For to see the races
Jul 30th, 2007 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsI know nothing about horses, never did and don’t suppose I ever will. They make me sneeze and my eyes run if I approach closer than a few yards, but I loved going horse racing. Well, what I really loved was the Downpatrick races.
The track was a real switchback course and the horses were mostly unknown and the jockeys would often not have been the people appearing on the racecards for Grade 1 races, but the Downpatrick races were great craic.
I could meet half my parish there and …