Jack and Lynda Ramsden are to train a smaller string when they come back to Britain, it was reported today.
The pair, who quit Britain for France two years ago, have signed a deal to return to their former North Yorkshire base at Breckenbrough.
But they do not intend to operate on as big a scale as previously when renewing their licence next year, and they aim to concentrate on the Flat.
'We plan not to have more than 35 horses in future and not the 52 we had before,' Jack Ramsden told the Daily Mail.
'We want it to be not too much of a hassle.
'We will be training only Flat horses unless we come across one, like Top Cees, who is good enough to go for races at Cheltenham. Winters are for holidays, after all.'
Ramsden, who revealed that smart sprinters Astonished and Nuclear Debate are set to stay with John Hammond rather than return to their former base at Breckenbrough, reflected on the decision to leave France.
'We have enjoyed living here for a couple ofyears but being on the periphery you are slightly out of it,' he said. 'We missed the involvement.
'The opportunity to buy Breckenbrough occurred - we wouldn`t have gone anywhere else.'
