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STEADFAST ON DOWNS

Richard Eagle with galloping tales from Epsom and Lambourn yards

Operatic Society (l), with Lester Piggott

When walking around the Downs above the suburban Epsom town centre one tends to accept that alongside the golf course with a view and beyond the historic stands of the Derby course, there are a plethora of gallops.
What isn’t widely known is that this area of equine exercise was nearly lost in the early 1980s.
Plans back then were to adopt the land for other purposes. There were a few locals who fought hard to maintain the Downs to retain the custom that had existed f...

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