Flat Season Showdown

The first weekend of September is one of tradition for sports fans. If you're Irish, contingent on your disposition, you are either making your way to Croke Park for an All-Ireland Hurling final or making your way to the leafy suburbs of Foxrock and Leopardstown racecourse for the Irish...

Friday Aug 01, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 8

Glorious Goodwood

I would wager that the person responsible for attaching the prefix "Glorious" to the race meeting now known as Glorious Goodwood did so without accusation of overstating just how magnificent a place Goodwood really is. Basking in wonderful sunshine at the height of the summer months,...

Tuesday Jul 01, 2008

published 3 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 7

Bookmaking - A Journey Through Time

Horse racing first originated as a leisure pursuit of royalty, through which local earls and lords could pass away their time; long, sunny afternoons on the heath, the best horse blood the respective lords had to offer, pitched against each other in a head-to-head battle for the bragging rights...

Friday May 30, 2008

published 4 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 6

Great Expectations

April 2008 will bring with it a new dawn in British horse racing. For the first time in 80 years, race goers in England will welcome the opening of a newly built racecourse, Great Leighs. Situated in Essex, Great Leighs has been built to exploit a geographical anomaly in the British horse racing...

Tuesday Apr 01, 2008

published 6 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 4

Flat Out

At a glance, the flat-racing calendar appears to be a familiar journey for a flat-racing fan. As with somebody who travels the same road over and over again, they become familiar with certain landmarks, hitching posts, and twists and turns. The flat-racing year is one such journey. The journey...

Saturday Mar 01, 2008

published 7 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 3

The Greatest Show on Earth

Ask a racing fan when his wife's birthday is, and he may have to pause momentarily to assure himself of the correct answer. Ask him when the Cheltenham racing festival takes place, and you can be certain of a swift response: mid-March. Cheltenham racecourse is composed of an outstanding...

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