Showing posts with label Cheltenham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheltenham. Show all posts
Friday, 9 March 2012
Hillside Horse Gets a Jockey...After 3000 Years, Thanks to Irish Bookmaker Prank
England's Uffington Horse is a 3000-year-old iconic carving into a chalky hillside. Was it designed by the ancient Celts as a sign to the gods, like some sort of equestrian crop circle? No one really knows. It's always been there, galloping freely across the vast clear hillsides.
Until this week, that is, when the local people woke up to find a jockey on the horse. and reins.
The amazing
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Cheltenham's the Place to Be Today
Last year at Cheltenham, the celebrity riders, trainers and familiar faces got together and recorded a song about the race meet that they all love so much for a charity fundraiser.
UPDATE: Watch the video of today's unbelievable Cheltenham Gold Cup on YouTube!
In Gloucestershire, England they run a four-day National Hunt race meeting that is like no other in the world. It's like Saratoga on
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