My dad, who was a meek, mild and delightful man, was a five Shilling punter on a Saturday who worked in the City of London. I first went to the Festival actually when I was 19 and a friend of dads had a wonderful box which he couldn’t use. Gordon was at Martin Pipe’s and worships the ground he walks on, so he will find that race as important to win as a Gold Cup, so that is one of interest. You suspend ‘normal behaviour’ in several ways: money ceases to have any value; it may as well come out of a Monopoly box; and if things go wrong you, just go and get some more out, because it’s Cheltenham week and it doesn’t matter!

I have one or two people that I talk to and some people that I listen to - including Patrick Mullins whose son is a great friend, so we will have a con flab. I loved Yorkshire – and Yorkshire people – and I found all the stereotypes to be completely false,” said Down who chose to live at Buttercrambe near Stamford Bridge because of its closer proximity to Malton’s gallops, the region’s racecourses – and the road to jump racing’s spiritual home in the Cotswolds. PPB Counterparty Services Limited, having its registered address at Level 2, Spinola Park, Mikiel Ang. After the Gold Cup I had about three people ring me up and tell me they had had the best day’s betting of their lives so they didn’t know it was meant to run in the other race! uk has been a home to passionate debate and intelligent discussion for horse racing enthusiasts since the year 2000.We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Champion Hurdle or one of the handicaps because the handicaps are contested with a ferocity and usually at a pace that is kind of frightening to watch - and they just go off like hell out of the night; so much so, that we’ve had changes in the field sizes in recent years. Describe all the feelings the Festival bound jockeys, trainers and owners experience as this week approaches?

Sir Alastair Down, Industrialist who masterminded the rescue of Burmah Oil in the 1970s and steered it back to financial health," Daily Telegraph (5 November 2004), 29. Ok judging by the other forum topic about him there are some people who do not like him but seem to read his columns. Well I love jump racing in particular but my favourite four days of the year is definitely Cheltenham. In 1945 he resumed working for Anglo-Iranian and was based in Iran until 1947, and then in London until 1954.From 1922 to 1927 he attended Edinburgh Academy, and from 1927 to 1932 attended Marlborough College. I imagine either Willie Mullins or Gordon Elliott which is hardly big news, I mean Gordon is running 60 horses and Willie will probably have 50. Like when Desert Orchid won the Gold Cup, I’d had my boots on the second placed horse, Yahoo at 40s - but he jumped the last with a big leap and I didn’t utter a word for Yahoo because I was yelling for Desert Orchid and that is what it does to you. This is a great read and although it is a collection of his racing post articles it makes really great reading.