If the Sport of Kings is finished product, then the sales ring is coalface.
DALETTA
AT this time of year wherever racing folk foregather the forthcoming Grand National will sooner or later crop up in conversation. Everybody has a National story to relate, many about wagers won or lost.
‘Brigid or Brigit – the name both of a Celtic goddess and of a Christian saint, with consequent confusion of traditions.
A chance encounter with another erstwhile amateur rider at Punchestown revealed that his ancestors had bred Birdcatcher.
Publication of entries for the 2012 Cheltenham Gold Cup inevitably inspired an array of retrospective observations.
DALETTA
A correspondent writing from Australia’s sunny shores confesses that his preference has always been for racing cars rather than racing horses. However, he does recall a huge silver trophy won at Punchestown by his grandfather, William Lingard Amphlett Goulding, or perhaps his great-grandfather William Joshua Goulding.
Familiar with the Morgiana Hurdle, that Grade 1 staged at Punchestown recently?
Have you sometimes glanced down through the runners for a big race and thought how fitting it would be if such-and such were to win?