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Usually spend the 1st 2 days at home backing a few winners and losers and then meet up with a few old college pals for Stout and a few bets on the Thursday and then Friday spend the day hungover and backing lots of losers altough last year i got a lucky 15 up for the 1st time ever
This year though i’m heading over on the Monday so i’ll have a few quiet beers that evening and get up early Tuesday.Is it true you can land down to the course early morning and have a watch of the horses out for a gallop? I’ll be there Wednesday too and flying home Thursday morning.
Anywhere i should/shouldn’t go/do?
Monday
Start thinking about the four-mile chase at Hexham
Tuesday
Analyse the early decs for the four-mile chase at Hexham
Wednesday
Analyse the overnight decs for the four-mile chase at Hexham
Thursday
The highlight of Cheltenham week: The Four-Mile Chase at Hexham
Friday
Relax with my dog-eared copy of
"The Matmata De Tendron Years – A History of the Four-Mile Chase at Hexham"
Saturday
Sort my CD collection. Light dusting.
Mike
I think you have to get some sort of a ticket to see them on the track. What we do is go to the unloading area and walk up a bit to where they cross the road from the track to the stables;then you can get up close to the horses and do a bit of earwigging.
I sell toothpaste and deodorant to Ginger
I used to go every year with two friends. But one Gold Cup day back in the 90s had more than 60,000 there, and it was an ordeal rather than the highlight of the season.
Since then, I’ve been back just once to see Kauto make history in reclaiming the crown.
For a few years, instead of travelling to Cheltenham, we’d book a nice holiday cottage in Windermere. Watch the CH4 races then over to the pub for the last couple on RUK.
In the evenings, we had our pick of many good eating places. Very enjoyable and cheaper by quite some way than going to the meeting.
Fond memories. My first festival visit was in 1975 to see Ten Up land me a long term ante-post wager in monsoon conditions. They abandoned after the Gold Cup. The train trip home was spent drying out and smiling
I always book the week off work, and then sit glued to the tv screen from Morning Line to evening highlights, fuelled by tea, cake and home made soup. I don’t bet.
This year will be a bit different because my dear daughter has chosen to get married on Gold Cup day. The nerve!
I did go to the actual event once to watch Burrough Hill Lad win the Gold Cup, but it was so crowded, I didn’t really enjoy it, so I haven’t bothered since.I’ll be stooping in the betting ring.
Its the only option left after the last night out with Glenn.
This year I am on hols in Benidorm …so I will be sun soaking and have to miss it
shame
roll on the Craven
This year I am on hols in Benidorm …so I will be sun soaking and have to miss it
shame
roll on the Craven
When God created Man he created a creature with Sexual Prowess a creature who will suffer from HTS (Heavy tata Syndrome) if he doesn’t release his tensions regularly.Tensions of betting on horses causes testosterone to flow and this releases pheromones,a smell Women find sexually attractive.However if this Sexually potent individual doesn’t shower twice a day those pheromones that turn women on can just as easily turn them off.’Ginger Minger’ is not a phrase I use lightly.
It’s one three days in the year without a shower, it’s not going to hurt my "sexual prowess".
Not like your beer belly Gord, you ought to do some exercise! After a six mile run you’ll find those testosterone and pheremones have some effect on women, even for this "ginger minger"; let alone a "balding builder"! You’re just jealous I’ve got hair.
Value Is EverythingAlways book the full week off – this is like xmas week to me!
I live in Ireland and usually go over with and to friends in Liverpool on the Monday night. We go to the racing Tuesday and spend our day in Oneills on the wed watching the racing before getting the last flight home.
This year is slightly different.Monday
Christmas/Cheltenham eve. Try to relax all day but find myself reading every article, website, forum to see if I missed anything or theres any last minute news. Bed earlyish – alarm set for early flight to BristolTuesday
Fly into Bristol, train to Cheltenham for the first days races. Love being there for the roar. This is my 4th consecutive Tuesday. Late flight home.Wednesday
meet up with friends and watch in someones bigscreenThursday
meet up with friends and watch in someones bigscreenFriday
Hit the pub early – pints and gold cup day!Same as usual, polytrack.
Who is "polytrack"?
The racing surface at Kempton, Lingfield & Wolverhampton.
Get changed at work at 4pm on the Monday – finished for the week – and head straight from the office in Canary Wharf over to Paddington, meet the missus and a few mates and jump on the train to Cheltenham Spa. Couple of sneaky ones from the train bar.
Get the Queens hotel about 8:00, check in and off to the pub.
Wake up early Tuesday, shower and get dressed, binning the previous days underwear/Shirt to avoid carrying anything that either doesn’t contain alcohol or have Racing Post or Marlborough written on it.
Go down and have breakfast and be out and at the Landsdowne pub for 9:00 AM, meeting up with a bunch of mates from Birmingham.
Leave there in taxis about 12:30 and the rest of a day is a blur but somehow manage to get on a train bank to Paddington during the night.
Fall out of bed Wednesday morning and meet a couple of mates in my local, couple of wake me ups, place the bets and head back crates in hand to the house with a mate or two in tow (missus now at work rest of the week). Watch the racing, including the final RUK ones then missus gets home and pop back round the local.
For Thursday & Friday see Wednesday although I sometimes make a return trip to Cheltenham early Friday morning.
Bit this is a one off week and the missus knows that so it’s okay
Has been like this for 20 years now and worryingly I get my bonus each March, which is a seriously dangerous thing.
Lee
Finish up work Friday
Study all weekend
Monday afternoon drive to Stow on the Wold with 3 friends
Check in to holiday cottage
Down the pub for a few cheeky beers and always end up staying too late, followed by red wine back at the cottage
Tues morning a bit hazy, but get up for Morning Line and MASSIVE fry up – enough to get you through the day
Get a lift to the races with Tony are "chauffeur" (AKA husband of the cottage cleaner)
Arrive around 11.30, wander around course, Centaur for a pint or 2, tented village to buy a stupid hat or pink cords, pre-parade to see the Supreme runners
Up to reserved grandstand seats (expensive but worth every penny for the space and view), put placepots on, send 1 runner down to the betting ring, watch races x 7
After racing down to the Storyteller for dinner & red wine. Winner pays
Tony pick up around 8.00, back to cottage for 2nd half of the Champs league, more red wine and cheese & biscuits
Wed – repeat except different dinner venue
Thurs – repeat except different dinner venue & Europa league
Friday – drive to course, do not move from grandstand seat (except to see Gold Cup runners in paddock) area as way to busy
Home for about 8.00…knackered but already dreaming about next yearBest time of year.
Travel down Saturday to cottage which is hired for the week.
Racing Warwick Sunday, Stratford Monday and then 4 glorious days of racing at Cheltenham
Always go in Club, place is packed and you can’t move but I would not have it any other way.
If Quevega wins this year the roof will be raised.
I can’t wait.
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