While the smaller British owner-breeder has been in decline for some time, it is not a completely dying breed, and one farm in particular is enjoying something of a renaissance in that regard this season.From only 14 foals born at Trinity Park Stud in Berkshire in 2024, three of that crop are now Group winners, and better still they represent three different owner-breeders. The unbeaten Dr Rascal (Sottsass) got the ball rolling when winning the G2 Coral Vintage Stakes at Glorious Goodwood for Julia Rosier and her son Charlie. In the post-race clamour of excitement, Charlie was quick to credit Becky Marsh of Trinity Park Stud for all the work she did in raising the colt, and for having persuaded them not to sell him. On their hands now they have a horse who is three-from-three, is the second foal of his young dam, and heads this Sunday to the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes at the Irish Champions Festival.“We're very excited about this weekend because we've got Dr Rascal running at the Curragh,” Marsh says. “That's the big one, his first Group 1 attempt, which is very exciting.”It isn't all quite plain sailing, however. She admits, “I've made a right boo-boo because I sent off for my passport to be renewed and I haven't had it back. I've been very kindly invited over by the Rosiers, but I don't know if I can go yet.”Whether watching from the stands in Ireland or on her television at home, Marsh can take great pride in the continuing progression of a colt whose prowess was obvious to her from an early age. “I wouldn't say I get this right every time but you do get a sense of their ability and also their character,” she says of watching the youngsters in the paddocks. “Dr Rascal was always just so laidback, so easy, for a colt especially. He never turned a hair, he never had a sick day. Everything we put forward to him, he just got on with. “They all get very well handled, but I think also that's just him, and I think that's why he's quite smart, really, I think he knows when he's got to put the effort in and use his energy.”She adds, “When we were looking at the yearlings, I said to Charlie and Julia, 'You've got to keep him.' He's by Sottsass, and the mare was relatively young and hadn't really produced anything, so he wasn't going to make a fortune. Dr Rascal was always a big standout. His turn of foot was insane in the paddock. I just always used to see him almost bolt across the field.”She adds of the Rosiers, “They both absolutely love it. They've owned horses for a long time, but the breeding side of it is slightly newer for them. The second mare they had was Little Miss Rascal, who's the dam of Dr Rascal, and before that, they just had one mare with us called Part Exchange.”Little Miss Rascal's first foal, Miss Rascal (Havana Gold), was also promising before fate intervened. She too was trained by Oliver Cole and won an Ascot maiden in smart fashion before running fifth in the G2 Queen Mary Stakes, in which she fractured her tibia. She is now in foal back in the paddocks at Trinity Park Stud. Becky Marsh, centre, celebrating with the Rosiers at Goodwood Following Dr Rascal into the elite territory of becoming a Group-winning two-year-old was Marc Middleton-Heath's homebred Sugar Yes Please, winner of the G3 Newsells Park Stud Sweet Solera Stakes. Her success was extra special for both her trainer Eve Johnson Houghton and for Marsh, as the filly is by Mohaather, who was bred by the trainer's mother Gaie and raised at Trinity Park Stud on a nurse mare after his dam died not long after he was foaled.“This is first mare he's ever had, and her first foal, you can't make it up,” Marsh says of Sugar Yes Please's owner-breeder. “She was a lovely, big, strong filly, and he was never going to sell her. She looks like she's getting better every time. “And I thank Eve, because we foal all of the mares for Eve and Gaie Johnson Houghton. Marc was looking for somewhere to send his mare, and Eve said to send her here. They're very good at supporting me.”The latest to add to the roll of honour of Trinity Park Stud graduates is Acclamation Star (Acclamation), who won last week's G3 IRE-Incentive Dick Poole Fillies' Stakes at Salisbury for her breeder Peter Gleeson.“All three breeders, they're trying to do it by racing their stock and that's why it's incredible when it does happen, because we know how much how tough it is to even get a winner,” Marsh says.“So to have this happen for all of them is wonderful. Peter Gleeson has been with us for a long time now. He bred Keep Busy, who was a Listed winner, but it's just really nice that he believed in this filly and knew that she could be something quite special. Her full-brother we sold at Goffs for £200,000 but unfortunately he had an accident and never made it to the racecourse.“Peter thought that Acclamation Star was one to keep, and he really put everything into her, so I'm glad she has repaid him.”After this weekend, Marsh and her team can look forward to a potential run in the G2 Betway Rockfel Stakes for Sugar Yes Please“I believe that is the plan, and then the Fillies' Mile, potentially, and then straight to the Guineas,” she says. Marsh and her husband Robert Tincknell have been at Trinity Park Stud for 15 years. The farm at Kintbury, not far from Newbury, was previously known as Templeton Stud and was once home to the stock of one of the great owner-breeders, Lord Howard de Walden, who bred his sensational Derby winner Slip Anchor there. Marsh adds, “We've been very lucky, we've had some amazing clients and great support throughout the years. I'm not really one to go out there and try to take on massive consignments, or 100 mares. I've always just set out to breed the best we can breed, and I absolutely love what I do. The horses mean so much to me and I do like just to stay here on my stud, looking after things.“Some of my clients want to sell, of course, but some are breeding to race, which is really nice. What's really worked for us is they get sent off to get broken in from here, and then they come back to have a break over the winter. We did exactly the same with all three of these, Dr Rascal, Sugar Yes Please and Acclamation Star, and all the owners have said now that they want to continue that. “Sugar Yes Please's half-sister went off last week to get broken in, and then she'll come back to spend the winter here. They can change so much during that time.“We just rough them off, we don't mollycoddle them, and they go back in [to training] a much stronger horse.”There have already been plenty of high days for the Trinity Park Stud team this season, with hopefully more to come, but Marsh, like any breeder or stud manager, is all too aware of the other side of the coin.She says, “You've got to really enjoy those good days, because it's a bit of a slog sometimes through the winter when you're out all hours foaling, or when things don't go well. But we're so lucky – the calibre of horses we've got here now is just getting better and better, and to have three really nice two-year-olds go out and do so well this year is just incredible.”And for someone whose first love is being among the horses she breeds or raises for others, perhaps the current absence of a passport is not the end of the world.Marsh adds, “It's nice to be there on the big days, absolutely it is, it's amazing, and I'm probably the most emotional out of everyone there, but I'm also very happy here.” The post Marsh’s Holy Trinity of Group Winners appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.