From the 90ft
tower keep there are views to Orford Ness, a 10- mile shingle spit, now a nature reserve.
"I will need a lot of luck, but as long as those horses such as Passage Of Time, Multidimensional and Phoenix
Tower keep sound and the three-year-olds like Twice Over and Kandahar Run materialise, there is a lot to look forward to."
The massive ruins of Henry II's 12th Century
tower keep, set within the earthworks of a Roman fort guarding the strategic Stainmore pass over the Pennines, is a subject which would have captured Turner's imagination.