Team: Paul Cole  
     
  Paul Cole is one of Britain’s most successful trainers, winning the highest performance races, Classics, Group races and handicaps.

Paul was Champion Trainer in England 1991 and has won the Champion European Trainers 4 times and holds European record for the most prize money won with one horse, Snurge.

Royal Ascot is one of Whatcombe’s favourite meetings, having had four winners in one week.

Paul is one of the top trainers on the list for the most winners at the meeting and has won the Coventry Stakes, Jersey Stakes, Chesham Stakes Windsor Castle Stakes, Norfolk Stakes Hardwicke Stakes, Wokingham Stakes, Queen Mary Ascot Stakes, and Queen Alexandra Stakes.

 
             
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  Famous Wins  
     
 

GREAT BRITAIN        
             
 
Ascot Gold Cup Mr Dinos
Cheveley Park Stakes Pass the Peace
Derby Generous
Dewhurst Stakes Generous
Fillies' Mile Culture Vulture
King George VI &
Queen Elizabeth Stakes		 Generous
Lockinge Stakes Broken Hearted
Nassau Stakes Ruby Tiger
St. Leger Snurge
Sun Chariot Stakes Lady in Waiting
Yorkshire Oaks Bint Pasha
       
             
 

CANADA        
             
 
Canadian International Stakes Snurge
       
             
 

FRANCE        
             
 
Poule d'Essai des Pouliches Culture Vulture
Prix de la Forêt Sarab
Prix d'Ispahan Zoman
Prix Marcel Boussac Culture Vulture
Prix Royal-Oak Mr Dinos
Prix de la Salamandre John de Coombe
Prix Vermeille Bint Pasha
       
             
 

GERMANY        
             
 
Grosser Preis von Berlin Ibn Bey
Preis von Europa Ibn Bey
       
             
 

IRELAND        
             
 

Irish Derby

 Generous
Irish Oaks Knight's Baroness
Irish St. Leger Ibn Bey, Strategic Choice
Pretty Polly Stakes Bint Pasha, Ruby Tiger
Tattersalls Gold Cup Zoman
       
             
 

ITALY        
             
 
Derby Italiano Zaizoom, Time Star
Gran Criterium Torrismondo
Gran Premio d'Italia Posidonas
Gran Premio di Milano Snurge, Strategic Choice
Oaks d'Italia Bright Generation
Premio Lydia Tesio Ruby Tiger
Premio Presidente della Repubblica Great Palm
       
             
 

USA        
             
 
Washington, D.C. International Stakes Zoman
       
           
 
  Whatcombe's History
 
 

The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England from Normandy, France, in 1066. The first draft of the Domesday Book was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the Scottish border (marked by the rivers Ribble and Tees at the time).

  
     
  Whatcome was recorded as a medieval village. It is a mile or so south east from Fawley Manor. Saxon remains were found here when in the 1930s a grave was dug for Blandford, probably the most famous stallion of his day. The present house incorporates parts of the old Norman church which, like the original manor house, has long since fallen into ruin.
 
It is said that stones from this church were taken to build the chantry chapel at Lambourn. Another well known tradition has it that the bells were stolen from Whatcombe’s church and were surreptitiously melted down, so that they could not be traced, and were then recast to provide bells for East Garston church. Local legend maintains that Whatcombe was also at one time a monastery and that a secret passageway linked it to the Manor at South Fawley Many generations of children have searched for the priest’s hole and the secret staircase that would lead them down to this underground escape route.
 
 
Whatever its origin, in the present century Whatcombe has become fam¬ous as a racing stable, first under R. C. Dawson, later under Arthur Budgett and now Paul Cole. Several Derby winners have been trained on nearby Woolley Downs, one of the best training gallops in the country, known both for the superlative quality of its turf and for its contours which closely resemble those of Tattenham Corner.  
 
 
  At the junction of the South Fawley road and the A338, there is a wooded and waterlogged area where used to stand three famous elms known as Adam and Eve and the Serpent. When one succumbed to Dutch elm disease a decade or more ago they said it must be the serpent. Now alas Adam and Eve have also left this Berkshire Eden.