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Which Radio 1 Disc Jockey of the 1970’s, owned in the early 80’s one of the easiest winners you could see of the Morland Brewery Trophy at Newbury?
The horse was trained by Guy Harwood, ridden by Greville Starkey and later sold abroad for big money.
No Singing Detective, it was about the same time, think Rankin was a decent horse also trained by Harwood wasn’t he?
The horse in question was called Taher.
Let’s continue with an easy one.
Which was the last new racecourse to open its gates for business prior to Great Leighs/Chelmsford City in 2008.
I was thinking Taunton.
I’ll take a shot at WorcesterGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Not Worcester.
But, to employ the language of Private Eye magazine, the racecourse in question was not a million miles away.
In fact, the AA Route Planner gives a distance by road of under 10 miles from Worcester to the town where the racecourse stood.
Is this Pershore? – which I believe moved site (possibly in the early 1930s) only for it to close down a few years later? I believe the site is now the Pinvin trading estate as I used to drive past the turn off when going the “back way” from Cheltenham to the West Midlands when the M5 was choc-a-bloc.
Katie strikes again.
The answer is indeed Pershore. There have been two racecourses at or near the town. The first was at Weir Meadows which hosted racing for about 60 years before being abandoned because the site was prone to flooding. A totally new racecourse, more distant from the River Avon, opened for business in 1935. It put up the shutters in 1939 when the army set up a training camp at the site. The course didn’t reopen after the war.
Katie, may I suggest that if you don’t post another question within 24 hours then anyone may post one. If the thread lies fallow for another 24 hours after that then I’m quite willing to set another question myself. That way we can keep the thread from going defunct.
If anyone (especially Yeats who started the thread) violently disagrees with this proposal then please let me know in no uncertain terms.
Seasider,
Happy for you to oblige if you have a question line dup, as I have works Xmas do tomorrow night followed by a busy family weekend so probably won’t get chance to post again until Sunday evening.
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