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The turf

The poetry of Bryony Frost

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

Hearing that the Queen has both a real and an official birthday, a small boy asked the obvious question: ‘Does she get two lots of presents then?’ Horses, too, have an official birthday: no matter the month in which they were foaled, they all become one year older on 1 January.

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