Newmarket

and the power and vulnerability of specialness

This statue, sculpted in 1961 by John Skeaping, stands outside the Jockey Club on Newmarket high street. Newmarket is a place with a dual identity, a provincial East Anglian town that is also the centre of a billion-dollar global industry, the home of horse racing and the thoroughbred. Hyperion, a lifelong inhabitant of the town, winner of the 1933 Epso…