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I shall be there Adrian, and may even test my vertigo by venturing up onto the roof (as long as I have something to hold on to)
As long as that thing isn’t me, because I’m a dead cert to fall off the bloody thing…
…that is if I buck the five year trend and, shock, make it to the meeting for once.
See you there…
(And NOW I finish the thread and realise nobody’s falling off anything because nobody’s allowed on. They must have been warned I was going. Damnation! Falling off a stand at a point meeting would have been an awesome way to go!!!)
The pedantic point is correct, I’m sure, but the chap who posed the question was a spectator wanting to visit a point-to-point course in South-Eastern England, not someone who specifically wanted to attend a point-to-point at a course that was designated part of the South-East administrative ‘area’.
Tweseldown is about two miles outside Aldershot and the same distance from Fleet. I wouldn’t bank on buses on a Sunday, but at either destination (particularly Aldershot) it should be easy enough to get a cab.
I know that Godstone and Penshurst have stations, but you would have to check the distance from the actual course, as they are country stations in small settlements where you could be waiting a while for a taxi.
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Whats the Bexhill course like gents?
HJ – roof off limits this year unfortunately due to H&S. James is commentating from new position at the top of the grandstand (I think from near where the ladder to the roof was).
We’ll see you there and I think Zoz is coming too.
Enjoy, folks – still Black Forest Lodge for me tomorrow, weather permittingl!
gc
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.
Have fun….shall expect a report (a text from the beer tent going ‘p2p….wheeeey!’ shall suffice)
The pedantic point is correct, I’m sure, but the chap who posed the question was a spectator wanting to visit a point-to-point course in South-Eastern England, not someone who specifically wanted to attend a point-to-point at a course that was designated part of the South-East administrative ‘area’
Pedantry schmedantry, Marcus – one has to draw the line somewhere…
Be that as it may, in so far as a geographical South East can be quantified (which I suppose may be of more use than an administrative South East), there’s little harm in adding these dates to the previous list;Sun 07/12 Tweseldown
Sun 04/01 Tweseldown
Sun 08/02 Tweseldown
Sun 29/03 Hackwood Park
Mon 13/04 Hackwood Park
Mon 04/05 Hackwood ParkBarring any unforeseen circumstances, I should be at all three Hackwood meetings. But don’t let that put you off.
HTH,
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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 all – will try and check out a few of those in the coming months – hope some have train stations nearby too :)
The easiest station for a point to point is Charing. Ten minutes walk from the station. Get to the main road, cross at the lights, turn left and just keep walking to the roundabout and there it is. Turn right and the foot entrance is in the hedge on the left – gate to a footpath. Easy. Trains from Maidstone and Ashford hourly. i will be on the train from Victoria for the February meeting at least and probably Easter too.
Penshurst station is not the right one for that track it is Cowden Heath as the track is actually at a place called Chiddingston Hoath about three miles south of Penshurst village. I have not been but a contact on the Jumping for fun site put me right on it as I hope to get to the late April meeting.
Four words could describe the action at Cottenham today:
Wet, wet & ****** wet.
But it was still marvellous.
and HJ you missed the second division of the maiden where the only thing you could see were the tail lights of the cars leaving by the cattle yard!
James had to commentate on 2 runners (from the 2m 4f start) which were both wearing White, dark chevron, black sleeves – one of them went off in front and luckily we plumped for the right one (my eagle eyes spotted the hooped cap rather then quartered – phew!).
Good to see you and Zoz there plus various other point to point afficienados including Lydia Hislop making her first visit to the venue.
Jeremy – hope you had a great time at Black Forest – it couldn’t have been wetter than Cottenham where our racecards melted!
For all a lot of people I know who aren’t into this ‘horse lark’ would have thought me completely bonkers to have spent three hours getting soaked to the skin and frozen to the bone in a field in the middle of Cambridgeshire, I couldn’t have chosen to spend the afternoon in any better way!
Nice to see everyone there, hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!
PS – Good call on the commentating Adrian! Must have been damn near impossible, it was dark enough when I scooted off (lightweight that I am!) after Div I of the race!!!
Four words could describe the action at Cottenham today:
Wet, wet & ****** wet.
Two years running? Hugely unfortunate. My racecards still haven’t dried out from last year’s first meeting!
gc
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.
Good to see you and Zoz there plus various other point to point afficienados including Lydia Hislop making her first visit to the venue.
I see your Lydia at Cottenham and raise you Mully at Black Forest Lodge – delighted to catch up with her today at what is to all intents and purposes her local track. Sorry I couldn’t hang around longer after racing, Mulls – hopefully get longer to chat at Cheltenham in a fortnight.
It was a fine day at BFL, albeit a touch nippy and quite windy from the best vantage points. Viewing is good, but the biggest, best hill is some way removed from the finishing post, so I’m relieved someone else was on race-reading duties today.
Field sizes held up very well from the initial declarations (89 out of 126), with the mixed open attracting 16 starters alone. Prolific 2007-08 winner Little Ed opened his account for the new season in that contest, albeit heavily stoked throughout – excellent you’re-not-getting-away-with-this ride from Rhys Hughes.
Unfortunately former Noel Chance inmate Offemont met with a sad end in that race, one of two known fatalities on the card. In the biggest "no sh*t, Sherlock" moment of the day, meanwhile, Contraband emphatically failed to last the 3m trip on his pointing debut for JB Shears and Tigger Barnes.
Another result of note was former Albet Ennis gelding The Chisholm being punted in from 10-1 to 6-4 very late on to land the concluding long maiden – a sizeable gamble on a Welsh runner, and by no means the first at this venue.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)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.
And said Little Ed is the featured horse current on Mully’s homepage on her site,nice bright pair of yellow blinkers there grays!
Indeed, GD, and those blinkers are probably there for a reason. To his credit, though he seems to have gone well in them for much longer than a lot of horses do.
Here’s hoping Mully can get a photo or two up on this thread – it was certainly a day conducive to some nice shots at BFL yesterday.
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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.
Be that as it may, in so far as a geographical South East can be quantified (which I suppose may be of more use than an administrative South East), there’s little harm in adding these dates to the previous list;
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