I’m heading off to the stunning Bangor-On-Dee (National Hunt Course) today in the hope of grabbing a few quality photos of AP McCoy and last years Grand National winning jockey Liam Treadwell. Both will be in action over the hurdles, interestingly AP is also riding in a ‘Bumper’.

Any good photos will make it onto my flickr photo profile it’s a mash up of all my photos, including many horse racing ones. The photo in the post was taken during my last visit to Bangor, it’s a great course for photographers to get racing shots on, it’s always fairly quiet and the jumps are well placed to easily accessible parts of the course to the general public.

Sad news in racing as the 1992 Grand National winner ‘Party Politics’ is put to sleep due to old age. Party Politics has a great chaser and had an enviable record in the National. Winning in 1992 with Carl Llewellyn on board and going well in the famous void race 12 months later before finishing second to Royal Athlete in 1995. He had 8 career wins and won over £250,000 for his owners.

Carl Llewellyn said of Party Politics: “He was a fantastic jumper of the National fences, and gave me one of the best days of my life.
“It was a real shame that he never got the chance to win back-to-back Grand Nationals, as he was going significantly better at The Chair in the 1993 void National than when he won it in 1992.”

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Yeats created history by winning his fourth Gold Cup at Royal Ascot today. Yeats went off as the 6-4 favorite with reports of multiple bets in excess of £25000 being lumped onto this superb stayer.

Yeats didn’t disappoint his backers or the Ascot crowd with another classy performance in the race. He slipped past the field and looked very comfortable on the run home. The win by Yeats will be a massive blow to bookmakers who are expect to lose millions in payouts to the heavily backed horse.