Hamiltons take homegrown story of National Hunt season to Cheltenham
12 Mar 2022
Greg Wood in Great Bavin
The Guardian
Ann and Ian Hamilton rack up winners from a Northumberland farm and now take Tommy’s Oscar to the Champion Hurdle
If Ann Hamilton were a commercial trainer, her base in Northumberland might be a little easier to find. It would just be a case of looking for a queue of people eager to send her a horse, and following it all the way to her front door.
As it is, even a taxi driver who has been working the area for the last 20 years has never been asked to find Great Bavington before. What is, by some measures, the most successful National Hunt stable in the country this season feels as if it is not so much on the path less travelled as at the end of a road to nowhere.