Nick Townsend talks to one of Britain’s newest yard owners, Alice Haynes

For many, the timing would scarcely have been considered propitious. Without the advantage of being a son or daughter of a notable training dynasty, you’d have needed to have been a special kind of character to establish a new stables mid-Covid.And, in Newmarket, too; a town scarcely deficient in talented, hugely experienced practitioners of the training art.
But the sanguine Alice Haynes is endowed with a powerful desire to succeed in this most competitive of industries and towns, having assimilated expertise un...