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01-06-2020, 02:02 PM
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Horse Racing And Snooker

Both started again, I'm sorted. ITV snooker from Milton Keynes starts in about 3/4 of an hour.
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01-06-2020, 06:15 PM
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Isn't football on again as well?

How they think they'll stop those blokes hugging, kissing, and leaping on each other's backs like a pair of mating frogs remains to be seen. They grab at each other all the time in that 'sport.'
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All sport is going to be a little weird until we get used it. Not seen any live racing, with no punters allowed on course, jockeys having to wear masks ITV will concentrate on the racing, not all the superficial fashion items, drunk punters gurning behind presenters.
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11-06-2020, 10:48 PM
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Final two playing, best of four frames to win. Luca Brecel from Belgium playing Ben Woollaston. Gives less known players a chance against those higher ranked. Woollaston won third frame with a second ton+break, got an unbelievable fluke on pink in second. Luca won last frame with a third one hundred break and tops the final group making him champion.
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12-06-2020, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups ->
Isn't football on again as well?

How they think they'll stop those blokes hugging, kissing, and leaping on each other's backs like a pair of mating frogs remains to be seen. They grab at each other all the time in that 'sport.'
It'll be behind closed doors...no fans....so no hugging, kissing, and leaping on each other's backs like a pair of mating frogs unless you are referring to the players
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Royal Ascot start Monday.

https://www.ascot.co.uk/royal-ascot-2020-racing

When Other Royal Meetings Weren't Quite the Same.
The “Black” Royal Ascots

Queen Victoria died aged 81 on January 22, 1901, bringing her then record 63-year reign to a close.

As the nation remained in mourning, Royal Ascot that year was held in a sombre mood with the Royal Stand closed and the racecard featuring a black border. Dressing in black was also the order of the day, although it was recorded in The Times that by the Thursday, when the Gold Cup was run, “a number of ladies who were in black on the first two days had assumed a more modified form of mourning, as there were many dresses of white, lavender and mauve, although not enough to impart any colour to the scene.”

The two World Wars

Royal Ascot was held as normal in 1914. However, it was just nine days after its conclusion on June 28 that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, setting in motion the First World War. Royal Ascot would not return until 1919. In the intervening years, the racecourse played host to a number of different functions including an army recruitment office, military hospital, medical supplies depot and a base for the Royal Flying Corps. A cinema for servicemen was opened on the Heath and made available to the public in the evenings.

Similarly, World War II resulted in Royal Ascot being suspended between 1940 and 1945, with the Grandstand providing accommodation for gunners of the Royal Artillery. Some of the Royal Ascot races were transferred to Newmarket during World War II, while The Jockey Club staged some fixtures at Ascot in 1943 and 1944.
 

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