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York,Newmarket (July and Rowley mile),Weatherby Doncaster,Thirsk, beverly,ripon,newcastle,wolves, southwell,catterick, ludlow,haydock,cartmel, perth,uttoxeter,stratford, sedgfield, newbury and sandown.
Deauville and Clairfotaine.
The Curragh, Arlington (USA)
wincanton salisbury cheltenham goodwood ascot kempton lingfield sandown york chester ayr newbury newmarket yarmouth cork leopardstown curragh garrison savannah deauville singapore
Kempton, Sandown, Windsor, Epsom, Newmarket (both), Lingfield, Brighton, Goodwood, Newbury, Cheltenham, Yarmouth, Ascot, Warwick, Ripon, Thirsk, York, Sedgefield, Doncaster, Wetherby
Leopardstown, Happy Valley, Longchamp and Chantilly overseas
not an anorak about this
Would rather turn up at a decent card at Sandown than trek to Folkestone to just say ive been thereCertainly visiting Plumpton and Aintree this year and about time i got down to Fontwell
and just maybe …Santa anita
………..except for the fact that Flat racing is complete and utter wa*nk, and an affront to the eyeballs.
That is an opinion – not a fact.
Granted ClintM, but how accurate and obvious should an opinion be, before it is accepted as fact?
Bump.
Rules courses now visited as at 12/08;
All NH ones (bar Ayr, Kelso, Musselburgh and Newcastle), plus a mere smattering of Flat ones. List includes Windsor and Wolvo when still jumps venues, but not Nottingham.PTP courses visited;
Ooh, now this list is growing a bit!
Ampton, Ashorne, Black Forest Lodge, Bonvilston, Chaddesley Corbett, Charm Park, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Cottenham, Dalton Park, Didmarton, Dingley, Dunthrop, Easingwold, Eaton Hall (now defunct), Garthorpe, Godstone, Hackwood Park, Higham, High Easter, Horseheath, Laleston, Lower Machen, Ston Easton, Thorpe Lodge, Upper Sapey, Ystradowen, plus plenty more I can’t recall just now.Next race visits; Wetherby 27th, Cheltenham January 1st, Tweseldown 4th, Barbury 11th – after that, who knows! I blimmin’ love racing, 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.
Since my original post I can add Not So Great Leighs in the UK so have done all 60.
Also The Curragh & Navan in Ireland as well as Easingwold p-t-p.
Hoping to do Leopardstown at the end of January.I’m a possible for that day at Wetherby but it will partially be dependent on the weather and whether we are at Sedgy the day before or not with Chamerion.
It’s been a long time since this thread was active. In that time I’ve added Aintree, Doncaster, Haydock, Newmarket (July), Sandown and Wetherby to my list. That’s a good 50% increase.
Since the first post on the thread, I’ve been to Warwick and then Enghien and Auteuil. The last two are the best of the lot – including Cheltenham, Aintree etc. even if there was nobody at Enghien.
I did notice an extraordinarly high number of stable girls leading up with various arm/shoulder injuries at Enghien.
We desperately need a "Butte En Terre" to replace one of the fences at Cheltenham.
My New Year Resolution was to re-visit every UK racecourse in 2008 and it looks as though I will have failed by one – thanks to our glorious weather.
As of today I have two outstanding – Bangor and York.
Bangor I intend doing tomorrow and York I missed due to the flooding and with no September meetings as "back up" this year I was stuffed.
I intend having another go at the whole lot next year where I will, hopefully, have Ffos Las added to the equation.
Also I want to try and do as many of the outstanding Irish courses next year as possible – I am ashamed to say I still have 19 left to do.
Go for it Paul. Got a few new courses lined up myself – mainly thanks to my love of AW racing.
Hoping to get to Auteuil again to see Denman get beat, Italy too for the big XC race at Merano (sp?) and finding out how close it is to Milan for OH’s shopping and the Velka in October
Only new course ive been to this year was Aintree. Which I wouldnt bother with again frankly
Still not been to Fontwell and Plumpton in the south and must do so soon….
In the north, Chester is the one i will visit this year
Im only bothered about wanting to visit courses that have some appeal.
Ive been to Haydock for a jumps meeting, York for the flat, Punchestown for a music festival, and Catterick for the market to buy a folding chair for another music festival. A day at the races is a good day out but I generally prefer the betting shop environment for betting.
I added Haydock to my list this year.
Hoping to add Sandown, Newbury, Pardubice and (remote chance this) Pau in 2009.
I will, hopefully, have Ffos Las added to the equation.
Yep, thee and me both! I’ve already cleared the June date on which the first Ffos Las meeting will take place. It does require us both to get an invite, I presume, with it being effectively a preview meeting, but I’ll worry about that minor detail a little nearer the time…
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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.
(remote chance this) Pau in 2009.
Are you anywhere near a Ryanair-serving airport, Grass? They fly to Pau, and it usually features as one of the destinations in their periodic, blink-and-you-miss-it, 1p return flight giveaways.
Failing that, you’ll just have to crash over at mine overnight en route to Stansted. If you’re good, we’ll go to Towcester or Huntingdon or Horseheath or High Easter the day before. If you’re bad, we’ll go to Great Leighs. And I’ll leave you there. Buwahahahaha…
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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.
Would rather turn up at a decent card at Sandown than trek to Folkestone to just say ive been there
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