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hi guys, just wondered if any of you will be attending Newmarket on wednesday/thursday this week? i’m lookin certain to be there at least one day!!
daiesy
Will be there on Wednesday
Thursday will be either there or Cheltenham – depends which has the better card.
It’s a week away from Newmarket and all other racecourses for me – including the weekend, as it’s Mrs Column’s birthday.
More than tolerant of the racing as she is (especially when out-tipping me), I don’t think that tolerance extends to standing in a muddy field at Kingston Blount for four hours by way of a pressie!
I’m definitely racing on Saturday 26th, though – I was due to race-read at Laleston the last I heard.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
GC,
That’s where I’m going wrong! "Love is…. sheltering in the commentary box at Higham whilst the wife and child are outside in the rain!"
I’ll be at Newmarket both days – we’ve had quite a few showers over the last 48 hours here but supposed to be drying up from here on.
Newbury Fri/Sat for me…anyone else?
Should be at Newmarket for the first day of the July Festival though.
Wherever there’s an Arab Race you’re likely to find me!Hope to get to Goodwood in September on a Haydock reciprocal but am thinking about doing the Northern Goodwood in July a.k.a. Hamilton Park for Fair Friday and the Scottish Stewards Cup.
At Sandown next Saturday, really looking forward to it.
I’m at Duesseldorf on Saturday for no reason! Basically, our horse (the one with Christian) was supposed to be running, so I booked my flights, got my suit cleaned, all ready to go – then I’m told he disappointed in work today and won’t run!! Still, I’ve spent 70 quid on the flights – might as well go, and as British racing is usually shown at German courses, I hope to catch the Scottish National as well!
Darren – AngloGerman
That’s where I’m going wrong! "Love is…. sheltering in the commentary box at Higham whilst the wife and child are outside in the rain!"
Hell yeah! We got it the wrong way round at Higham last Saturday – you and James should have been outside doing your stuff whilst me and her snuggled up in the commentary box!
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
MP, you may want to consider the following point to points not too far away from Northampton:
20th April Clifton On Dunsmore (Rugby) Atherstone 1st race 1pm
26th April Guilsborough The Grafton Hunt 1st race 2pm
4th May Dingley (Market Harborough) The Fernie 1st race 2pm
5th May Ashorne The Warwickshire Hunt 1st race 4pm
31st May Dingley The Harborough Race Club 1st race 2.30pmI think Guilsborough will be your nearest one.
Worth a slight trek would be Garthorpe (Melton Mowbray) on
27th April (The Quorn at 1.30pm), 11th May (Melton Hunt Club at 2pm), 24th May (Blankney at 2pm)Beaten to it – good work, Adrian!
Having been based in either Birmingham or Hertfordshire for the last four years I’ve visited all of the courses Adrian has listed apart from Guilsborough (cos they’re all in between the two) and would broadly recommend them all;
Clifton on Dunsmore – an historic course which operated under Rules (as Rugby) until the 40s or 50s. A fair-sized rectangular left-hand course with only minor undulations, the viewing from the public areas (on a slight slope) is good, and with the course hard up against the A5 access on and off the site is excellent.
Dingley – one of the busiest courses in the country, as well as one of the oldest (established 1931, I think, but I don’t have my Mackenzie and Harris in front of me). A narrow, undulating right-hand course with excellent watering facilities that generally guarantee quality and quantity when other courses cannot, it lies at the bottom of a steep valley whose slopes afford spectators one of the very clearest views of the action anywhere in point-to-pointing. The facilities (many permanent) are well above average for points, the trade stands are plentiful and the bookies comparatively generous.
Ashorne – a delightful parkland course only in use since the mid-1980s (much the youngest of the courses Adrian listed), but very much established now and pretty popular with all and sundry. Entirely for viewing purposes, it could do with losing a few trees now, though. It’s the local track of the Waley-Cohen family, so expect to see something like Irilut or Organiz staking a claim for an Open prize. Facilities are good, especially the huge paddock. There are far worse ways to spend a Bank Holiday Monday evening!
Garthorpe – a big, undulating right-hander which usually produces a decent surface and which poses no problems at all for spectator viewing (the back straight lying on higher ground is a big help in that regard). Not hard to get to from a few miles off the A1, though if the visit of Happy Jack and myself there in March is any guide, the driving skills of the locals appear to verge on the lethally incompetent!
Hope this helps,
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)PS HJ and Adrian are probably the kings of point-to-point races on here rather than myself – I just happen never to shut up about them!
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
hi guys, just wondered if any of you will be attending Newmarket on wednesday/thursday this week? i’m lookin certain to be there at least one day!!
daiesy
No not me, flat racing dosnt float me boat, anyway in the summer i race the whippets…….they allways beat me!!!
Well two good days racing at Newmarket – but back to normal tomorrow with an early flight up to Ayr for some jump racing.
Well two good days racing at Newmarket – but back to normal tomorrow with an early flight up to Ayr for some jump racing.
…its a hard life Paul
I’m going to Bishopsgate Fish Market next Monday, if anyone would like some haddock?
Zip
Having been based in either Birmingham or Hertfordshire for the last four years I’ve visited all of the courses Adrian has listed apart from Guilsborough
…and as chance would have it, Guilsborough is where I’ve been sent to work this Saturday (re-routed from Laleston). Spooky!
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
…and where Foxhunter winner Amicelli is likely to reappear in the Men’s Open.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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