A Royal good time

LONG BEFORE JOHN MAJOR AND DAVID MELLOR appeared at Stamford Bridge wearing matching scarves and when most football fans thought “Nessun Dorma” was a Japanese SUV, there was another sport that brought the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy: horse racing. The gee-gees has always been the sport of kings and of dustmen. Go to any meeting and you will find toffs, tinkers and everyone in between rubbing shoulders. Most have a flutter (with marginally less corruption than your average general election) and there is every chance the richest will leave poorer while the poorest pick their way home with pockets packed. Racing, especially down in the bookies’ ring, is remorselessly egalitarian. That is not to say that racegoers do not have their own places and spaces. The…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2024

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