall Farm Racing Club colours, we treat it as a Yen Hall Farm Racing Club race and any owners’ prize money won will go into the member’s prize fund.
For those that like small print clauses, you will be glad to know that, even though I can’t guarantee that the Yen Hall Farm Racing Club horses will remain sound, it would be my intention to replace any horse that is unable to run for an extended period or, one that is sold at auction or claimed under the terms of any selling or claiming race. If I “buy in” one of the horses at auction (ie if it wins a selling race and I purchase it back to stay in the club), the prize money won in that race may be used to cover the purchase price so that only any net profit is available to be distributed to the members of the Yen Hall Farm Racing Club.
Again, for the benefit of lawyers and others who like to focus on the details, the horses involved in the Racing Club are technically leased to Yen Hall Farm Racing Club for the club’s season and, at the end of the season, will continue to be owned by me. The good news is that none of the members of YHF Racing have any liability to me or to anyone else in respect of the horses (other than payment of the agreed fee of £360 a month) which means no vets fees among other things. The membership fee must be paid up in full at the outset or may be paid by direct debit in monthly instalments. Anyone who doesn’t pay up in full will not be entitled to share in any benefits – and more notably unable to receive their share of owner’s prize money when it is distributed at the end of the Yen Hall Farm Racing Club season.
As you will appreciate, this is a private arrangement and membership of YHF Racing is not transferable and members must agree that it is clearly for entertainment and is not an investment or an arrangment with a view to profit.
As you would expect, the horses will be trained by me and I shall be responsible for all decisions relating to the horses.