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Travelled well and has stamina: Xander Brett on his mission to visit every British racecourse

Travelled well

A cemetery doesn’t make for an encouraging racecourse arrival. Redcar’s welcome, however, at the end of the driveway and back in the land of the living, was thankfully more vigorous.

Goodwood and inset: Inset -Xander Brett, ‘photobombed’ by The King on Oaks day at Epsom in 2024

It was jokingly suggested that I should have contacted the committee in advance, informing them that, by sheer circumstance, their venue was to form the final stop on my three-year-odd tour of the racecourses of Great Britain.
Well, strictly speaking, it’s three years and the liberty of including Wincanton, somewh...

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