Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei, Led us too this perfect day. Marx, Wood, Wei and Christ, All but Wei were sacrificed. Wood, Wei, Christ and Marx, Gave us lovely schools and parks. Wei, Christ, Marx [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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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