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Ask RP if they’ll give it the Video/ Audio treatment Pru and put it on website or maybe someone could arrange for Highflyer productions to come along and record it for screening on RUK
" TRF (Southern) do Cheltenham and the Universe" sounds like good entertainment to me
More an opportunity for a good old chinwag about Cheltenham, the universe and everything over a few beers, with perhaps a bit more focus to it than just a conventional p1ss-up.
…in essence, the same sort of set-up as we had for the TRF Awards brainstorming sesh a couple of months back. Do you have anywhere particularly already in mind, Pruf?
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PS If we’re honest, we all know that the real highlight during Cheltenham week is the 4m march of the living dead handicap chase at Hexham. A proper treat and no mistake!
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PS If we’re honest, we all know that the real highlight during Cheltenham week is the 4m march of the living dead handicap chase at Hexham. A proper treat and no mistake!
Jeremy
It’s always heartening to know that I’m not the only one who looks forward to these fine contests! Hexham Four Miler, Highland National at Perth, Veterans’ Chase at Cartmel…..jockeys in woolly jumpers, battered old horseboxes, ……Marvellous!
Amen to that, Rob. There’s not too many days on the calendar I enjoy more than the last Saturday evening in May – with the Veteran’s National at Cartmel and the Pertemps Trophy (Horse and Hound as was) at Stratford, what’s not to like?
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I may come along too if – a) I’m let out for the night (feasible), and b) there is a suitable train service from Northamptonshire to London (unlikely!). I too may be able to offer some minor pearls of wisdom on the various merits of the Foxhunters runners, if nothing else.
WEST BERKSHIRE RACING CLUB
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW NIGHT
WEDNESDAY 5TH MARCH
AT NEWBURY RACECOURSE
Guests include TANYA STEVENSON
Value Is EverythingSounds like a great idea Pru – an annual TRF Cheltenham Preview evening.
Can’t make it this time around but if it goes OK then we could do something a little more structured for next year and perhaps get a sponsor and a guest or two.
Arranging a forum chinwag date after some of the other preview nights would make sense – forumites could report back and compare notes?
I may come along too if – a) I’m let out for the night (feasible), and b) there is a suitable train service from Northamptonshire to London (unlikely!). I too may be able to offer some minor pearls of wisdom on the various merits of the Foxhunters runners, if nothing else.
I’ve been informed the winner runs tommorow HJ
I am hoping to be the guest of honour provided the North Britain who runs the site invites me!!!!
Hope you get an invite mansun and i hope someone can provide video.audio of the event as i be interesting in hearing yours and others thoughts on Cheltenham and the Universe
Do you have anywhere particularly already in mind, Pruf?
Well, as the previous Southern meeting could just about have fitted in a phone box, I had imagined a central-ish pub like the Angel off Shaftesbury Avenue (some of us have met there before).
However, in view of the extraordinary take-up already, I am now considering hiring out Earl’s Court, Olympia or the Millennium Dome.
Will give it some thought and post something definitive in a couple of weeks’ time.
In the meantime, the question must be asked, can we possibly compete with the rival attractions of Tanya Stevenson on the night of Wednesday March 5th?!?
mansun wrote:
I am hoping to be the guest of honour provided the North Britain who runs the site invites me!!!!I think we can safely say that would be very much long odds against.
– from another "North Britain" (aka Briton or SCOT, as we would prefer).
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Irish – presumably you’re referring to The Man From Slatt, which wouldn’t be a bad call at this stage given his recent exploits. The race tomorrow at Thurles will be the acid test for him though, as it represents a fair step up in class.
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