 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Horse Racing: SUMMER LOVING; RACECOURSE TOUR Newton Abbot.(Sports)
From:
The Racing Post (London, England)
| Date:
August 13, 2007
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Byline: David Ashforth
NEWTON ABBOT is famous for its visitors. In 1964, the Field Marshal The Lord Harding of Petherton turned up to open what should be called the Harding Stand but, sadly, is called the Public Stand.
If you are on an English racecourse, the last thing you want to be is a member of the public. It means you are in the cheap and probably nasty part. The Lord Harding must be turning in his grave (1989).
They were lucky to get him because, in 1956, while he was military governor of Cyprus, someone put a time bomb under Harding's bed, which failed to go ...
