Sharing her carriage with Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, she led the royal procession uphill on the mile-long racecourse straightaway as if they were on an escalator.
An ideal location for top-speed runs, Bonneville is a mystical place, a miles-long natural racecourse covered with a layer of white salt deposited when an ancient sea dried up.
The New Yorker, May 18 , 1968P. 157 Very few men have been on the racecourse as long as Max Hirsch, who is pushing eighty-eight and going strong.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, May 18 , 1968P. 157 Very few men have been on the racecourse as long as Max Hirsch, who is pushing eighty-eight and going strong.
Interviewer: 'Which is your favourite racecourse?' Piggott: (long pause) 'Newbury.' Interviewer (pressing): 'Is this because of the setting, the ground, the gentle roll of the course?' Piggott: 'No, it's nearest home.' He may have been a man of few words but most of them were well judged.
As for Wrexham, it was not that long ago that the Racecourse Ground looked destined to be bull-dozed for flats and the team consigned to history.
Geoffrey Martin is not the only one at the racecourse with a long face.
Their chief executive, Rod Findlay, says that the club has a solid, long-term future at the Racecourse Ground.
Of course, Long Run, trained by Nicky Henderson for racecourse chairman Robert Waley-Cohen, and the mount of his amateur jockey son Sam, is hardly a new boy.
The second event of American racing's prestigious triple crown (preceded by the hugely well-attended Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs two weeks ago, which was won by three-year-old Super Saver, and completed at the Belmont Stakes in New York next month) is held at the Pimlico racecourse, whose infield has long-enjoyed a reputation for a boisterous day out.
It's Monday so it has to be Windsor, except it will be run in the afternoon and not the evening, which the racecourse is famous for – those long balmy summer evenings now consigned to the memory banks.
