never known anybody not like kelso call it a day.

Same to you and your good lady. You were missed at Great Yarmouth this year but pleased to hear you are venturing South in December if not in September.

Best - Ebor meetings back in early 80s - Sharpo, sluicing through the mud, Protection Racket getting me out of a hole in the ebor
Glint of Gold hacking up at an unbelievable 2/1 against when it should have been 2s on. Great days. Ayr gold cup when it was a Friday was also special they've runined it now packing it into a card full of more unrealistic handicaps on a Saturday. Been to a couple of Chelt festivals and least said about finding winners the better however did see Dawn Run and Dessie winning their gold cups the latter was most emotional ive seen a racecourse grown men crying. Beverley during a couple of summer holidays was also very enjoyable.

Worst Scottish Grand National day at Ayr - jesus wept my wife organised a weekend away for my 50th and her and my daughters went along too
they basically spent the whole day in total shock (we/they are not prudes or sheltered) - I drink but jeez this lot took it to several different levels and it was embarrassing to say the least, it still gets brought up to this day. Left before the bumper and I was winning

glentoby:
I'm not sure of the year but around 1996.
We were staying in Larnaca and that was the only 'Betting Shop' I saw. I broke two ribs almost as soon as I arrived so it was about ten days before we traveled anywhere else.

glentoby:

We had previously twice been to Paphos and liked it and once to Kyrenia in the North an ill judged place to travel to for a New Year celebration :-)
Apart from Turkish troops on every corner and shelled buildings in Famagusta and other places, power cuts every night we stayed in a hotel full of miserable Germans. They sat glumly through the gala dinner and departed moments after midnight without as much as Happy New year. They hardly spoke to each other far less to us. It was a problem getting to Kyrenia. We were travelling on Boxing day and I got a phone call just as I was leaving work on Christmas eve telling me that our flight had been switched from Heathrow to Gatwick. That actually suited us but when we got there we found that the airline had been unable to contact most of the passengers. They had to round them up at Heathrow and bus them over and we were five hours late in departing and not getting to our hotel until after 3 am. Changed rooms twice due to problems with the plumbing.   
Unfortunately our travelling adventures are over now so I can't take up your kind offer.

I noticed when we were in Malta that they seemed to train their Trotters on the roads.
It’s not age that has caused my problems but the effects of antibiotics I was prescribed for prostate and urinary infections. Refuse Cipro or Fluoroquinolones if they are ever suggested to you as they can cause a vast range of problems. Many are like a time bomb and happen long after the initial course of drugs and can be triggered by other drugs. After much pressure from sufferers of Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Syndrome the EMA (European Medicines Agency)  held an open conference in London in June attended by affected patients from all over Europe. As a result some versions of the drugs will no longer be prescribed and others restricted in use to more serious infections where no other drug will help.
In January all British doctors will be getting a letter with the EMA findings and patient information leaflets are being updated by the MHRA (The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK ) 
In my case each time I was prescribed the drugs I stopped them within a few day as I developed tendonitis. Each time it eventually cleared up but in May 2015 another medication evidently triggered what mystified doctors said was a form of neuropathy or even CMT (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease ) One Monday I was out for over five hours at a horse show, on the Friday out and about at the races for seven hours. Nine days later I was having difficulty in walking unaided.
This is the link to the EMA conference if anyone wants to watch it. It lasts for over four hours but can be watched in parts on winter days when racing is off. You don’t just need to be prescribed the drugs as they are used on animals and in fish farms so are in the food chain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vao8o5NGUc&t=4399s

When I was in my late teens early twenties, backing three winners at Fontwell and running along the centre of the course going mad when one of them won. My memory has gone a bit but seem to remember someting about the Duke of Albuquerque being there? The course had so much atmosphere back in those days, so many characters, but my favourite race track as such was Pompey Dogs, I loved an eveing out there & still miss it now

One of my best moments racing was being in Australia, I lived in Lane Cove, North Sydney and got a lovely cushy sales job with a car so I was sorted for the year,1993. Dermot Weld sent Vintage Crop down under for the Melbourne Cup. Lots of my work colleagues were punters and I spent the previous 2 weeks before the day of the race telling all who would listen to me that Vintage Crop was a good thing, a seriously top class horse running against the Aussie handicappers and he won sweetly enough and paid for my rent for a couple of months, happy days.

Been to flemington. a couple of times for the cup
too Overcrowded for me worse than g c day at cheltenham

Liked ascot near perth, nice and easy to get about, easy beer and food

In the states philadelphia park , welcoming and roomy
Tampa small but mobility ok lovely restaurent

Ireland you have to do ballinrobe and rosscommon
Tiny footprint racecourses
Kids betting on a one euro tote, full of farmers and dodgy bookies
Punchestown like a concrete housing estate
Clonmel great viewing some clever feckers about there !