REPORT: THE CORNWALL CLUB POINT TO POINT AT WADEBRIDGE – 8TH DECEMBER 2019
GRANVILLE TAYLOR “At last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain…..” Extract from a poem by W S Merwin, 1927-2019 There was ample lashing rain, not to […]
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RESULTS: CORNWALL CLUB POINT-TO-POINT, WADEBRIDGE, 8 DECEMBER 2019
RESULTS – CORNWALL CLUB 8 DECEMBER 2019 Going: Soft Veteran & Novice Riders Conditions (Sponsor Helen Humfrey, Humfrey Small Traders) 1 Peterbrown (Holly Anne Drowne) 33-1 good hdwy three out, […]
GRANVILLE’S BETTING GOSSIP DUNSMORE CLUB, SILVERTON 17th NOVEMBER 2017
BOOKIES 3 PUNTERS 3 – Score draw Firstly, the organisers deserve much credit for getting this meeting on at this new course, having battled to defeat the recent very wet weather. The jockeys I spoke with […]
REPORT ON THE DUNSMORE CLUB, SILVERTON SUNDAY 17TH NOVEMBER
The wheel is come full circle. I am here ~ Lear. William Shakespeare What you mean Mr Shakespeare is that it has only been 22 weeks since we last got together in […]
DEVON & CORNWALL AREA AWARDS 2019 – FINAL STANDINGS
LEADING LADY RIDER JG Kellock Memorial Trophy Millie Wonnacott 39 Jo Supples 30 LEADING GENTLEMAN RIDER Peter Pearn Memorial Trophy Darren Edwards 118 Will Biddick 117 LEADING […]
GRANVILLE’S BETTING GOSSIP – TIVERTON STAGHOUNDS POINT-TO-POINT, SUNDAY 9TH JUNE 2019
The Devon & Cornwall bookies normally provide a strong betting market and the Tiverton Staghounds fixture was well up to standard. There was some entertaining jousting between the layers and […]
REPORT – TIVERTON STAGHOUNDS POINT-TO-POINT AT BRATTON DOWN ON SUNDAY 9TH JUNE 2019
WRITTEN BY GRANVILLE TAYLOR “You never tire of the moor. You cannot think of the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.” […]
RESULTS: TIVERTON STAGHOUNDS POINT-TO-POINT AT BRATTON DOWN, SUNDAY 9TH JUNE 2019
Going: GOOD, GOOD TO FIRM IN PLACES HUNT RACE (WINSTON PINCOMBE LAND ROVERS) 1 Lawsons Thorns (James King) 8-11 fav made all, drew clear flat 2 Cloudy Music (Darren Edwards) […]
RICHARD BARBER
Richard Barber, one of the most successful point-to-point and hunter chase trainers in Britain from the 1980’s until he retired in 2014, passed away peacefully at home on 7th June aged 77. Based at Seaborough, Dorset, apart from […]
DEVON & CORNWALL AREA CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019
LEADING JOCKEYS – DEVON & CORNWALL AREA CHAMPIONSHIPS – UP TO & INCLUDING EXMOOR MEETING (AFTER A RECOUNT) MEN Darren Edwards 110 points Will Biddick 110points Bryan Carver 74points Darren […]
