After a very civilized evening with the Jack Bevan (est 1897) organisation after Goodwood it was off to Salisbury for the opening meeting of their new season today. The sun shone and the crowd came out in force for eight ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – Investec Spring Meeting Epsom 20/04/16
Epsom’s first meeting of the new season was heaving with people and punters having it on, top marks to the racecourse for reportedly running an evidently hugely successfully advertising campaign to get the locals in. Let’s hope they loved it, ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – Kempton Park 01/02/16
Today’s meeting at Kempton was an additional ‘put-in’ meeting, that is one that’s been added to the calender to make up for meetings lost to the weather, info for the benefit of new readers. Given that, nobody was expecting a ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – The William Hill Winter Festival – Kempton -Day 2
This is now the ‘live’ home of my blogs but the archive can be found here www.simonnottracing.wordpress.com Day two of the William Hill Winter Festival is sometimes regarded as the the poor relation of day one but once again the Sunbury ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – ‘The International’ 11/12/15
This is now the ‘live’ home of my blogs but the archive can be found here www.simonnottracing.wordpress.com Those that watched the weather forecast and just wore their tweeds as I did could have been excused for thinking they’d made their first ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – Wincanton 19/11/15
This is now the ‘live’ home of my blogs but the archive can be found here www.simonnottracing.wordpress.com The weather was pretty miserable up at Wincanton but the regulars are a hardy bunch and a very respectable crowd dressed accordingly and turned ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – Wincanton 16/10/15
This is now the ‘live’ home of my blogs but the archive can be found here www.simonnottracing.wordpress.com I also write an exclusive ‘Tales’ for Racing Ahead Magazine each month, please support the magazine that supports me. It seems everyone missed Wincanton Races during ...
Tales From The Betting Ring – Kempton 09/09/15
Kempton’s press room was awash with nervous energy before tonight’s eight-race card. That’s obviously not unusual, who doesn’t get awash with nervous energy before an eight-race card at Kempton? That said, tonight was special as three hopeful would-be commentators were ...