Middleham Park Racing syndicate owners are taking on a snowy challenge in Switzerland's White Turf meeting to watch Mordred race in the Grosser Preis von St Moritz.

The Milton Harris-trained gelding has already done the business twice on the snow, winning the Grosser Preis Longines on February 6 with the race cut in trip over safety concerns, just one of the things to navigate in this icy test.

Harris then entered the six-year-old in the Grosser Preis Longines on Sunday and the horse won gamely by three-quarters of a length under Sibylle Vogt.

The alpine adventure will come to a head when Mordred lines up for the lucrative Grosser Preis von St Moritz, a race worth the equivalent of £80,000, with a group of owners travelling out for the experience.

Harris has planned out the project, with his experience of the meeting proving invaluable in allowing Middleham Park members to enjoy success on the frozen lake course.

"Milton takes all the credit for this," said Tim Palin, director of racing for Middleham Park.
"He sourced the horse, he bought the horse with these races in mind and next week's big prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs.
"It was his plan, he felt the horse would be perfectly suited to these kind of conditions and he's trained him to the minute since October, when he purchased him for 16,000 guineas at the horses-in-training sale.
"He's orchestrated it brilliantly, the horse went out on the January 27, he ran his first race on February 6 and then ran yesterday (Sunday).
"There were health and safety concerns on the morning of the first race, so they reduced all the races that day. Our race was 1,800 metres down to 800 metres because they weren't sure the back straight was safe.
"It turned out the race was only over four furlongs, but we managed to get the job done there and then yesterday, because he'd only run four furlongs, Milton felt that he only had a piece of work that day so we could probably get away with another race."
Middleham Park are one of the big names in racehorse syndication and have sent out multiple Group 1 winners on the Flat and Graded performers over jumps, but the prospect of the White Turf was a uniquely easy sell to members.
"For an ownership point of view, he was very popular," Palin said.
"We've got a dozen owners going out on Saturday ready for Sunday, so it's been really working towards a crescendo of excitement and involvement.
"It's worked out so far, so good, and Milton says the hospitality there is like being treated like royalty.
"When we buy horses it can take weeks or months to syndicate them, but this horse was very popular from day one, simply because of this.
"It was an absolutely unique opportunity. Milton sent me a list of eight or nine horses and said 'I think this will win the race or go very close in the race' and that's what made me choose him out of the horses he offered us.
"It was the ability to offer something unique. We've probably all read the press about the St Moritz White Turf racing, but to actually be involved in it, and successfully be involved in it, is the opportunity of a lifetime.
"We're most grateful to Milton and we're very grateful to our owners for jumping aboard and flying out to St Moritz."