National Hunt Racing for Stornoway...
Posted: Friday, 31 March 2006 |
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Hot on the heels of the announcement that Donald Trump is to build a championship golf course and hotel in Aberdeenshire comes another shot in the arm for the North of Scotland. The Horse Racing Levy Board and the Tote have backed the plans of local businessman Calum Piggott and his cousin Donald McCririck to build a horse racing track to stage both National Hunt and Flat meetings on Lewis. It will be an all weather track probably on a ten furlong circuit and will utilise the Dell fank site which has excellent chemical toilets and a perimeter fence recently erected. All the local churches have given their blessing to the proposal on the basis that anything that keeps the punters out of the bars in Stornoway has to be a good thing. It is envisaged that the track will open sometime in 2007 and will be called Sandwick Park. Catering rights have already been awarded to the local 'I can't believe it's not Guga' of Habost and MD Angus Grebe told local reporters how proud he was to get the contract hard on the heels of the Dell Fank Dating Extravanza. The only note of dissent came from a Jeremy Godwin who has handcuffed himself to the ferry railings in Stornoway as a protest about the encoachment on the coomon grazings of South Dell. 'The habitat of the screwtop warbler will suffer untold damage,' he told the reporter from the 'Avian Times'. Several thousand Lewis citiznes have signed a counter petition drawn up by Donald McCririck saying 'Bollocks we want flat racing and we want it now.'
Posted on calumannabel at 22:37
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Won't it clash with the proposed casino in Laxay?
hamish stringfellow from aspers cottage Laxdale
Will there be tote bags for us all Calum?
Annie B from the usual
Not THE Jeremy Godwin of Drovers Lane, Penrith?
Flying Cat from Orkney Mainland
The very same Godwin.
calumannabel from Penrith services M6
Heavens to Betsy. More folk in Stromness hid behind their sofas on getting advance intelligence of Mr G's arrival on the Ola, than if the Man from the Pru had been imminent. Famed in song and story from Muckle Flugga to Swona!
Flying Cat from Orkney Mainland
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