Bay filly by Bungle Inthejungle

What you get

At the yard

Frequent opportunities to visit your horse, often including breakfast, lunch or champagne receptions (no number stated)

Members in the syndicate

No more than 16 per horse.One horse divided into 16 shares. Members holding more than one share make it fewer.

Horses covered

1

Hospitality

Race-day hospitality with owners' badges and champagne, win or lose; stable visits often with breakfast, lunch or champagne receptions; members' social events

Keeping in touch

Regular video updates and extensive communication

Prize money

Each owner receives a pro-rata share of all prize money and any sale proceeds

What it costs

Year one, per share

£8,100Covers the share and everything the horse costs in the first year.

A year, per share

£5,967For comparison. The first year's price also buys the share. We treat the operator's later-year cost, £4,900, as a year's running costs and the rest, £3,200, as the price of the share, which is spread over three years like any other purchase: £1,067 a year, plus £4,900.

Per 1% of the syndicate's interest

£955One share is 1 of 16 in a one-horse syndicate. The operator states the number of shares, not a percentage of the horse, so the comparison divides by the syndicate's interest.

Share size

1 of 16 shares in a one-horse syndicate

At the end

You own a share of the horse and a share of anything it is sold for. What that will be worth is unknown.

The horse

About Kennet Valley Syndicates

Year the operator started

Founded in 1988.From Kennet Valley Syndicates' website, read 16 October 2026

How many horses they run

15 horses.From Kennet Valley Syndicates' website, read 19 October 2026

What's published

The details we look for in every offer, each counting once. A tick means we've found it on the operator's website or in a document they give every member, or, for RSA membership, on the RSA's own register. "Not found yet" doesn't mean it isn't there.

• –Full written terms not found yet
• ✓What a further term costs“Second year cost for three-year-old career: £4,900” From Kennet Valley Syndicates' website, read 19 October 2026
• –What happens when the term ends not found yet
• –Aftercare when racing ends not found yet
• ✓How prize money is shared
• –Whether you can sell your share not found yet
• –Where the horse was bought (sale and lot) not found yet
• –What the horse cost not found yet
• –Complaints process not found yet
• ✓What happens if costs run over“Transparent accounts with all costs budgeted, unspent funds returned, and audited statements provided” From Kennet Valley Syndicates' website, read 16 October 2026
• –Insurance not found yet
• –BHA registration: not found yet. The BHA doesn't publish a register, so ask to see it.
• ✓Racehorse Syndicates Association membershipListed on the RSA's register (read 12 October 2026)
• ✓Year the operator started
• ✓How many horses they run
• ✓Prices, without having to askYes, on their website (read 19 October 2026)
• –Winners to date not found yet
• –Owners' badges not found yet
• ✓Yard visits
• ✓How often members hear
• –The most members per horse not found yet
• ✓Hospitality for members

Questions to ask before you join

We haven't found these on Kennet Valley Syndicates' website yet. That doesn't mean they're missing, so ask when you get in touch.

• Can I read the full written terms before I join?
• What happens to the horse at the end of the term?
• What happens to the horse if it's injured or retires, and who pays?
• If the horse is sold, do I get a share of the money?
• Where was the horse bought, so I can look it up in the sale results?
• What did the horse cost?
• Who do I go to if something goes wrong?
• Is the horse insured, and who pays for it?
• Can I see the syndicate's BHA registration?
• How many owners' badges will I get, and how are they shared out?
• What's the most people who can share the horse with me, when every share is sold?