Kirsten Rausing took the bloodstock world by surprise when announcing last week that Frankel's full-brother Noble Mission would be returning to Britain to stand at Lanwades after stints at Lane's End in America and Japan's JBBA Stallion Station.He is however not the only noble mission with which Rausing is associated. A week earlier, her Alborada Trust marked its 25th anniversary by making a significant donation of £10 million to Cancer Research and to the Addenbrookes Charitable Trust.Over the last quarter of a century, the trust, which is named after her beloved homebred dual Champion Stakes winner, has donated around £70 million to charitable causes. “It started really to commemorate my wonderful grey pearl,” Rausing explains. “Her winnings formed the basis of the original funding, which were quite significant at the time. But obviously, we've had to top up quite a bit since then.”She admits that the trust's name will likely not resonate with many people beyond the racing world but says, “I didn't want it to be the Kirsten Rausing Trust for self-aggrandisement. That's not the point of it.”The point of the Alborada Trust is fundamentally to help ease suffering, whether in humans or animals, across the globe.“We try to stick to the tagline 'humans, animals, worldwide', so it's human and animal, medical, education, research, and so on,” Rausing says. “It is animal welfare. We have been the Brooke Hospital's biggest contributor for many, many years. But also we contribute to human disaster relief, tsunamis and starvation, and one of our main charities that we support is Médecins Sans Frontières.“I'm a great fan of theirs. I feel they are incredibly brave to go in to some places where they are and where no other charities seem to dare go; places like Haiti, South Sudan, and Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh – unbelievably brave.”Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has benefited to the tune of £9 million from the most recent donation, with the other £1 million going to the Addenbrooke's Children's Cancer Hospital.“The CRUK donation is towards individual researchers, and that was the idea of our trustee, Professor Jane Clarke, former president of Wolfson College, Cambridge,” Rausing says.“She had, as a young woman, been in that similar situation, doing academic research on a shoestring. There are obviously a number of young, brilliant researchers that find it difficult to cope financially. So this was her idea and I think it's a good one.“I think most all families everywhere have been touched by cancer in some shape or form. So it's something that we can all relate to. The Alborada Trust has hitherto also supported a lot of leukaemia and pre-leukaemia research. It now appears that cancer researchers can even find pre-leukaemia in unborn babies. With medical research, there's always new branches, conditions one didn't even know about 25 years ago.”And so to Rausing's latest stallion recruitment. Noble Mission, who bridged the training handover to Lady Cecil upon the death of her husband Sir Henry in June 2013, has prompted quite the outpouring of affection from his fans on social media. But perhaps nobody is more excited by his arrival at Lanwades, just a few stone's throws from where he was trained at Warren Place and foaled at Banstead Manor Stud, than Cecil herself.Armed with a bag of carrots, she was swift to visit him at Lanwades on Thursday morning shortly after his emergence from quarantine. It is 12 years since she has seen him, not long after Noble Mission competed his trio of Group 1 wins, culminating in his victory in the Champion Stakes as a five-year-old, two years after his illustrious elder sibling had signed off in exactly the same fashion.“Kirsten rang me last Monday to invite me to visit him and it was a gloomy day but I can't tell you how happy it made me. It really brought back all those memories of Champions Day,” she says. “I am just so thrilled that he's home.”Rausing, adds, “I'm working on my matings and I have so far found about a dozen mares for him.“He was very tired when he arrived after a long journey from Japan but, after a day or two, he started giving us a bit of advice as to how important he was. I was delighted when I heard him shouting. That's what you want from a horse.” The post Rausing’s Dual Noble Mission appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.