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Article: Hard-working Bowring sets example for Maite.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1999
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IN THE best tradition of Sherwood Forest residents, Roy Bowring will be aiming for some wealth redistribution when First Maite bids to defy top weight of 10st in the William Hill Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon this afternoon.
Bowring admits to being "60 plus", but on a diet of hard work - and plenty of it - he can pass for 50 with little difficulty.
Born just down the road from his leafy Edwinstowe base, this quiet achiever has built up a string of 10 farms in the Nottingham area which, among other things, provides 2,500 tons of potatoes a year for ...