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Anyone fancy it. For those in the south east the trains leave Victoria as follows.
Leave 9.37 arrive 11.06
Leave 10.37 arrive 12.06
First pony race 11.15, first point to point 12.30 so you would be cutting it fine with the later train although the track is only about ten minutes or so walk from the station. Come out of the station down to the main road, cross at the lights, turn left along the main road and the track is in front of you at the roundabout. The entrance is up the road that comes in from the right and there is an obvious pedestrian entrance about half way up. Viewing is good in many place but is in my view best from the bank by the number board, above the parade ring.
Unless Weatherbys Chase asks me to go to a different meeting at short notice, I’m a certain starter for this meeting, Bob. Will PM you my mobile number once I’m 100% sure.
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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.
Where exactly is Charing?
Deepest, darkest Kent, just off the A20.
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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.
Thanks GC.
Off to Godstone P2P at the end of next month – that’s for sure and will look into getting to Kent from Brighton this weekend
It should be a good card at Charing on Sunday, and there should certainly be a competitive lineup for the Mens Open, which is the latest leg in the grandiously titled "Order of Excellence" series of races. Quick tip – try and form your own opinions if having a bet, as the racecard formguide will be dreadful (and it’s not even one of mine….)
I’m going to try and get myself to a South-East meeting at some point this season, but this weekend it’s Horseheath for me on Saturday, where I’m making my debut as a solo race-reader. On Sunday I shall be recovering from the experience.
Quick tip – try and form your own opinions if having a bet, as the racecard formguide will be dreadful (and it’s not even one of mine….)
Noted – the loose-leaf update is coming with me, then!
this weekend it’s Horseheath for me on Saturday, where I’m making my debut as a solo race-reader. On Sunday I shall be recovering from the experience.
Ach, you’ll be fine, sir! Just remember everything I told you when we did Garthorpe last season… and then remind me again, cos I’ve forgotten the lot.
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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.
Off to Godstone P2P at the end of next month – that’s for sure and will look into getting to Kent from Brighton this weekend
Godstone’s a very decent little track, although it’s only possible to see all the fences at once if you take yourself way out into the middle of the course. Not a place I’ve race-read at so far, and not one I’d necessarily want to do a 16-runner novice riders’ Confined at, but a fine spot nonetheless, and surprisingly rural-feeling given that it’s hard up against the M25.
Oh, and in the latest edition of Mackenzie and Harris they’d like to draw to your attention the fact that the bouncy castle there is shaped like a groovy blue octopus.
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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.
HJ, I’ll see you at Horseheath, hopefully with all the family if weather OK.
I’ll be perched up the ladder or in the bookies getting the prices so should be easy to find.
You’d be welcome to meet up with us after the last to go through the results if this is a help. We work out where everybody finished, pulled up etc and decide on an SP for the papers etc.
I also expect you to go and stand in the middle of the crop field, opposite the winning post, a la Mackenzie!
I’ll be perched up the ladder or in the bookies getting the prices so should be easy to find.
That ladder gets more lethal-looking every year! Don’t envy you that gig.
You’d be welcome to meet up with us after the last to go through the results if this is a help. We work out where everybody finished, pulled up etc and decide on an SP for the papers etc.
Those guys are a huge help! Saved my neck at Higham last April when my papers got blown away in a rainstorm halfway through race-reading a Maiden (and whilst Adrian was snug and warm in the commentary box, the rotter.
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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 IS,
If you were thinking of getting the choo-choo train from Brighton to Ashford, it arrives at 8 minutes past the hour, and the train for Charing leaves on the hour.
I’ll just pop out to the train station to check the engineering works for this Sunday for the rest of you.
Gerald
Well that was a waste of time, no info as not on direct route from Dover. I’ll check tomorrow morning at Ashford.
Have an intensive PTP weekend planned at Whitwick Manor (on Ledbury-Leominster road) Sat and Eyton-on-Severn on Sun. Should be at least 17 races to savour.
That’s no way of an exaggeration, Grey – Whitwick frequently attracts the most runners of the entire season!
Work may yet have a say, but I’m intending to do a ptp double-header the following weekend – Bishops Court or Howick on the Saturday, followed by Kingston St Mary or Garnons on the Sunday. No hard preferences there, as they’re all courses I’ve yet to visit, but the omnipresent prospect of someone shoving Bishops Court owner Oliver Carter (yes, that one) in a wheelybin again may prove too great a lure to resist.
I blimmin’ love pointing, me.
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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.
Thanks GC.
Off to Godstone P2P at the end of next month – that’s for sure and will look into getting to Kent from Brighton this weekend :)
Looking at Godstone next week as well. Train from Victoria to Oxted and either leg it or get the bus along the A25 from the station (the more likely option)
It should be a good card at Charing on Sunday, and there should certainly be a competitive lineup for the Mens Open, which is the latest leg in the grandiously titled "Order of Excellence" series of races. Quick tip – try and form your own opinions if having a bet, as the racecard formguide will be dreadful (and it’s not even one of mine….)
I’m going to try and get myself to a South-East meeting at some point this season, but this weekend it’s Horseheath for me on Saturday, where I’m making my debut as a solo race-reader. On Sunday I shall be recovering from the experience.
Went to the first Horseheath meeting. It is a good track but the sun did cause problems to everybody at the two fences down the side in a couple of the races. Might need a filter on the binoculars. All the best for the calling though, hope it all goes well.
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