Read the Jerusalem Post Magazine feature on Paul - 'Bring horse racing to the Israeli masses'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659725032&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Read Marcus Townend's UK Daily Mail feature on Paul's attempts to provide Israel's first winner in the UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1113509/Israeli-bred-Vanilla-Bally-warms-Brits.html

Read Sam Ser's feature (originally published in The Jerusalem Post) about Paul's English racing challenge
http://samser.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/the-longshot/

Read Paul's assessment of the state of Israeli racing, in Australia's 'The Thoroughbred Magazine'
http://issuu.com/slattery/docs/thoroughbred_sum_09/30

When his father joined the first ever public racehorse ownership syndicate in 1981, (run by the Racegoers Club of Great Britain), he assigned one of his shares to Paul and ignited a passion for racehorse ownership and an admiration for the skill of training horses that remains just as strong to this day.

The success of the syndicate (9 wins in 2 years), encouraged Paul to invest in a racehorse of his own. He became a partner in Absolutely Free, a filly who proved a model of consistency (for all the wrong reasons), in never reaching a place in 17 racecourse appearances on the flat! Trainer Chris Thornton decided to have one last throw of the dice and schooled the grey three-year-old over hurdles, a move that culminated in Paul and his partners landing a racecourse coup when his charge (backed from 20/1 down to 5/1) won a Southwell seller on her hurdles bow, in August 1987.

Paul, against Thornton's best advice, bought the filly back at the post-race auction, convinced that she had now found her niche and would achieve something. Three days later, without any prior indication, Absolutely Free tragically died of a heart attack whilst at morning exercise. Paul and his partners were devastated at the loss, quickly learning how in racing, triumph and tragedy may be just a split-second apart.

Reinvesting in a yearling with Chris Thornton, Paul and his partners bought an Aragon filly that they named Katherines Emerald.

Debuting at Ripon in a decent maiden in April 1988, 'Kathy' won first time out at odds of 16/1 (20/1 taken early!), and gave the syndicate two years of tremendous fun, invariably running well in sprint events, including when beaten a short-head by subsequent European juvenile sprinter of the year, Shuttlecock Corner!

Subsequent horses Naomi's Keepsake (who couldn't raise a gallop and eventually retired to become a dressage horse), and Challenger Row (affectionately known as 'Challenger Slow' as he could never quicken), failed to score over the next four years, but thoughts of the 'glory' days remain, even now, fresh in the memory.