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.
 
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