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Just watched video on Jockey Club Estates website promoting Newmarket as a great place to train a racehorse, which of course it is. However the film, narrated by Nick Luck, states that the mighty Eclipse was a Newmarket horse "through and through". This is just wrong. He was foaled, trained and stood as a stallion in Surrey, mostly in the Epsom ares, eventually dying in Egdware. He raced at Newmarket 4 times in 1770, but this is his only connection to the town.
It is sad that a racing establishment body like Jockey Club Estates try to use racing’s history and heritage to their own advantage and make such a major error when trying to market Newmarket around the world.Eclipse was actually barred from the majority of races at Newmarket beause entry was restricted to horses owned by Jockey Club members.
His owner was an ‘upstart’ lacking the necessary social background to be admitted to membership. By most accounts, it simply added to his pleasure in winning races elsewhere and taking money off the other owners in bets.
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