Epsom Trainers Open Day - Open Day 2010 now 22nd August

 

 

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This year's Open Day is on 22nd August 2010, following a similar format to previous years with horses at exercise on the gallops, and yards opening in the morning and then various attractions on the racecourse in the afternoon including: jockeys vs trainers camel race, shetland pony derby and pony rides. Please download the flyer for more information.

 

Tickets will be on sale at the Main Ticket Hall at the racecourse all day, starting from 8.15am, between 8.30am and 9.30am at the Gallops, stalls and schooling demo and from 9.45am to 1pm at all the yards that are opening.

Please click here to download flyer.

 

 The events were:

-A hot shoeing demonstration by Steve Bates and his colleagues (horse kindly supplied by Glynis Riddle) – sponsored by NESCOT

-Pony rides and ‘dress up as a jockey’ (horses kindly supplied by Sandra’s Riding School) - sponsored by Connolly’s Red Mills

-Terrier Derby – sponsored by Omni Productions Ltd – which, as always, provided a raucous spectacle for all!

-Stunt Riding Display – sponsored by Ermyn Lodge Stud

-Horse-drawn fire engine and pump display

-Falconry display – sponsored by Friends of Tattenham Corner Stables

-Inter-yard Human Table Football Tournament - sponsored by Racing Welfare. Teams from 5 Epsom racing yards and a team of Epsom Racecourse Groundsmen competed in this, seeing who could score the most goals in 5 minutes. After a hard fought game the winners were Michael Attwater’s Tattenham Corner Stables’ team, with Roger Teal’s Thirty Acre Barn team the runners up.

-Parade of Retired Racehorses (horses supplied by the Ex-Racers Club, the Racehorse Sanctuary and Emma Curley) – sponsored by the Friends of Racing Welfare.

-Display by the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery – sponsored by David Lloyd Leisure, Epsom. We are very grateful to the Troop for attending and for their provision of an informative and interesting one-gun display, which culminated in some very loud gunfire!

-Jockeys vs Trainers Camel Racing – sponsored by AIS Fire & Security - a hysterically funny race comprising a jockeys’ heat, a trainers’ heat and a final race between the 1st and 2nd of each heat. The participants were:

Jockeys – Colin Bolger, Kieron Fox, Evan Lopez & Ian Mongan

Trainers – Michael Attwater, Les Montague-Hall, Pat Phelan and Roger Teal

All riders were dressed in authentic Arabian attire and a coin was tossed to ensure fairness of camel allocation. The final race was won by Roger Teal, with Les Montague-Hall second.

A big thank you to all the jockeys and trainers who took part.

-The ever popular Shetland Pony Derby – sponsored by Sunderlands Bookmakers. Holly Osbourne, aged 9 won the race riding TANGIES SOVEREIGN, sponsored by Mrs Alicia Aldis (who was also the sponsor of last year’s winner!)

Chris Lane, of Lane Bros kindly acted as the day’s official bookmaker, taking bets on both the camel and Shetland pony races.

As well as all these events there were also a large variety of tradestands housed in and around the Duchess’ Stand providing something of interest to everyone, a children’s funfair, bouncy castle, bucking bronco, and a mysterious bronze jockey statue that if you watched long enough you might have seen move

To finish off the day, the prize presentation and raffle draw took place in the Winner’s Enclosure and saw the winners of the Sunderlands Shetland Pony Derby, the Racing Welfare Inter-yard Human Table Football Tournament and the AIS Fire & Security Jockeys vs Trainers Camel Race presented with their prizes by the sponsors of each event and Don Churston, Chairman of the Epsom Training & Development Fund.

The 2009 Open Day was the biggest yet, and included many more attractions than at previous events. The Epsom Training & Development Fund will benefit greatly from the proceeds, enabling more investment to be made into the welfare of racing stable staff in Epsom. Work has already started on the 2010 event so watch this space…….!

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