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The turf

The small wonders of horse racing

Without the little tracks such as Warwick the racing world would be lost

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

Cheltenham, Ascot and Sandown Park are wonderful but without the little tracks racing would be lost. It was perishing cold — cold enough for brass monkeys to be keeping a watchful eye on their private parts — and the ground was heavy, but you could not have a better day’s racing than Warwick gave us on Saturday.

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