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I almost got the chance to go about 40 years ago. I won a competition in the racing paper (the Handicap Book, forerunner to the Raceform Update and eventually incorporated in the Weekender). You had to take the six given previous winners of the PTS Laurels Hcap (nowadays the Chesterfield Cup) and work out in which order they'd finish if they raced each other off their marks on good ground and the distances separating them. I got all six in the right order and four of the distances correct (as the judges deemed), enough to win the first prize: tickets for two to PTS Laurels day at the meeting. To say I was excited is putting it mildly, imagining me and Mrs O swanking about among the toffs.

When the letter came through, though, my heart sank. In the envelope were two entry tickets and a chitty for the car park. Considering the fanfare with which the paper announced the comp, I expected travel fare and at least one night's hotel accommodation. However, back then, there was no way we could afford the former let alone both, so the tickets were binned.

<blockquote data-quote="Desert Orchid" data-source="post: 2683074" data-attributes="member: 65242">I almost got the chance to go about 40 years ago. I won a competition in the racing paper (the Handicap Book, forerunner to the Raceform Update and eventually incorporated in the Weekender). You had to take the six given previous winners of the PTS Laurels Hcap (nowadays the Chesterfield Cup) and work out in which order they&#039;d finish if they raced each other off their marks on good ground and the distances separating them. I got all six in the right order and four of the distances correct (as the judges deemed), enough to win the first prize: tickets for two to PTS Laurels day at the meeting. To say I was excited is putting it mildly, imagining me and Mrs O swanking about among the toffs.When the letter came through, though, my heart sank. In the envelope were two entry tickets and a chitty for the car park. Considering the fanfare with which the paper announced the comp, I expected travel fare and at least one night&#039;s hotel accommodation. However, back then, there was no way we could afford the former let alone both, so the tickets were binned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desert Orchid, post: 2683074, member: 65242"] I almost got the chance to go about 40 years ago. I won a competition in the racing paper (the Handicap Book, forerunner to the Raceform Update and eventually incorporated in the Weekender). You had to take the six given previous winners of the PTS Laurels Hcap (nowadays the Chesterfield Cup) and work out in which order they'd finish if they raced each other off their marks on good ground and the distances separating them. I got all six in the right order and four of the distances correct (as the judges deemed), enough to win the first prize: tickets for two to PTS Laurels day at the meeting. To say I was excited is putting it mildly, imagining me and Mrs O swanking about among the toffs. When the letter came through, though, my heart sank. In the envelope were two entry tickets and a chitty for the car park. Considering the fanfare with which the paper announced the comp, I expected travel fare and at least one night's hotel accommodation. However, back then, there was no way we could afford the former let alone both, so the tickets were binned. [/QUOTE]

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