Paul Mason has become the latest addition to the training ranks in Oxfordshire.
The 48-year-old former bloodstock agent has set up his operation at Culworth Grounds Farm, Thorpe Mandeville, near Banbury.
He worked under his late father Ron, who in 1966 trained winners on consecutive days at Royal Ascot with Petite Path in the Queen Mary Stakes and Track Spare in the St James’s Palace Stakes.
Mason then spent time with several other trainers including Bryan Smart and Derek Haydn Jones.
Among the horses he purchased were Helvellyn, who won the Coventry Stakes.
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