This is a fantastic mixture of strange, hilarious and adorable.
There was racing at Bath this afternoon, and the highlight looks like being this fantastic Shetland pony race.
It looks like the kind of thing you'd dream about after having a large cheese pizza late at night, with the tiny child jockeys on the stubby legged ponies galloping to their hearts' content.
In the end, the winner stormed clear in the final furlong after leading from post to post, with the little jockey even coming off the bridle towards the end.
All very adorable, although a few of them could have done with a whip.
This week on your favourite horse racing podcast, The Paddock, we’re joined by Oli Bell, Rishi Persad, Tom Stanley and a post-Cheltenham Dan Skelton. The panel dives straight into a festival debrief, including Dan’s winners at the festival and UK trainers closing the gap on Ireland. Dan also takes us through the not so small […]
This week on your favourite horse racing podcast, The Paddock, we’re joined by Oli Bell, Rishi Persad, Tom Stanley and a post-Cheltenham Dan Skelton. The panel dives straight into a festival debrief, including Dan’s winners at the festival and UK trainers closing the gap on Ireland. Dan also takes us through the not so small […]
A decision has been made. One of the biggest stories from Cheltenham this year was the row between jockeys Nico de Boinville and Declan Queally. After a false start during the Turners Novices’ Hurdle on the second day of the festival, De Boinville was seen berating Queally for taking his space on the inside ahead of […]