Ollie Fowlston

Senior auctioneer Ollie Fowlston has rejoined Tattersalls and will return to the rostrum at Park Paddocks for the Craven Breeze-up Sale, which takes place from April 14-16. Fowlston joined Tattersalls in 1998 and worked for the company for 25 years, before leaving to become managing director of Dullingham Park in 2023. An auctioneer since 1999, Fowlston was previously a senior member of the bloodstock team and played a key role in the development of the Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. His return will also see him undertake...

"The grey colours, there's a big plan behind all that. Eventually my daughter will take over. I'm doing this for my family when I'm no longer here." Those were the words of owner-breeder Steve Parkin in a TDN interview penned in September last year, revealing all about his ambition to stand stallions at Dullingham Park Stud, plus the succession plan which he hopes will guarantee the long-term future of a racing and bloodstock empire he's spent the last two decades building. Five months on and the wheels are now firmly...

Ollie Fowlston is leaving Tattersalls to join Steve Parkin's Clipper Group as managing director at Dullingham Park, the 90-acre stud based just outside Newmarket. Following 25 years at Tattersalls, Fowlston, whose auctioneering has led him to sell horses in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Jamaica and Dubai, will take up his new role in June on the completion of this season's yearling inspections.  Parkin, whose horses run in the all-grey silks of Clipper Logistics, said, "We are delighted that Ollie is coming to join the team. He brings a wealth of...