Pics From Ascot Last Weekend

[uncle goober]

The two-day meeting at Ascot began with a win from PSYCHOMODO

SELF RESPECT leads ACAMBO in the early stages of the Novice Chase

McCoy checks the big screen from aboard ACAMBO as he coasts to victory

COUNTY ZEN beats Blue Bajan and Song Of Songs in the 2mile Novice Hurdle

LORD JAY JAY jumps the last having made all

Paul Moloney checks behind rather than the screen

CRUISING RIVER flies the last fence to beat Yardbird

MISSIS POTTS wins the last

MISSIS POTTS and T J O'Brien

After the predicted frost failed to make an impact Saturdays card went ahead and GONE TO LUNCH continued his winning run

 

[uncle goober]

TORA BORA and MITH HILL take the last hurdle

But it was ARAFAN ( pale blue colours, A Vampire) who flew home to collar the leader.

ARAFAN

YES SIR leads in The Amlin Chase

HOWLE HILL tracks the leaders

HOWLE HILL safely takes the last to win

DETROIT CITY

HARDY EUSTACE and AFSOUN over the last

HARDY EUSTACE gets the better of Afsoun to win The Ascot Hurdle

 

[Kathy]

Wonderful, UG! Thanks again for letting me have the Psychomodo photo for Brendan's website. :clap:

Missis Potts is a particularly great photo and the arty ones of Howle Hill and Yes Sir. I love the one of Detroit City, too.

I was at Ascot racecourse on Saturday but I was "behind the scenes" probably getting in everyones way.

 

[uncle goober]

HARDY EUSTACE

HOO LA BALOO is challenged at the last but MAGIC SKY fluffs it

Charlie Poste is fired into the air and all momentum is lost

HOO LA BALOO heads for home

HOO LA BALOO

LABELTHOU jumps round in her own time to win

SEVEN IS MY NUMBER goes to post for the bumper complete with ear plugs and various other add ons and plug ins

and came back too good for his rivals

Onto Kempton yesterday where PROCAS DE THAIX struggled to win

PROCAS DE THAIX

 

[uncle goober]

BOOMSHAKALAKA goes to post for the2mile Novice Chase

and jumps the second last having led for most of the way

fights off the challenges of Calideo and Le Burf

BOOMSHAKALAKA

REFINEMENT wins The Mares Hurdle

CARNIVAL TOWN leads TRIGGER THE LIGHT over the first ditch in the 3mile Novice Chase

TREASURY COUNSEL gets no further than the second, and a very harsh 'unseated rider' on Mick Fitzgerald from the Raging Boast

TREASURY COUNSEL is none the worse

TRIGGER THE LIGHT has Carnival Town beaten on the run in

TRIGGER THE LIGHT

 

[uncle goober]

KNIGHTON LAD makes it a double for Robert Thornton and Alan King

BLACK HILLS defies top weight in the bookmakers sponsored Handicap Chase

and finally, RAPSCALLION ran away with the conditional jockeys hurdle for the inform Best stable

 

[crazyhorse]

Honestly, what would we do without your photos ? Great stuff as usual, look at Trigger the Light and Hoo la Baloo :luv:

again and again, many thanks !

 

[Gaz's Way De Solzen]

Absolutely fantastic pictures.

What type of camera and lens is it that you use? ? ?

 

[uncle goober]

Thanks GWDS !

Aldaniti asked me this just last week ;

I use a variety of lenses as follows ;

Canon 17-85mm f4-5.6
Canon 50mm f1.8
Canon 85mm f1.8
Canon 135mm f2.8
Canon 70-200mm f2.8
Canon 75-300mm f4-5.6
Tamron 200-400mm f5.6

The focal lengths should be multiplied x1.3 or 1.4 (cant remember which) to find the actual focal length to account for them being old lenses on what was a new digital camera Canon 30D

 

[Gaz's Way De Solzen]

Good job i ducked there, loads of stuff just went over my head.

Thanks for the info, sounds good, im not very techincal minded when it comes to cameras though, sounds impressive.