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Throughout his 17 year playing profession, Michael Owen broke a list of records, raised a host of significant prizes and was crowned as the Ballon d’Or winner in 2001.
Now, more than a years after hanging up his boots, the previous Liverpool and England striker gets his kicks out of another sporting pursuit.
Owen’s Manor House Stables is a vast 170-acre racing operation, south of Chester, where he houses practically 150 racehorses. Amongst the well-known owners are previous England team-mates and Premier League stars, however for Owen, the genuine fascination depends on the horses themselves.
Owen on his Manor House Stables
The horse in the pool, he notifies us, is called Box To Box– so called since it’s owned by Owen’s previous BT Sport associates Steve McManaman, Paul Scholes, Owen Hargreaves and Andy Townsend. Not just did they work as experts on package, however they were likewise mostly box-to-box midfielders. “He’s 7 years of ages and he’s won 6 races,” Owen states of the animal.
The previous Real Madrid guy likewise reveals us horses owned by Sir Alex Ferguson, Anthony Gordon and James Milner. “He’s the luckiest owner,” Owen jokes of the latter. “Every horse he purchases becomes a super star, and costs a great deal of cash. He’s had 6 horses here– I believe the most he’s spent for one has to do with ₤ 80,000, and the least he’s offered one for is ₤ 360,000.”
In a nod to his greatest specific honour, another of Owen’s horses is called Balon d’Or, with Owen scheduling that name for a thoroughbred with specific capacity, although self-deprecatingly confesses that, yes, he’s considering that understood he spelt the name incorrect.
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Owen thinks he has actually put around ₤ 13million into the center because he acquired the land at the age of 23 when he was still terrorising defences in a Liverpool t-shirt. Even then, he understood his love for horse racing was so strong that he understood what he wished to do when his playing days were over.
What was initially a farm was transformed into stables, which have actually grown and grown since, and are now amongst the very best in the nation. Owen uses around 50 personnel, a number of whom work here every day and train the horses– we see a few of them being considered a gallop by riders on an all-weather track.
He does not really own the majority of the animals, however– business design sees him buy them at auctions (he approximates he’ll invest ₤ 2m to ₤ 3m to purchase around 40 in the next couple of weeks), then offer to individuals who can be found in as owners and pay a month-to-month training charge. Darts duo Luke Littler and Stephen Bunting likewise have a horse here called Bunting Mental, however not every owner is from the sporting world.
With that in mind, in addition to inviting FourFourTwo, he just recently enabled the cams in for a six-part Amazon Prime Video documentary called Meet The Owensmade by the Whisper production business that was co-founded by ex-Formula 1 racer David Coulthard.
For Owen, his post-football life is every bit as enthusiastic as his playing profession.
All 6 episodes of Meet the Owens are offered now to stream on Amazon Prime Video
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