Michael ‘Kipper’ Herrington does not come from a racing family, born in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire he grew up being a keen cricketer & sportsman representing Yorkshire at Cricket until the age of 15. When he left school at 16 weighing only 6 stone he went to the British Racing School in Newmarket having never sat on a horse! First job was as an apprentice with Richard Whitaker, where he had a
few rides on the flat. Followed by riding as a conditional for Mary Reveley, where he a good few rides & 5 winners. Michael went on to gain his HGV licence and work as a travelling head lad for David Nicholls, which included travelling to Hong Kong & Sweden with Group horses. Michael’s last position before taking out his trainers licence was as Travelling Head Lad followed by Assistant Trainer for Kevin Ryan. The yard has a full compliment of up to date training facilities that includes a 6 Bay Covered Monarch horse walker with rubber flooring, we have a sand based lunge pen which is very useful for breaking yearlings or getting on fresh horses after time off! We are very lucky to have the use of a 7 furlong woodchip gallop by kind permission of Kevin Ryan. The gallop is at the bottom of our driveway so is easily accessible. We have 80 plus acres of grassland which we can use to give the horses a change of scenery from the all weather gallop. There are several turnout paddocks which we use on a regular basis during the summer months.
