Robin Oakley

A feast of feelgood emotion

I doubt you could have had a better day’s racing anywhere than at Ascot last Saturday

One to watch: Bryony Frost clearing the last on Flemenstide to win the Molton Brown Novices' Hurdle at Ascot [Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images] 
issue 27 November 2021

Ascot’s image is all champagne and fascinators, high society and high rollers. Said Art Buchwald: ‘Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.’ But there is another Ascot — one entirely comfortable with tweeds, corduroys, cloth caps and woolly jumpers.

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