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There is that, plus my nights away from home usually consist of a caravan, a 4ft bed shared with my partner, one lrg German shepherd, two springers & a cocker spaniel
Many thanks, I have never stayed at a holiday inn so don’t know what they are like, I suppose my budget for both of us is about £100 ish for the night with breakfast,
To be honest I’m not a hotel person so we don’t tend to use them very much but the last one we stayed in was The forest of Arden not far from the NEC, think its a Marriot hotel, that was very nice!
It was me who posted on another forum that she had been retired, for gods sake a made a mistake!
When someone says that "they have called it a day with Taj" I wrongly assumed she had been retired & after talking to a few people I was not the only one who thought this
It was my first trip to Sandown so couldn’t comment on what it was like before, but I must admit to being a bit of a sit on the fence type concerning kids, one half thinks that a race course is not a playground, But by not involving kids are we not excluding the future racing fans?
Saying that though it didn’t stop me having a laugh at the two 6/7 yrs olds that ran past me at the bottom of the stands in the prem enclosure, hit the grass slope & went arse over tit on it leaving them caked with mud
From the RP
A WEEK after his next-door-neighbour wrested the Gold Cup limelight away from him, reigning champion Kauto Star could be given an early opportunity to prize it back.
Wet weather in the run-up to Saturday’s Grade 1 Paddypower.com Tingle Creek Chasemay yet see Kauto Star attempting to show Denman, his Paul Nicholls-trained stablemate and Cheltenham Gold Cup joint-favourite, who’s boss, following the latter’s sensational Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup win last weekend.
The ground at Sandown looks set to be "well on the easy side" on Saturday – and Nicholls has already aired reservations about running Champion Chase prospect Twist Magic on a soft surface.
Should he defect, that could leave the door ajar for Kauto Star to bid for back-to-back victories in the 2m showpiece. William Hill go 8-11 ‘with a run’.
Nicholls said on Monday: "Kauto’s fine if we want to run him. I only put him in case it rained all week and the ground came up soft or worse. It was just to have the option."
On the day KautoStar was entered for the Tingle Creek last year, Nicholls and owner Clive Smith described the engagement as "tentative and "just a maybe".
However, 24 hours later Kauto Star was deemed all set to run, with Nicholls saying "we don’t want to mess about".
Unlike last year, though, Nicholls boasts a leading fancy anyway this time in the shape of Twist Magic, who was on Monday installed 3-1 second favourite, behind Voy Por Ustedes at 6-4, by the sponsors.
Nicholls, who also has Hoo La Baloo among the 14 entries, added: "If it was very soft I would be getting nervous for Twist Magic. It might be a Friday decision if the ground were testing, but I would definitely not run both him and Kauto Star. Hoo La Baloo will definitely run."TwistMagic won his prep race well at Kempton in November and if Voy Por Ustedes and Monet’s Garden run, it’s going to be a very exciting contest. Twist Magic is very well and we’ll be expecting a good run but I’m not going to say he’ll win.
"He has never run over fences around Sandown, but he’s a good jumper, so hopefully the railway fences won’t cause any problems."
Nicholls has risen inexorably in the jump trainers’ title reckoning over the past month, and another big-race win this weekend would see him power further clear of the chasing pack.
At the start of November, Nicholls lay in seventh place, but big-money wins for Kauto Star, Denman and Mr Pointment, among others, have resulted in him leapfrog six places in the championship table in four weeks.
I thought I read somewhere he is out for the season with a "Leg" although I might have that wrong
