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Leopardstown Christmas Meeting
If Nixer can break the rules, I will too.
The French guinaes/Prix Lupin meeting.
3 group 1s in an hour and an early(ish) season chance to see top European 3yo’s in action.
Also not crowded so you can get around easily and there’s no problem getting a good view of the races (except for the sprint).
All this for 4 euros.
Beat that, England!
Steve
Ill break the rules aswell. Melbourne Cup week at Flemmington. The Aussies know how to organise big sporting events like no others. Quality!
Del
When I was at Sedgefiled there was a Short Skirt competition and Bingo
Fantastic! As Peter Kay would say
I voted Grand National for a number of reasons.<br>a) its a great meeting<br>b) its near my house<br>c) it brings all the scouse women racing<br>d) i love it<br>e) its pretty easy to get a job at.
Martin
Aintree is a flagship meeting, but I can’t help but feel that it isn’t always looked upon as one.
The quality of the racing is tremendous, some of the most valuable races of the season are contested at this meeting, many of them with graded status and four with Grade 1 status.<br>The mildmay course rides very quickly. The 2 mile chasers tend to scorch grass when they go round there, it’s wonderfully exciting and it provides a stern but fair test of a horses jumping ability.<br>Three races are run over the Grand National Fences across the meeting, culminating in what I cosider to be the most exhiliarating event on the racing calendar, the Grand National.<br>The 2m 4f Championships are held at Aintree each season, the Melling Chase has been won by Champions such as Viking Flagship and Martha’s Son, and the Aintree Hurdle by Istabraq, and probably the best 2m 4f hurdler in Britain for a very long time, Morley Street.<br>There are four valuable novice hurdles, all graded, one with Grade 1 status and over various distances. Not to mention two classy novice chases, and a valuable novice handicap.
The fact that there are only 2 weeks between Cheltenham and Aintree this season is not a positive thing and I hope the three week gap can be restored as soon as possible. <br>I also concede that the meeting can be hazardous from a betting point of view, with lots of horses having run at Cheltenham and it can be hard to gauge just how much the festival exertions could have taken out of them.
However, this meeting is still the second biggest of it’s kind in Britain and I for one look forward to it enormously.<br>
Agree totally Suedehead.<br>Whats all this about a 2 1/2m G1 chase at Cheltenham, theres already a Championship at Aintree.
Cheltenham for me, no doubt about it. Three days of sheer excitement and emotion. Nothing else comes close.
The Malt quiet, surely not, it only needs 5 people before its full… its totally the wrong pub to have in the middle of a racing village!!  Saying that it does have a good atmosphere – even if you cant move! (im just attempting to find the pic I have of it from last years henessy)
the Blower is probably best when theres a do on, the party after Be my royal won that was the best ive ever been to.
Edit here is said photo *hope it works*
(Edited by Katy at 12:47 am on Mar. 23, 2004)
As an annual member I have to vote for Glorious Goodwood, although not just for that reason.<br>Whilst I love watching the Cheltenham Festival on the telly I could not stand going as the crowds would make it unbearable for me, drunks, pushing and shoving and not being able to watch the racing are not my idea of fun.<br>Similarly Royal Ascot. Ignorant of racing drunks and women posing for the cameras also do not appeal.
I like to enjoy my racing in relative comfort and with like minded knowledgable people and Goodwood membership gives me that.
One other meeting that I also love is the Hennesy weekend at Newbury.
John.
That’s why it was quiet. It was full, but STILL quiet :)<br>But it looked so quaint, which is what I go for in a pub. There’s a nice little pub in Chipping Camden called The Bakers Arms. Between Cheltenham and Broadway. Crackling log fire, wooden beams. Very quaint, about the same size as The Maltshovel :)
<br>chipping campden between cheltenham and broadway??
have u moved it since last friday then
cheltenham<br>then royal ascot<br>then the hennessy for me
if i could include leopardstown i would put the xmas meeting there in 3rd place and the hennessy meeting in 4th place
"chipping campden between cheltenham and broadway?? "
… if you take the scenic route :biggrin:
It’s actually just past Broadway as the crow flies, from Cheltenham. It depends on if you go via Stow on the Wold, or thru Winchcombe. I, invariably, take the scenic route through Bourton on the Water and Stow. I take in as much of the Cotswolds as I can when I go down there. It’s beautiful country.
<br>rd
i agree with you its a very beutiful part of the country
broadway and winchombe being very nice
<br>and the short cut to the track avoiding winchombe also very scenic (and cuts out the invariable traffic jams at festival times)
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