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The Remount Depot : Shirehampton

10th November 2024 Going Postal 1513 Comments

The Docks at Avonmouth – near Bristol – were constructed in the 1860s, extended with the construction of King Edward Dock (opened 1908) & by the start of The Great War was considered one of [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 6

15th September 2023 Going Postal 2460 Comments

Introduction So, my short series of articles on the nags ends where it began, at Doncaster Racecourse.  In the first Chapter, you may recall I set out how my passion for horse racing began on [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 5

3rd June 2023 Going Postal 2508 Comments

The Epsom Derby Today sees the 244th running of the Derby Stakes run on the famous Epsom Downs in Surrey, with the thirteen runners guaranteed to make it a highly competitive renewal. The Derby is [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 4

5th May 2023 Going Postal 1644 Comments

Firstly, I hoped you thoroughly enjoyed my first few articles covering the two key national hunt festivals in the UK. Now that the dust has settled on the recent Aintree Grand National and a belated [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 3

13th April 2023 Going Postal 2196 Comments

It’s Saturday 5th April 1997. The horses are parading in the Aintree paddock for the third race, due off at 2.55pm. The field is headed by Make a Stand, who recently won the Champion Hurdle [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 2

14th March 2023 Going Postal 2972 Comments

Introduction Up until 2005, the Cheltenham Festival was traditionally held over three days.  The third day’s card was unquestionably the highlight of the meeting. Starting with the Triumph Hurdle, followed by the Stayers Hurdle and [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 2

11th March 2023 Going Postal 3109 Comments

Introduction Currently there are sixty racecourses spread across the United Kingdom and thus far I’ve visited around a third of them. Of the total, more than half cater for the faster type of horses bred [more…]

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This Sporting Life – Chapter 1 – Introduction

22nd February 2023 Going Postal 2561 Comments

This is the first of a short series of articles I plan to write for Going Postal that will coincide with the major horse racing festivals during 2023, starting with Cheltenham in mid-March and culminating [more…]

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Haymaking

8th September 2020 Going Postal 3985 Comments

When I was a little girl, the end of August was the time when it was back to school, Miss Lillicrap marching up and down the aisles between the desks and hitting the likes of [more…]

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