GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES “Memories are like antiques, the older they are the more valuable they became.” Marinela Reka . During this difficult time with all point-to-pointing cancelled for the season, I […]
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GRANVILLE’S BETTING GOSSIP: DART VALE & HALDON HARRIERS AT BUCKFASTLEIGH ON SUNDAY 15TH MARCH 2020
Oh dear, so that’s it for the season with three months of pointing in our area still to go. No more point-to-points, no more betting gossip, racing suspended, the industry […]
REPORT: DART VALE & HALDON HARRIERS AT BUCKFASTLEIGH ON SUNDAY 15TH MARCH 2020
WRITTEN BY GRANVILLE TAYLOR “And whether we shall meet again I know not. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile” From Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Nobody knew as […]
RESULTS: DART VALE & HALDON HARRIERS AT BUCKFASTLEIGH ON SUNDAY 15TH MARCH 2020
Going Heavy (Fences 5, 12 & 19 omitted) Hunt Race (Sponsor Ashburton Motor Works) 1 Ragged Dream (Tamby Welch) 7-1 handy, pressed leaders last, fin well to lead last 100 […]
Granville’s Betting Gossip: East Cornwall Point-To-Point, Great Trethew, 8th March 2020
Punters should have sensed they were going to be up against it during the afternoon when the favourite in the opener (two miles flat race) got no more than 100 […]
Report: East Cornwall Point-To-Point, Great Trethew, 8th March 2020
WRITTEN BY GRANVILLE TAYLOR “Mud, mud, glorious mud. Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood…” Flanders & Swann It was a real Cornish mud bath at this lovely course. […]
GRANVILLE’S BETTING GOSSIP -WESTERN POINT-TO-POINT AT WADEBRIDGE ON SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2020
Mixed bag as pointing resumes: Six races, six bookmakers, one complete outsider wins and two odds-on shots beaten The relentless rain stopped just in time for the first race as […]
REPORT: WESTERN POINT-TO-POINT AT WADEBRIDGE ON SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2020
WRITTEN BY GRANVILLE TAYLOR “How like a winter hath my absence been from thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year…” Sonnet by William Shakespeare 1564 – 1615 Yes I know […]
RESULTS: WESTERN POINT-TO-POINT AT WADEBRIDGE ON SUNDAY 23RD FEB 2020
Going soft, heavy patches Conditions – veteran & novice riders (sponsor Hog House Animal Feeds Helston) 1 Raddon Top (Conor Houlihan) 5-2 held up, led 14th, driven clear flat 2 […]
GRANVILLE’S BETTING GOSSIP: TIVERTON POINT-TO-POINT AT CHIPLEY PARK ON SUNDAY 26TH JANUARY 2020
I knew it was going to be a dodgy afternoon when the 13 bookies (lucky for some) lined up in the pouring rain virtually marooned by a sea of very […]
