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The Grand National – did your Dad ride in it? Did you win like Guy Opperman?
It’s something to remember back to distant off Grand Nationals but another to have a photo of your Dad riding in it! 60 years since my dad rode in the 1966 #GrandNational as an amateur (white colours jumping the chair … Continue reading
We’ve gotta horse!
The Pension PlayPen is putting together a band of brothers/sisters to buy one and a half legs of a young German racehorse. The horse is called Moonlight Camp which should satisfy on a number of diversity grounds. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Ascot, France, Gold Cup, Horse, national hunt, pension playpen, pensions
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Why there is nothing- nothing- like the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival
On Tuesday March 11th, 45 members of the Pension PlayPen group will embark a London Double Decker bus at Paddington, drink and sing our way to Prestbury Park on the northern outskirts of Cheltenham and spend an afternoon in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Champion Hurdle, Champions Day, Cheltenham, England, London, national hunt, pension playpen, Tony McCoy
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Join us at Cheltenham in March for the National Hunt Festival of Racing
You are cordially invited to join our house party during the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival between 16th and 19th March 2010. Continue reading