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Jeremy

Thanks for the info on Easingwold, sounds like an interesting venue. I actually found some footage on youtube earlier today, I can see what you mean about the finishing chute!.

I hadn’t noticed the possibility of the Kingston Blount/Warwick double, I’ve not been to Kingston, shame it’s on the same day as Easingwold/Thirsk, but closer to home though, I’ll have to give that some thought……..as well as the other options you suggested.

A Marks Tey/Great Leighs double never really occurred to me I have to say. I’ve been to Marks Tey several times, but I was putting off visiting Great Leighs until they had built the permanent grandstand etc. Bit silly really, I never imagined I’d have a racecourse within 20 minutes, and yet it was there and I never went, but did days trips to Newton Abbot, Bangor etc in the meantime, something to do with the sand…………..

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Funnily enough, I never did Great Leighs either, despite living not so far away in Hitchin for its entire lifespan! Less a case of eschewing it completely, but rather of them never racing on a day when I didn’t have somewhere else to go (even when that meant Kelso on once occasion!).

Will drop you a line if I end up at Marks Tey, Higham, etc. this season – got allocated the first-named’s Easter Monday last year, and prospects of the same thing happening again this.

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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.

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