Race Country

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jinnyj

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Finally the new racing documentary, Race Country, filmed in and around Lambourn starts next week - BBC2 3pm Monday - Friday.

It stars all the usual suspects (and a few new ones!) including my vet, box driver & apprentice we used on Monday, Ashleigh Horton (poor girl is so exhaustee due to riding horse with zero ability/enthusiasm that she has had to go on holiday for 2 weeks to recover! :lol: )
 
Great, cheers for reminding me - saw a bit in the RP about it a while back. It'll be interesting to see how many of the old faces are in it!
 
Tues night 10.30PM on BBC 3 there is a new series of Nighty Night , cast includes Angus Deyton amongst others. Almost all the outdoor scenes were filmed here on the beaches at Widemouth Bay and Bude. If you look closely you might just see yours truly in the background.

On a racing note saw Paul Webber here on the beach last weekend.
 
Phew, I wasn't in the coverage from the Open Day,mass relief for all.
Enjoyed it though,interesting to see the lass at Kingwood with the close circuit cameras in her room so she could monitor how the mare was.
And a member of the Twiston Davies family that didn't mind being in front of the cameras,there's a first.
That Channon horse they backed is owned by my boss so I'd better not call it a slow old boat!
 
Yeah, what a cute foal!!!

The first episode wasn't bad, but I'd like to see more action rather than Clare sitting in the pub with a stable lad & punting his tips! :lol:
 
Nice, I did enjoy that first episode. Like Arkwright remarks above, the birthing of the colt foal at Kingwood was a treat to watch.
Did Claire B get her figures upside down during her visit to the Lambourn betting office when saying " only 10% of the 10billion bet annually is paid out in winnings"?
Looking forward to the rest of the series.
 
Try Ali - I ithink she may have done. I was chatting to her on MSN throughout & she was petrified that she would feature during a "drunken episode"!!! :lol:
 
Yeh I did Kirsty.

As I said to Dom, I wonder how many takes it took before they got it right, i've never known Gerry back any winners in all the times i've been in the Wheel!! I didn't think i'd be on, surely i'd have seen the cameras, or would I :ph34r: They were definatly filming in ours at the Open Day, tried my best to keep out of shot.

I'm looking forward to next Monday, the farriers apprentice is on!

i'm looking forward to
 
I know how just everyone on here dearly loves Best Mate :rolleyes: - so you'll be delighted to know that Friday's episode takes in a visit to West Lockinge...
 
Managed to watch this today. Enjoyed it very much - great presentation as expected by Claire Balding (did make me laugh though the bit about no woman would turn down a man like Efsio - except her perhaps :P ).

Lovely shots of Lambourn and its surroundings and the desperate enthusiasm from Mary Meek, I can certainly relate to.

Looking forward to the rest of the series.
 
Thanks to the programme planners at the BBC, I'm destined never to see an episode of this h:) My kids all get out of school at 3pm and I have to be there to collect them h:) And even on the days I work I still skive off for a bit at 3pm to pick them up, so I can't watch it there either h:)

Shame they can't repeat it on BBC 3 h:)
 
Managed to watch the first episode last night and, while I liked the stud groom at Kingwood, I was very surprised at how much she interfered during that foaling.

How much was for the cameras, I've no idea but if that's how she goes about every foaling, I'd be surprised.

Normal foalings don't need you pulling the foal out (and that mare was shelling a pea) you run the risk of the mare getting up too quickly if she's not 150% quiet and breaking the cord/retaining placenta and certainly she was running the risk of interfering with the bond between mare and foal with all that rubbing the foal down - you want the mare to do that by licking her foal.

Try that with a maiden or very foal proud mare and you're storing up problems, for sure!
 
Originally posted by Hunneyb@Sep 7 2005, 03:50 PM
It's clashing with the racing from Donny! :angry:
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Didn't Donny go off air at 3.15?

I switched over after the Park Hill and think I only missed the intro part.
 
Donny went off-air on terrestrial TV at 3.15, but it is still on Racing UK! Ch4 also decided in their wisdom to televise a 15 mins programme, "Turf Accounts" from 3.15-3.30 - a fly-on-the-wall look into some of racing's characters. Great bit of planning there - put it on at the same time something nearly identical is aired on BBC2!
 
I remember listening to a Radio 4 show a few years back about a 2yo filly named Trump Street and her owners which was pretty good, think she retired a while back but ran against the useful Alabaq as a 2yo.

Martin
 
Yes but I only have 'normal' channels, and am at work, and could tape the last 14 minutes but annoying to have to miss the first 16, and racing now even worse cos of the b***** cricket! :angry:
 
Ali - that apprentice was fairly tasty B) - but the dark haired lad who was out with the main bloke - is he still in Lambourn? Our farriers apprentice is his doppleganger if so......
 
I missed this completely . Does anyone know if its on next week and I'll set the video ? Sounds like a good wee programme .
 
It's on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week (3.00 pm to 3.30 pm, BBC2). Then it has to give way because of golf's World Matchplay Championship and the final two episodes will be shown on the following Monday and Tuesday.
 
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