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Tag: Ascot Gold Cup

  • Sorry Ma’m – there doesn’t appear to be any racing on the TV in the Royal Box

    Sorry Ma’m – there doesn’t appear to be any racing on the TV in the Royal Box

    When you hear the words ‘Barbers Shop’, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Haircuts, obviously. Or possibly musical quartets. Though not necessarily those including Homer Simpson on the roof of Moe’s or Peter Griffin going around hospital wards. In this corner, mention of Barbers Shop evokes memories of what I think was Queen…

  • Dear British racing, do you remember Mick Winters?!

    What I think was a decade or so ago, Noel Meade used to have a weekly column in the Meath Chronicle. Generally, it was run-of-the-mill fare, reviewing his runners from the previous week and looking forward to whatever representatives he had forthcoming. For one issue, though, he didn’t mention any of his own horses. No,…