

A blog to showcase the social side of equestrianism, with some random horsey adventures in between!


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This is my first blog for @horseyhottie and as she couldn’t come to watch the Goddard girls Bon voyage across the channel to compete for Great Britain at Lummen and Antwerp international shows she wanted the full download……..something that I am very good at! Much to @foxinthecots disgust! Opps windy pops just likes to pop up and say hi from time to time.
We then trucked onto
On the Friday night the feature class was the Six bar challenge were Robert Smith and Michael Whitaker tied to win, by clearing 2.15cm! Robert then went for the world record of 2.17cm for an extra £25,000 if he achieve it….he failed!
Hope you enjoyed @theelfontour.... till next time!!

Being somewhat of a Twitter Novice, I am still rather surprised that my twitter drivel (or 'Twivel' as I like to call the bullshit that flows from my mouth) has been so widely received. So after much nagging from @horseyhottie and @nhtrainer, I am finally here attempting my first ever blog - Cheltenham Festival - what can I say? I LOVES it; the excitement, the build up, the outfit dilemmas (!) the parTAYs and of course meeting up with good mates to enjoy what is by far the best week of the year – even better than Christmas! Outfit planning started months ahead. For many punters choosing the beasts to back is top priority, however, me and the HorseyHottie ladies were deciding on tweeds, skirts and of course which muff to wear! @horseyhottie has started talking a good game now she is one of the Racing Welfare crew but we HH ladies know she put's more effort into her outfit than studying the form! Like I said planning started months in advance with trips to London for fittings at Katherine Hooker (always coinciding with a cheeky night out with the London ladies!). For me Cheltenham attire is about wrapping up warm, donning the tweed and a cracking pair of boots, HELLO, it’s not Ascot! Who wants to see girls huddling together to keep warm in summery dresses and strappy heels!
Unfortunately, I was still recovering from some killer superbug that knocked me sideways so this year’s festival was a little on the quieter side for me – or perhaps I’m just getting old! Nonetheless I was determined to go at least 3 days and made an executive decision that Wednesday would be my rest day – on the sofa with duvet and hot toddies on tap. Had to be on form for when the ladies arrived for the last two days.
The highlight of the week was seeing our friend @WTKJockey riding 'Time For Rupert' home after a cracking race and a great battle with Big Bucks in the World Hurdle. Up there with watching the Gold Cup, me and 'The Elf' (who is yet to learn of the wonders of Twitter – but I’m working on it) nearly peed our pants shouting and screaming for him. Amazing Will – well done! Next time I’ll bring some large pink and purple pompoms to help cheer you on! Wait I think The Elf has some big pompoms of her own already built in! ;-)
It was great watching the Gold Cup from a balcony of a friend’s box – down the way from the Royal box – (well we are practically royalty!) just fantastic!! A great view of the course and of course @paddypower’s PADDYWOOD sign just fab! What an exciting race, absolutely brilliant and well done to @jpfestival for backing the winner months in advance at 25/1 ,maybe I should take more notice of those tips than picking out tweeds!!!
Till next time,
FoxintheCots out..
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Firstly I shall apologise for the delay in this post, I've been waiting on some very special pictures that only just arrived!!.. I shall begin by taking you back to Saturday 30th of January whereby the HorseyHotties Possy were to reunite for a days racing at Cheltenham. My day had started early at 5am (I hadn't been up at that time since riding out at Clive Brittains), I was taking my 19yr old eventing school master down with me to Gloucestershire to start a new life as a 'happy hacker', I'm not a big fan of that phrase so lets call him a 'happy hacker with poke!'... (Punch) will most certainly give his new rider a lot of fun!
This leads me on nicely to our RacingUK interview, and that's what I love about a days racing, you are guaranteed to have a dam good time and just might get on the tele!! RacingUK had a very good looking male HorseyHottie with TV camera and 'What a Punt' sign, located by the paddock all day. So just before the last race FoxintheCots, flagged by her two HorseyHottie 'wingwomen', told Mr RacingUK all about her best 'punt'. Punjabi in last years Champion Hurdle, picked for the pink silks.. Punjabi came home to give FoxintheCots enough pennies to purchase a matching Mulburry diary to go with her Mulburry purse.. She's just far too cool for school,so if you see the interview, PLEASE let me know it was HILARIOUS!! I on the other hand have had little to no success on the betting front other than when Red Marauder battled in the muddy slop at Aintree back in 2001 to win the Grand National, I can still remember being on the edge of my seat willing him over every fence praying that he wouldn't fall!! Think I ended up with 50quid in my back pocket and back then I probably spent it on my pony.. actually thinking back to Pony Club days, the Katie Price Equestrian collection didn't exist so all my boys over the years have been saved the humiliation of being 'Pimped in Pink'!! Whoopsy daisy just had a big bout of verbal diarrhoea again.. So back to Cheltenham, I'd put a request out on the tweets for tips and the phrase 'I am not amused' comes to mind, I shall save those so called 'tipsters' from naming and shaming, but not one tip was on the money!! Bad form guys.. very bad form. However any future 'top tips' will be praised with HorseyHotties love and promoted heavily so tweet me your festival tips now!! Think that's just about covered everything other than I shall wish everyone a very happy Valentines weekend, and for all us singletons GET ON LINE, HorseyHotties.com has seen a serge in talent over the last few weeks.. Go on.. have some fun!! | Reactions: |



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