At the Sales

Highgrove is certainly achieving results in the sale ring at the majors, consistently posting averages well ahead of the overall sale average.

“In the building industry I built every house the way I would have expected my own house to be built,” Gilbert said.

“At Highgrove every foal is bred as though we would like to keep it ourselves. We spend a lot of time assessing the type of foals our mares are producing and we put a lot of effort into selecting the stallions to suit them.

“Many hours are also spent studying pedigrees which will produce a horse we would want to race and so far this combination has been working very successfully.”