About Us
Pinnacle Racing are well established racehorse managers specialising in small and friendly racing partnerships and Corporate ownership. With our racing and bloodstock businesses we have around £1,000,000 worth of horses under our management and from our proven successful track record you have the security of knowing you are dealing with a professional and reputable business. That is important for you the owner - there are plenty of new partnerships set up each year, all based on lots of promises and dreams. Promises come cheap and they are seldom fulfilled, in fact most new partnerships disappear within a very short time.
We do not purchase cheap speculative horses and 'oversell' them to prospective owners. The results are there for all to see with two year old runners at the last three Royal Ascot meetings, in the winners enclosure twice, and winning the Listed Chesham Stakes with 'Maze'.
It is not only with 2yo's that we have great success. Last season, 2007, saw Aegean Dancer, a five year old, win the Scottish Sprint Cup a prestigious £50,000 race.
Pinnacle Racing is now in its ninth year and has gone from strength to strength - from just two horses when we started to fifteen in 2008. You will have seen Pinnacle partnership horses running from Newmarket to Scotland and from Yorkshire to Newbury, and indeed abroad. We will not always get it right, no one can, but it is seldom they will be found in lower class races - they are up there running, and winning against the best.
Of course with quality horses you need quality jockeys and recent ones to have ridden for us include Philip Robinson, Jamie Spencer, Royston Ffrench, Kevin Darley, Ted Durcan, Robert Winston and Pat Smullen.
Things to be considered when purchasing a share in a horse include:
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Partnership managers and trainers track record - promises for the future come cheap!
Look for a comprehensive and fair partnership agreement
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Horses owned and registered to the partnership not the Company, if not you lose your horse if the Company fails
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The same applies to income earned by the horse. It should be held in a partnership account
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Are all horses vetted and scoped prior to purchase
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Are the horses insured
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Are all costs covered, for example unlimited vets bills
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Is stable visiting unlimited - if not this can be very inconvenient for owners
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Is there accommodation at the stables where you can meet fellow owners
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Visit the stables and meet fellow owners, the trainer and staff before you buy
Our success is due, we believe, to offering the best quality service in racing and the honesty and loyalty we show to our owners.
All owners with us are kept fully informed of news on their horse, and indeed the yard in general, through regular e-mail, newsletters and telephone calls. As an owner you can visit the yard whenever you wish and our highly popular social weekends enable you to meet your fellow owners in a relaxed atmosphere.
We are obviously doing something right as most of our current business comes from existing owners purchasing more shares or indeed deciding to purchase whole horses managed by us.
Another major ingredient to our success has been Bryan Smart and his wife Vicky - they are 100% committed to Pinnacle and enjoy seeing such an enthusiastic group of owners at the yard and at the races. They have supplied Pinnacle owners with a dedicated owner's lounge where you can relax, chat with Bryan, and of course watch recordings of your horses winning races.
In 2007 we continued to build on what had been established before and enjoyed yet another record year for prize money for the owners.
