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A Day (Or Evening) At The Races

I'd rather have lunch with you, walsworth (so long as you're paying).

Wonderful day - if progressively more freezing - Planned Paradise made it perfect and I've got three ante-post bets for Cheltenham coming out of it all.
 
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Although I enjoyed my two trips to the Jumps at Windsor, I can't say I'm in a hurry to go racing again in the foreseeable future.

I went racing at Kempton Park, Sandown Park, Brighton and Windsor last year and tbh I'll be surprised if I bother to even match that modest level of attendance this year.

I could have gone to Fontwell Park or to Cocklebarrow Point today, but I just couldn't be bothered and tbh the weather looked grim at both and I was able to watch it all at home anyway.
 
Though I've been to a few Flat Turf and AW fixtures, I haven't actually gone Jumps racing at Lingfield Park since the 1980s.

On my first visit back then, I remember getting the train from Victoria (IIRC), walking along a leafy path from the station to the racecourse and once there memories of natural hedge wings on the fences, standing by the last which had the same open ditch/plain fence final circuit arrangement as Sandown Park, seafood sandwiches and Rombouts filter coffee served in a building behind the Stand and a very ruddy-faced Dick Francis sitting in one of the bars.

I could go today, but the weather forecast isn't great, I won't be likely to see anything of the calibre of Berlin or Bolands Cross, horses I saw there in the 1980s, so I think I'll give it the swerve and watch at home here in Hampshire instead.
 
You could have watched (in person) Inion Tiogair decide whether today is the day (and perhaps even had an encouraging whisper in those big ears - the horse's not yours, Ian)
 
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