Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Pat 
I was out at the races with a friend of mine who’s a bit of a novice recently. As he expected, he found a lot of it a bit overwhelming. There is a great deal of information to take in and it’s hard to learn it all except by experience, but one thing he did …
I took my son out to the races for his first time the other day, and he had a great time watching all the horses. I had a bit of a bet on a couple of the races while we were there and he was really curious about how it all worked, so I did …
My family and I were out at the races the other day, and they’re all quite new to it. I’ve been doing it for years, and just felt like introducing them to one of my hobbies. One of the things they’ve been struggling with is all the strange jargon and abbreviations which, honestly, even I …
The family and I were watching a horse race on TV the other day, when suddenly one of the jockeys stopped his horse in the middle of the race. The announcer then said that this particular horse had been ‘pulled up’. Everyone was then asking me what this meant, or why it would happen. I …
Horseracing can be a confusing world of jargon and vocabulary that most of us wouldn’t understand at first. It’s such an old and storied tradition that knowing the ins and outs of it can seem esoteric and confusing. While watching some British horseracing on TV with my son the other day, he heard one of …