Newmarket

[Dingo Bingo]

I had always thought it was an extremely affluent area. I decided to have a flick through for places for sale and stumbled upon this. Not that I'd want to use the stables, maybe convert to small flats/air BnB type things. Not that I'd want to move back to the UK anytime soon either, was just having a snoop. Seems cheap for the size.

Check out this 4 bedroom barn conversion for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom barn conversion for sale in Exning, Newmarket, CB8 for £700,000. Marketed by Exquisite Home, Cambridge

www.rightmove.co.uk

 

[walsworth]

Something very odd there, zero missing? Maybe two zeros!

 

[Dingo Bingo]

I'm not so sure, Walsworth. I mean the land is a fair size, but unsure which area its in (maybe a rough part of town?). The house looks dated, most of it is just stables.

Here's newmarket in price order. So maybe seems fitting. No way it's £7M, maybe the missed a 1 off and it's £1.7M, but look at what you could get for that kind of price.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchLocation=Newmarket,+Suffolk&useLocationIdentifier=true&locationIdentifier=REGION^988&buy=For+sale&radius=0.0&_includeSSTC=on

 

[Dingo Bingo]

Last sold for £499K in 2006, so £700K+ seems legit.

I'm unsure if the large building along the back is part of it, either way, this is what I'd do with it..

 

[Dingo Bingo]

Just to have it inn-keeping. I'd maybe call the restaurant "The Stables" while keeping all the old beams exposed, and the bar perhaps named "The Dip".

OK, fantasy over, I'm not coming back to the UK, but it does seem a real bargain.

 

[maureen]

I went to Newmarket as part of my retirement present from work and was shocked at how tired and run down the place was; nothing like what I’d expected. The town centre felt rather seedy. When we went to Middleham for a holiday that was how I was expecting Newmarket to be. Mind you this was over a decade ago so things might have changed.

 

[Dingo Bingo]

I went to Newmarket as part of my retirement present from work and was shocked at how tired and run down the place was; nothing like what I’d expected. The town centre felt rather seedy. When we went to Middleham for a holiday that was how I was expecting Newmarket to be. Mind you this was over a decade ago so things might have changed.

I went for a walk around that area on google earth. The restaurant thing wouldn't work, nor would I want to live there. Estate agent trickery again.

 

[pawras]

I stayed over in Newmarket about 10yrs ago, take away horse racing and there's nowt special about the place at all & shite compared to Windsor town centre, but Ascot has very little in it's main street

 

[Ian_Davies]

As a student I basically "roughed it" when attending the Guineas meeting 1982-1984.

And subsequent sporadic visits have been round day trips.

The place had an initial magic for me back in 1982, but even as a student I could start to see plenty to dislike.

One dimensional racing town, nothing else to commend it and pop into, say, the local chinese restaurant in the evening and it was just full of attention-seeking loud stable lads BS-ing about how all the horses they did were all two stone better than they actually were and bitching about other people in both their own yards and other stables.

It was when I first realised that my love for racing and betting did not extend to most people in racing and betting and it was best all round if I kept the lot of them at arm's length.

43 years on, I remain supremely confident I made the right choice.

That said, I will never forget the short chat I had in 1982 with an old boy who worked for Bruce Hobbs - he gave me two winners (7/4 and 10/1) out of two and some excellent advice about the ground generally on both the Rowley Mile and the July Course, advice which has stood the test of time.

 

[Dingo Bingo]

I got some advice from an old guy once. He had a platform and a milk crate he'd kick around so he could get up and chalk the prices up in the local bookies. Reading the SL on the wall, he came up behind me and said in my left ear..."I'll give you some advice son...if the ground turns wet, don't bet". Then he winked at me and went back to his job.
I think of him everytime I back a loser on soft ground, which has been quite a bit over the last week or so.

 

[Ian_Davies]

The now late Mark Birch was in a pub in Beverley market town centre once, according to a friend who witnessed it.

Some annoying random as he was leaving said to Birch: "Give us a tip."

"Never try to get off a bus while it's still moving," Birch abrasively replied as he exited - I've got a feeling he'd used the line before.

 

[jinnyj]

It's Peter Fielden's old yard (then his daughter, Julia trained from there and possibly Gay Kellaway?). It's a pretty old fashioned yard and although there are some stables that look outwards, there are also some that are indoor and very claustrophobic with little air getting to them. I remember when I first went there (we kept a horse when Ray McGhin was training there but she caught a bug very quickly as germs seem to circulate easily there) we had a good look round and there were still the old stable lads room above the bit where you have put "Restaurant". They were literally small rooms with wooden slats for beds and the most basic of conditions....I was pretty appalled as I think they were in use by Peter.

Exning is OK as a village that adjoins Newmarket but to gain access to the Heath and gallops you have to go along a lane and under the A14 via a tunnel that can most definitely upset horses. The main house itself is tiny and I think the building at the back with the ? actually belongs to the neighbouring yard (Daryl Holland?)

Newmarket is an amazing place and a total one-off really. But the sad reality is that it is one of two halves - the extremely well-off and the rest most of whom are young and not well-off. Consequently the rich keep themselves to themselves and don't invest much in the town and like so many, the high street is dying. There are some plus points like you won't see horse pavements anywhere else nor the ability to change the traffic lights when sitting on a horse. Plus there are horses everywhere. It is an amazing spectacle to see them out being exercised and I would highly recommend a visit over sales time to see the yearlings getting sold for eye-watering sums in the Autumn plus a visit to the Horse Racing Museum and the National Stud.

 

[2017diary]

I got some advice from an old guy once. He had a platform and a milk crate he'd kick around so he could get up and chalk the prices up in the local bookies. Reading the SL on the wall, he came up behind me and said in my left ear..."I'll give you some advice son...if the ground turns wet, don't bet". Then he winked at me and went back to his job.
I think of him everytime I back a loser on soft ground, which has been quite a bit over the last week or so.

Wish I'd seen this yesterday