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In the mid seventies John Bloomfield an American (I believe) entrepeneur bought the estate from whom I do not know.
My father had just been employed as a third trainer to David Robinson having been head lad to Michael Jarvis for two years.

When Labour won the election, Robinson shrank his operation to just Michael Jarvis, Paul Davey went back up north to train and my father went to Manton as Assistant Trainer to George Henry Peter-Hoblyn, there were big plans at the time to build a racing empire, unfortunately the up and coming trainer was very much out of his depth, the most succesfull spell coming after a three month winter holiday for Peter-Hoblyn when my father trained for him and won the Lincoln with Southwark Star (33-1). And a top sprint at long odds a couple of days earlier, in fact the Sporting Life picked up upturn in form at Manton and said to have a look at Southark Star for the race (front page).

Glad to be of help..

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