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NOT A SOUL IN THE PARK

Rolf Johnson on the decline and fall of Kempton

Kempton Park track view

Four years ago I was told, categorically, by a prominent Jockey Club panjandrum that Kempton, begun 1878, was being sold and its history including memories of Arkle and Desert Orchid would not save it. Sixty-three years previous, Kempton’s sister course Hurst Park, not even a lazy crow flight across the Thames, closed – ‘developed’. Now Kempton is being touted for a similar burial. Kempton’s three hundred acres were ‘mined’ for gravel; its courses, notably the st...

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