We’ve got €10 on that little beauty over there, come on Eamon.
Almost a week on from the end of the festival, Cheltenham seems like a distant memory at this stage, but if you thought that it was the biggest racing event of the year, then you’re sadly mistaken.
That title surely goes to the Ladbrokes Barkingham Palace Gold Cup, the world’s first ever corgi race which was held this week.
In the race, ten competitive corgis battled it out not just to win the prestigious title, but to help punters determine the name and sex of the next Royal Baby, which is due around the end of next month.
As if to prove an old saying that involves the phrase ‘two flies going up a wall’, approximately 500,000 people will wage a bet on an unborn child, with Elizabeth currently attracting the favourite’s tag over here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB0LoiEarsA
Possibly as a result of a spectacular victory in the Barkingham Palace Gold Cup (see above), Alexandra is second favourite as far as the ladies are concerned, with solid, stiff upper lip, marvellous old chap James leading the market for the fellas.
The imminent arrival of a Royal Baby does some strange things to people.
Corgi racing isn’t a patch on this though to be fair:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx6u58_rabbit-racing_animals
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