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Ian Balding

British racehorse trainer · United Kingdom · On the map · Lived 1938 to 2026 · aged 87

Ian Anthony Balding was a British racehorse trainer. He was the son of the polo player and racehorse trainer Gerald Matthews Balding and the younger brother of trainer Toby Balding. Ian Balding was born in the US, but his family returned to the UK in 1945.

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British flat racing Champion Trainer1971

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He was educated at Marlborough College and Millfield school in Somerset. He went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1959 to read Rural Estate Management, where he played Rugby for the university team, gaining his Blue in 1961 at full back. He started training in 1964. Kingsclere became his home at the age of 26 and it is here that he earned his reputation as an internationally respected trainer.

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Deceased
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Lived 1938 to 2026 · aged 87