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Cheltenham and Champions League

I was in no hurry nor enthusiasm to post on golf after the weekend as to do so would be to hear the bleating of that bore, the unlucky gambler. My two picks for a top 5 in Thailand – Joost Luiten and Benjamin Herbert – finished outside and Retief Goosen whom I fancied for a top 10 [...]

March 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton Races

I do not believe I have ever posted on one of my sporting passions, horse racing. Yesterday I had a meeting with the event executive who last season was mine hostess at the Players Club Bar of Sussex CCC  and was universally popular for her cheerfulness and friendliness. Not unnaturally she [...]

February 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

The road to Damascus

An extraordinary thing happened yesterday – I placed a bet on a horse and won money as a result … well not quite. I should perhaps explain. There is no particular reason for this, but horse racing and betting are two pastimes to which I have never been attracted, even before I learned how the [...]

February 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A night at the races

The sports editor is very keen that we do not concentrate on our sports alone. Nonetheless I was surprised on the first day of Wimbledon to be told that if I wanted I could join the National Rust party headed up by Bob Tickler on tour in the west at Windsor for the traditional Monday evening event. [...]

June 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s not to like?

We sports lovers live in a golden age. There is a surfeit of sport going on in the world and modern technology renders it available to viewers and listeners in a manner of which previous generations can only have dreamed. When it comes to presentation, things have changed much in the last seventy [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The sporting and betting weekend

As when Rory won his first Major, the U.S. PGA, which was over shadowed by the London Olympics, his fine performance to dominate the Dubai tourney was eclipsed by Andy Murray contesting the Australia Open. I flitted between the two but when the Murray challenge faltered and failed, I concentrated [...]

February 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Steeplechasing v flat

With the Albion away at Derby it was an opportunity on a cold but clear Sussex day to watch the steeplechasing on channel 4. I have always preferred that to the flat: the jumps provide an extra dimension; the bravery of the riders in one of the most dangerous particapating sports is something to [...]

December 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Grand National Men

I can claim acquaintanceship with two of the key personalities of this year’s Grand National. The first is Lord Daresbury, effectively Lord Grand National. He was at the same college as me at Cambridge although I did not know him well.  He was Peter Greenall then, the heir of the brewery [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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