At Leeton…
Race 4. The Guildford Transport Handicap. Catchy race title….
Better, I suppose, than so many of our races – “The Money Back Guaranteed if your horse finishes 5th and the Winner is trained in Wales Handicap Stakes…..”
Take The Chance, the favourite, sluices home on what looks like rock hard ground. New South Wales. Spring in the air…
Two race meetings a year. A Picnic Meeting. And a TAB card. A racecourse that only has two meetings a year ?! How does that even make sense ?! Maybe they host Weddings and Wakes and Barmitzvahs and Car Boot Sales and Antique Fairs and Garden Gnome Festivals to cover the costs…
Anyway, it all looks good fun. Love the idea of Picnic Races. Primarily because I love a good picnic…
Parading at Swan Hill for the 6th right now. Sun is shining. Looks fun. No picnics in sight, but a relaxed crowd in T Shirts and shades and wide hats…
Aussie racing rabbit hole…
No runners for us today…
Fontwell are racing today. Close to home. The closest we have to “Picnic Races”. Parked up in the centre of the course. A car boot filled with baskets and booze. Close up to the fences and hurdles. Happy days spent in the Sussex sun. And the wind and the rain. With no runners elsewhere, perhaps I should go ?? Love the place…
Big match later. Farnham hosting Cirencester in their FA Cup Qualifying Round replay…
Saturday’s 2-2 draw is on Youtube. A good game. Cirencester unlucky not to nick it in the dying minutes. Perhaps I should go ??
Sport eh…
As pointed out to me by my great friend David Fish, Sea Bird’s Arc win might well have been the greatest ever. Sea Bird dispatching a stellar field – as did Dancing Brave. Which was the better horse ?? We will never know – but on an Autumn afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne, they both did something pretty remarkable…
Peter O’Sullevan’s voice. The voice of my youth. Although, unlike Mr Fish, I was not quite around to witness this one live…
