Monday 20 May 2013
This afternoon's meeting at Lingfield goes ahead after the track passed a 7am inspection.
The track was forced to cancel meetings on Friday and Saturday due so snow, but clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross and his team now have the venue fit for racing.
He tweeted: "Racing goes ahead @LingfieldPark today. -7.6C overnight."
Portentous or not, as a prelude to the 2000 Guineas earlier this month a TV network chose to broadcast the climax to the 1984 edition of the opening colts' classic – reason being that that race (as well as the 1971 victory of Brigadier Gerard over Mill Reef) is generally regarded as its historical gold standard.
Voleuse De Coeurs and Missunited, first and second in last year's Irish Cesarewitch, are set for an intriguing rematch in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan today.
Trainer John Murphy's phone has been ringing off the hook since the impressive victory of Big Time at Naas on Wednesday evening.
Portentous or not, as a prelude to the 2000 Guineas earlier this month a TV network chose to broadcast the climax to the 1984 edition of the opening colts' classic – reason being that that race (as well as the 1971 victory of Brigadier Gerard over Mill Reef) is generally regarded as its historical gold standard.
Voleuse De Coeurs and Missunited, first and second in last year's Irish Cesarewitch, are set for an intriguing rematch in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan today.
Trainer John Murphy's phone has been ringing off the hook since the impressive victory of Big Time at Naas on Wednesday evening.
Actor Edward Furlong has been arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order filed by his ex-girlfriend.
TODAY
President Obama apparently has his own Hollywood-inspired aspirations. According to a nugget buried in a New York Times story on Thursday, Obama has been telling aides that he is tempted to pull a "Bulworth" – that is to make like Warren Beatty's liberal senator character in the 1998 movie of the same name by going rogue and saying exactly what is on his mind regardless of the political fallout.
THE former preparatory school of former Miss World Rosanna Davison and her father Chris De Burgh, the oldest in the country, is beset by financial difficulties amid fears about its future, the Sunday Independent has learnt.
When Carey Mulligan ditched the Tiffany spangles and Prada sequins of her screen role in The Great Gatsby in favour of a baggy jumper and the dingy folk music venues of the new Coen brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, it seemed like a comment on this year's Cannes film festival.
Orla Brady has revealed how filming the new series of Poirot was tricky as almost every character has a different accent.
Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed he doesn't mind living his life in the public eye.
JANE Given and her footballer husband, Shay, were famous for raising funds for charity.
The Big Bang Theory star Simon Helberg has said the show feels stronger than ever, as the sixth series ended on US screens.
Alesha Dixon proved a hit with the male contestants in this week's Britain's Got Talent auditions.
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