00:00Charlie Clover was making a career for himself in the world of inventing, but when his brother
00:07Tom Clover, who trains in Newmarket, needed an extra pair of hands, the bug for horse
00:12racing quickly caught on with Charlie. After spending numerous seasons with different trainers
00:17in America and in England, Charlie has now decided to set up on his own.
00:21My brother, predominantly, he started training about seven years ago. He rung me up one day
00:28when I was at an event at the time and said, I'm a bit short-staffed, would you come and
00:33ride out for me? I've started training. It was wintertime at the time for inventors and
00:39it was an easy thing to do, just down the road. I was 45 minutes away on the other side
00:41of the base at Edmonds and we just fell in love with it straight away. It was immediately
00:47infectious in terms of my business and the adrenaline rush just made so much more sense
00:52to me. I was taking the time, so it was sort of a steady run down the event and business
00:55and I went out racing almost immediately. It certainly wasn't wasted time in my opinion.
01:01It was a lot of horsemanship involved and gave you a very good grounding in horses in
01:06general. I certainly looked at a lot of animals and bought and sold as well before I came
01:11into racing, so I think it was time well spent. It was a nice way to start in any impressionism.
01:17I went from Tommy's to do a few pre-trainers, the breaking process with Richard Morgan Evans
01:22and been to George Peckham's as well. Then I went over to America to work with Christophe
01:27Clement, which was just an awesome, wonderful man. I spent a bit of time at White Birch Farm
01:33as well, from Nice, France. Big outfit there, doing a few breakers there as well. Then venturing
01:39back to England to work for Kevin van der Voyt, where I've been for the last three seasons.
01:44I think I was very lucky at Kevin's that the yards were split, so we had King's Yard
01:50edition as a secondary yard, which is where I was. I'd run that for the last two seasons
01:54before this one and it gave me a real taste of what it's like to have your own facility.
01:58Once you sort of had a taste of that, it was an obvious choice to move on to the next step
02:02and this was what we wanted to do.
02:04We've got a couple of older horses that are up and running. One's galloping this weekend
02:09doing his first piece of work, so we're hopefully three or four weeks off that all being well.
02:13Next move is hopefully licensing up in about two weeks' time. So 1st November, all being
02:19well, we'll be moving into Albert House. The plan is to start with around ten horses, so
02:24I've kind of got about six in pre-training as we speak. They're obviously out of sales
02:29now, so we're looking to pick up a few more horses from training the week after, which
02:33would have enough to build a little team and get going with.
02:36I mean, we'll take it one day at a time, but it'd be great to get a few under the table
02:41and try and get some winners across the board this winter and just build a team from there.
02:45But obviously, like anything in life, you want to be as good as you can and do your
02:49best, so we'll just build as much as we can over the next couple of years.
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