Buck Jones

Buck Jones

has spent a lifetime in racing, starting as an apprentice in Newmarket at the age of 15. During his career as a jockey, Buck rode 100 winners on both the flat & over jumps, including having 4 rides in the Grand National.

Kim at Surrey HackingKim

took over the management of Surrey Hacking in the summer of 2002 and became Buck’s Assistant Trainer in January 2003, a position she held until Brook Farm sent out it’s final runner in August 2008. Kim, who lives on the farm, has been involved in every aspect of making Brook Farm Stud and Surrey Hacking the success that it is today.

 

is set in 85 acres of rolling hills. Buck Jones has lived here for over 35 years and until the end of 2008 trained both Flat and National Hunt racehorses here. The farm still has its own well maintained private grass gallops. Before Buck moved in the farm had been run as a dairy farm and the house and office where once one of the cattle’s barns.

Surrey Hacking has been established for over 20 years and has been BHS approved since 2002. We usually have between 10 and 12 ponies, with most of our ponies being brought as yearlings and broken in by ourselves.

Since 2004, we have been breeding Thoroughbreds at Brook Farm and this is something we plan to expand further in the future. Our first foal was a filly from one of our successful race mares, who herself went on to race for us for 3 seasons. We now have a small band of broodmares and although we sell most of our yearlings at the sales, we do retain some of the fillies with the view of putting them in training and hopefully one day retiring them to the paddocks with their dams.

With so many racehorses passing through Brook Farm over the years, it not surprising that a few have ended up staying for good! With 85 acres of well drained pasture it is the ideal place for an older horse to spend his retirement or for others to rest after a long season or recover from injury.