GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – TORRINGTON FARMERS
“The roar of the race-course died behind them, in front were their fates, they rode to find them….” John Masefield, 1878 – 1967, poet laureate from 1930 – 1967 So […]
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A report on a past Point-To-Point meeting in the Devon & Cornwall area
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – TIVERTON STAGHOUNDS
“Over 1000 feet above sea level with grand view of Exmoor,but grazed by sheep with resulting hazards for unsuspecting racegoers and falling riders” MacKenzie and Harris – Hunter Chasers & […]
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – EXMOOR
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882 The Exmoor Hunt was started […]
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – SOUTH TETCOTT
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. Bryant McGill, American author, “Voice of Reason” I was looking […]
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – AXE VALE HARRIERS
“The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.” The Two Gentlemen of Verona […]
GRANVILLE’S REMINISCENCES – LAMERTON
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
