Dean Farm had been the training base of Bill Wightman, best known for handling the steeplechaser Halloween.
Weinfeld was an Austrian-born businessman who had come to Britain as an eleven-year-old refugee[1] and had established Helena Springfield Ltd as a successful textile business.
The stud sells most of its produce at auction but often keeps back the best of its fillies as potential broodmares.
[3] The stud's four foundation mares were Home And Away, One In A Million, Odeon and Reprocolor who were purchased for Weinfeld by the bloodstock agent Richard Galpin.
Meon Valley Stud has produced the following Group 1 winners: c = colt, f = filly, g = gelding