A great morning out at The Gallops at HollywoodBets Kenilworth this morning. Ostensibly to watch one particular horse, but it was just a chilled morning out with some drinks and some bacon rolls, while the horses do their thing along the track there.
Taking photos of a ton and a bit of horse running directly at you at 60kph through the heat haze is never hugely easy, but I actually quite like this all action shot of all eight (equine) legs all airborne taken while they were about 200 metres out.
It’s just for exercise and familiarity with the surroundings for the horses, so there’s no real competition here, but you know that the jockeys don’t want to come in second on any of their rides, so the speed is very real.
I’m not heading back to the races in the foreseeable future, not least because the next meeting there is The Met, and I haven’t got a stitch to wear.
(I know, it’s gruesome that someone so handsome should care, but I do.)