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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)
 
In my experience, when favourite dishes have not spread in popularity beyond their home region it’s usually not hard to see why.
 
I go racing for the first time since January and all I get is a wrong thread comment about whelks and eels - just when I thought my popularity couldn't get any lower! 😂
 
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I was toying with the idea of going racing again before the end of the year.

But fortunately "Leafy," who knows me better than I know myself, has reminded me I'll hate spunking the tenner in fuel to get there and back, I detest people generally and detest racing and betting people most of all and I'll be bored halfway through the afternoon and leave early.

Bullet dodged.
 
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Do they still have a stall selling jellied eels and whelks there? And if so, did you partake?
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Just spotted this - just the three months later! - Walsworth wasn't on the wrong thread after all.

I didn't see one and tbh I tend to give racecourse food the swerve nowadays.
 
Same here, but I make an exception for ice cream cones. The O’Brien vans at some of the Irish tracks provide an especially good one.

I’m looking to go to Laytown on Thursday. The forecast for Ireland’s east coast is pretty hairy for tomorrow with heavy rain and spot flooding forecast. And it is expected that the track at Laytown will be inundated at least half a dozen times between now and Thursday afternoon. But I won’t be put off.
 
It has always been a ritual with me when going to Goodwood on a sunny day to drive to nearby Selsey first, get and eat a pint of shell-on prawns from a seafood hut and later have an ice cream from the local ice cream van.
 
++++BREAKING NEWS++++

And it's BIG.

I am going racing on not one, but two, consecutive, days next year.

As you all know, a man of my immenseness naturally lives in constant fear of assassination, so dates, times and venues remain undisclosed.

I will also be accompanied by my entire "FIRM" and security will be tighter than a cow's **** in autumn (a somewhat disturbing term the late Harry Heymer, former Racing Editor of The Guardian, was fond of).

"Leafy," the Vito Corleone of Surrey, my "Man With No Name" Blood Brother from the frozen North and his two Minders will all be in attendance as security.

It promises to be a 48-hour maelstrom of profitable betting and visits to curry houses in the vicinity of the racecourses in question.

"Excited" doesn't even come close.
 
More details are emerging about the most significant 48-hour dual mob trip to the races in the history of 48-hour dual mob trips to the races.

"Leafy" has now announced that he will be making a 24-hours-in-advance visit to the venues in question, so he and "his people" can secure the area, ready for YFUSA's arrival under heavy guard amid maximum Frozen North security the following day.

Anyone who so much as looks at YFUSA is liable to be looking down the barrel of a Beretta or a Glock before you can say "sleeps with the fishes."

This leaves YFUSA free to focus on key matters like sorting out the best bets and the best authentic curry house in the area to visit after racing.
 
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Our goal? To give honest reviews on a day at the races at every racecourse up and down the country through the eyes of two 'ordinary Joe' racegoers, in easy-to-understand, no frills, no big fancy words, plain English - a racecourse review website from racegoers for racegoers. We are proud to be the original and only racecourse review website to have reviewed all sixty* UK racecourses.

The two blokes in question are Nige (Leg) Graham and Jules (Cheg) Rea.



* Newmarket has two separate racecourses: the Rowley Mile and the July Course.

( This is an interesting find for today. Lots of info on admission prices, course layouts, food and drink etc. York was rated the best course, and Ayr the worst. )
 

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