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Staff Profile: Will Douglass
Our new staff profile features Will Douglass, who to many of you, will be a new face around Ed Dunlop Racing. Will joined us last December in his new role as Pupil Assistant and so far seems to be getting on very well!
Will Douglass
Will has always had an interest in horses and with school not really being his favourite subject, he looked at a more hands on approach to life.
‘My head master and matron at prep school had horses in training and was a huge influence on me. I had ponies from a young age and then started hunting. I loved being out all day jumping and galloping, I couldn’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing! I got my point to point licence out when I was 17 and had a few rides in the North at Corbridge and Alnwick.
After Will left school, he started working at New England Stud.
‘It was a great place to start, it was very hands on and I learnt a great deal. There is a lot to be said from starting on the ground and working up.’
A stint at James Eustace’s yard followed for Will, where he held the position of Pupil Assistant.
‘I really enjoyed this job and it was good to get my ground work done in a racing yard.’
Will then took some time out and travelled to Australia and New Zealand.
‘I went to New Zealand to break yearlings, which was amazing and then went onto Australia where I worked for David Hayes. He had a fantastic set up there and I worked with a great team of people. It was such a good experience to work with some of Australia’s best horses such as Miss Finland, who won four Group 1 races.’
On his return from Australia, Will had a brief spell working for Blandford Blodstock, firstly cataloguing and then as a runner at the Tattersalls Yearlings sales and then he joined the Ed Dunlop Racing team.
‘I’m enjoying it at Gainsborough Stables. It’s a new challenge and I like the variation that working in a larger yard brings, something new comes along to test you every day.’
Out of hours, Will enjoys watching his supported team Newcastle Falcons or taking it easy with a dose of Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear.
‘If I’m not working I like to go hunting or catch up with my brothers in London. I am lucky enough to have travelled quite a bit and have been to some amazing places. Taupo in New Zealand is one that stands out in particular. It has the biggest lake in the world, good fishing and breathtaking scenery. Also Courcheval, which is a skiing resort in the French Alps, the skiing there is fantastic and the views are amazing.’
So what does the future hold for Mr Douglass?
‘I am enjoying what I am doing at the moment and learning a lot which I hope will hold me in good stead for the future. I think Charlie Gordon-Watson has an amazing job and he is very good at it. Being a Bloodstock Agent is something that would be of great interest to me. Id love to go and work in America at some point and then maybe one day I will be fortunate enough to set up as a trainer myself. If I was not working in racing then I think I would have made a good Huntsman.’
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