My Race Days

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Eliza and 8 year old Beth pick a horse at the Cheltenham festival as the horses go to post...

Taking place in the week and a schoolday there aren't too many children at the Cheltenham festival but there are the odd few. It can be a great educational experience for children to attend such a racing event so Beth&#...

 
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Eliza interviews Lystra Adams one of the best dressed ladies in horse racing

Lystra is a Naomi Campbell lookalike model and a frequent finalist in fashion competitions at the races up and down the country. Last year she won the Aintree award and a modelling contract with Matalan and £5 thousand worth of...

 
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Eliza interviews Swansea City footballers at the Cheltenham festival

Eliza from lovetheraces website is asked along to the restaurant at Cheltenham as a guest of fellow Swansea resident and friend Salvo Giannini. Salvo once bought a horse called Mudahim and decided he had spent too much money on it...

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"What would you say your favorite thing to do in the entire world would be?"

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"That's a difficult one. There is so much I enjoy! Racing, good food, travelling in foreign countries, good bands, fashion, meeting people - I guess my favourite thing is to combine all!! Variety is the spice of life! x"

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Festival Fancies and '40's and '50's Fashion; Horse Racing in Cinema; DNA research exposes a scandal; Hats; 'Pin Ups' and Jockey's Tattoos!

As those following my blog will know last year at the Cheltenham Festival I won the fashion award for best dressed on Ladies Day. A number of people have asked me to do something on vintage fashion so I shall...

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Part 2: Eliza takes us through her Cheltenham Festival fancies Thursday & Gold Cup day

My fancies for day three and four of the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. I am dressed like this because I have just modelled for a 1940's pin up painting ; see the results on my blog. Also I review some 1940s...

 
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Part 1: Eliza takes us through her fancies at the Cheltenham festival 2012: Tuesday and Wednesday

I really don't like giving tips. I am not a tipster; but my facebook followers keep asking me what I fancy; and know I have been known to give some long priced winners so here goes; excuse my nerves! ....

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Festival Trials and Racing winter blues; The Undefeated and the Vanquished; Interview with ‘Bridgy’; Newmarket and White Turf; and latest Fashions

Eye of the Beholded: Big Bucks Well winter has finally arrived with a bite and many meetings have fallen to snow and frost. Luckily we managed to get Cheltenham Festival Trials meeting on the 28th January in before the cold...

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Part 2 David Bridgwater, trainer of the Giant Bolster, interviewed by Eliza

Part 2 of the interview with former jumps jockey now trainer David Bridgwater; whose horse The Giant Bolster won impressively on Cheltenham's festival trials day; and who may now go to the Gold Cup....

About Eliza Cook

Hi! I'm Eliza. I am a Geographer by profession, and am currently studying for a PhD in Geography at Swansea University. I will be investigating ice core records from Greenland pretty soon. But you don't want to hear about those. 

On top of this, during a year out, I fell into working as an in-house model for Agent Provocateur. Strange but true! This experience heightened my appreciation of fashion - especially the eclectic and eccentric fashions of the races.

I've been a racing fan for two years. I love all racing, but a day at the jumps is where I really feel the most excitement. Having grown up in Gloucestershire, with two great racecourses on the doorstep - Cheltenham and Chepstow - it is a wonder that I didn't find racing sooner.

I've been privileged to be a part of some of the 'behind the scenes' elements of racing, from photographing frosty morning breeze-ups to attending the post Cheltenham Festival jockeys' celebration in the Weighing Room!

I am thrilled to be a 'Voice of the Races'. To me, the most striking feature of racing is the accessibility of participants - and the fact that everybody attending has a part to play. A day at the races has it all; wonderful horses, spectacle and fashion, in an adrenaline soaked atmosphere where people from all walks of life come together in mutual appreciation of the sport.

I can't wait to tell you all about my experiences at the races, the people I meet and the adventures I have, as well as the fashions I encounter and the stories I uncover.

I hope you enjoy it! 


 

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