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HOME PAGE EVENTS DIARY CLUB HORSES HOW TO JOIN PHOTO GALLERY CONTACT US	Ten To Follow Results Table Speaker Evening The Adlestrop Club has been trying to organise a January/February event but the weather has scuppered a few of our ideas. However the Club is always keen to support Adlestrop and culture and therefore all members are invited to a speaker evening in Adlestrop Village Hall on February 16th starting at 8pm. The speaker is George Fiend, who will give a humorous and musical look at the book, Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. There will be baked potatoes and fillings following the talk and wine will be available. Members of the Adlestrop Club are welcome free of charge, whilst guests will be charged £10 per person. Please let us know by no later than Friday 10th February if you would like to attend.   A QUESTION OF SPORT   This year's Adlestrop Club Question Of Sport will take place at Chipping Norton Golf Club on Thursday 1st March starting at 7.30pm. Once again team captains will be John Inverdale and Mark Pougatch with their celebrity teams, whilst quiz master will once again be Robert Cooper.   It is always a fantastic evening. Teams of four are welcome at £15 per person for non members (Adlestrop Club members are free) which includes sandwiches and there will be a cash bar.   If you do not have a team we can put you into one on the evening. There will be a charity raffle in aid of the Wooden Spoon.   Please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to attend and no later than 22nd February. This will take the place of our February event.     CHELTENHAM PREVIEW – book early!   We will hold our annual Cheltenham Preview evening on Monday 5th March in Adlestrop Village hall starting at 7pm. Once again it will be an all star affair with John Francome and others on the panel.   Food and drink will be provided and tickets are £20 each for non members. A great investment if past performances are to go by.   This event sold out last year so do let us know as soon as possible if you would like to attend.   STOP THE SHOW   Stop The Show appears to have come out of the race well at Lingfield and will be entered for Plumpton on Monday in the 3 miles 2 handicap chase rated 0-95 run at 3.40pm.   We will confirm his participation on Sunday morning. 10th January, 2012 Wine Tasting Evening We are delighted to announce the Adlestrop Club Christmas event is a ‘Wine Tasting Evening' on Monday 12th December in Adlestrop Village Hall starting at 7.30pm.   The Oxford Wine Company will be supplying some excellent wines and delicious Christmas nibbles will be provided.   As ever, Adlestrop Club members will be free of charge, whilst non members will be charged £10 to include entry to a competition to win an excellent case of wine.   Please let us know no later than Monday 5th December if you would like to join us. 24th November, 2011 10 To Follow Competition We are delighted to announce details of our Adlestrop Club 10 National Hunt Horses to Follow competition – kindly sponsored by The Oxford Wine Company.   HOW TO ENTER   Choose 10 National Hunt horses in training (with any trainer) and email us your selections. You will get one point for each winner on your list.   It is free entry and the lucky winner will win an excellent case of red wine courtesy of The Oxford Wine Company.   The competition starts on Hennessy Day which is the 26 th November and ends on 28 th April 2012.   Please let us have your entries by the 20 th November.   Good luck.   Saturday A great morning was had by those that attended the Adlestrop Club ‘morning on the gallops' on Saturday. Around 35 members enjoyed bacon rolls in the village hall, before watching Stop The Show work well on the gallops.   Those that attended were given their complimentary Adlestrop Club 2012 diary, thanks to Richard Belcher of Hound Promotions. For those of you who did not attend and are also not able to attend the quiz on the 18th November, please let us know and we will send a diary on to you.   Stop The Show is in good form and may be entered in the following races:   13th November Fontwell handicap chase 2 miles 6 16th November Warwick handicap hurdle 2 miles 3 20th November Towcester handicap hurdle 2 miles 5 20th November Towcester handicap chase 2 miles 6 20th November Towcester handicap chase 3 miles     Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the General Knowledge Quiz on the 18th November in Adlestrop Village Hall (details below). Please let us know as soon as possible if you can make it.   November Event We are delighted to announce our November event. We are having our annual General Knowledge Quiz on Friday 18 th November at 7.30pm in Adlestrop village hall. Adlestrop Club member, Charlie Allan will be quiz master this year due to the fact he normally wins the quiz whatever team he is in. Teams of four are required, but if you do not have a team we can put you in one on the night. Adlestrop Club members are free of charge, whilst guests and non members are £15 to include fish and chip supper and refreshments. Please let us know if you are able to attend no later than Friday 11 th November. October Event Stop The Show appears in very good form and is now increasing his cantering. We are hopeful of getting him out in a hurdle or chase sometime in October when the ground eases.   For October Adlestrop Club event, we are staging an open morning on the gallops on Saturday 29 th October where Club members will be welcome throughout the morning from 7.30am onwards to watch the horses exercise. Stop The Show will be exercising second lot at 8.45am. Refreshments will be available in Adlestrop Village Hall throughout the morning.   Please let us know if you are able to attend by no later than Monday 17 th October for catering purposes.   Looking forward to a successful season ahead.   Stop The Show Stop The Show has started steady cantering following his summer break. He is looking particularly well and we will build up his exercise over the next couple of months with the hope of being on the track sometime in October.   We are planning to have a morning on the gallops for the Adlestrop Club sometime in October but in the meantime please do not hesitate to come and visit him if you can.   Details of our September event will be sent shortly.   Polo & Cricket The Adlestrop Club had a fine day out at the polo yesterday. Our next event is the Adlestrop Club cricket match at the Adlestrop ground at 2pm on Monday 8 th August. Club members are invited to attend a light lunch at 1pm and be refreshed throughout the match, which will hopefully end in a Phillips victory over the local team around 6pm.   Please let us know no later than Monday 1 st August if you are able to attend.   18th July, 2011 July Event We are delighted to inform you of the July Adlestrop Club event. We are intending to spend an afternoon at Cirencester Park Polo ground on Sunday 17th July, to watch the ‘Town Cup Final' polo match.   Drinks and light refreshments will be provided and we intend to meet at the ground at 1.30pm. The website is www.cirencesterpolo.co.uk   Please let us know if you would be interested in coming by Monday 4 th July. Guests of Club members are welcome at £15 per person.   Royal Adlestrop This year's Ladies Day at Royal Adlestrop was once again a great success. For those of you who did not attend, the tipping competition went to George Kay, with second and third places going to his sister and father - a rather annoying result for everyone. Last year's winner Heggers, was close behind the leaders along with the trainer. Thanks to Heggers for turning the Fred Cooke Mug into a wonderful trophy, by having it mounted on a wine box.   Many people made a great effort with their pink charity shop items. The ladies all looked wonderful, whilst last year's winner Al, won the worst dressed prize with an engaging pink tutu. The best dressed went to Eric Painting with his pink waistcoat, which was worn to Ascot the next day by the trainer, thanks to an incident with a glass of red wine on the Tuesday.   John Salmon the bookie, this year made a small profit to make up for last year's financial disaster and has kindly sent a cheque to the Sue Ryder charity.   The penalty shoot out was a competitive affair with our guest of honour, Father Martin having three attempts all of which proved he was the original left footer.   With a jolly sing song to end, many thanks to everyone who helped make it such an enjoyable day and we look forward to next year.   We will be in touch soon with details of the July event. Stop The Show Stop The Show appears fine this morning after his run yesterday.  He didn't appear to let himself down on the ground therefore bar significant rain very soon, we will put him on his holidays.  As he has proved at Plumpton and Fontwell this season, he can be a competitive fun horse when there is give in the ground.  Thank you to all who came to the picnic yesterday, we had a jolly time in the middle of the course and let's hope we can return there when the ground is more in his favour. Will be in touch soon. 30th April, 2011 Stop The Show and Cheltenham Preview Stop The Show finished third yesterday at Ffos Las.  Richard Johnson reported he travelled and jumped well before standing off at the open ditch and leaving his hind legs behind.  Richard reported that following this mistake he didn't travel as well and may have saved a bit for himself.  Richard thought we should consider putting some headgear on him in future.  He appears fine this morning and we will see how he comes out of the race before deciding on our next target.  Thanks to everyone in the Adlestrop Club who supported last night's Cheltenham Preview.  Hopefully an entertaining evening for all and hopefully members will be much richer by the end of next week.  The panel's Festival naps are as follows: Choc Thornton              Medermit Andrew Tinkler               Binocular Rick Allen                     Anquetta Phil Smith                     On The Fringe John Francome             Junior Richard Phillips             Poquelin Will be in touch soon with details of our next Adlestrop Club event. 8th March, 2011 Question Of Sport Last night was the annual Adlestrop Club Question Of Sport. Celebrity teams led by John Inverdale and Mark Pougatch contested a fun evening of questions set by Adlestrop Club member Eric Painting. Among the celebrity teams were Mick Fitzgerald, Cornelius Lysaght and Andy Lloyd, whilst Robert Cooper as ever did a sterling job as quiz master. The Pougatch team beat the Inverdale team (which included yours truly) by one point. A remarkably close contest and as ever went right down to the wire. The picture round is always a favourite among guests, and when it came to picture 42 many in the room thought it was a young Didier Drogba. There was much amusement when it was announced it was Serena Williams. We look forward to next year's contest. 18th February, 2011 Upcoming Events STROLL ON THE WOLD On Thursday 27th January we are holding our Stroll On The Wold which was postponed in December.  This should be an entertaining evening meeting up at 6.45pm in The Talbot in the square in Stow on the Wold.  Teams of four will be sent off with clues of which pub to visit and which drink to drink in each pub.  We will meet up back at The Talbot for a finger buffet at 9pm, where the winners of the competition will be rewarded.   Non members are welcome at £10 per person.  Please let us know if you plan to attend as soon as possible. QUESTION OF SPORT On Thursday 17 th February at Chipping Norton Golf Club, we will hold our annual Question Of Sport with a 7.30pm start.  We are delighted that John Inverdale and Mark Pougatch will again captain the celebrity teams and Robert Cooper will be our quiz master.  Teams of four are welcome at £15 per head for non members, which includes sandwiches and there will be a cash bar.  If you do not have a team we can put you in one on the evening.  This year's charity will once again be Racing Welfare.  Please let us know by the 14 th February at the latest if you plan to attend. CHELTENHAM PREVIEW This year's Cheltenham Preview will be held on Monday 7 th March in Adlestrop Village Hall at 7pm.  Once again it will be an all star affair with John Francome and others on the panel.  Food and drink will be provided and tickets will be limited this year so please book early at £20 each for non members.  A great investment if past performances are to go by.   Please book your places as soon as possible and by 1 st March at the latest. Stroll On The Wold Unfortunately we had to postpone the Stroll on the Wold due to be held on Monday 13th December due to lots of people dropping out with illnesses.  We hope to reschedule the event in January and will be in touch with a date very soon. 14th December, 2010 Call My Wine Bluff Friday night's Call My Wine Bluff was a great success once again.  Six teams of eight attempted to find out which of the panellists, Neil Gladding, Charlie Allan or Richard Phillips was telling the truth about each wine.  As ever some got it right, many got it wrong but all in good humour.  The winning team was hosted by Bob Coles who ran away with the star prize of Italian fizz and a Cadburys selection box.  Our raffle also raised money for 'Movember' for the prostate cancer charity. We delighted to announce the details of the Adlestrop Club's December event.  This year, it will be a Christmas ‘Stroll on the Wold,' on Monday 13th December, meeting up promptly at 6.45pm at The Talbot pub in the square in Stow on the Wold.  Teams of four will be allocated to go on a Stroll around Stow .  Each team will be given a sheet with clues of which pub they have to drink which drink in.  Last year's competition was a great success as there are twelve pubs in total.  We will all meet up back at The Talbot for a finger buffet at 9pm when the team that has the most correct drinks in the most pubs, will win a star prize.  Please let us know if you are able to attend by no later than Thursday 9th December.  All Adlestrop Club members are welcome, whilst any guests will be charged £10.  Call My Wine Bluff We are delighted to announce The Adlestrop Club's November event is the very popular Call My Wine Bluff on Friday 26th November in Adlestrop Village Hall at 7.30pm. Teams of eight are given unlabelled wines for tasting and have to decide which of the three panellists are telling the truth when describing the wine. Cheese and pate will be served during the evening. Adlestrop Club members are free of charge and guests are welcome at £20 per head to include wine, pate and cheese. Please book by the 18th November if you are able to attend.  If you are unable to get a team together, we can put you into one on the evening. 21st October, 2010 Various Stop The Show is back in faster work and in good form. It is too early to come up with any targets for him yet but let us hope the wind operation works and if it does, I am sure we will be in business off his handicap mark. We are still looking for a few more members to join the Thornton Alice partnership. We are looking for around 15 people to join in on her syndication. She is at present pleasing us in her work and has schooled well, and looks as though she will be of great interest this National Hunt season. Training fees will be £100 per month all inclusive and the cost of a 15 th share would be £600. Please let us know as soon as possible if you would be interested. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our quiz evening on Friday night. Congratulations to the winning team of Charlie and James Allan, Rick Allen, Gordon Clarkson and Al James. A fun night was had by all. Details of the Call My Wine Bluff will be on there way shortly, but please put the evening of Friday 26 th November in your diary. October Event This year’s October event will be a general knowledge quiz held at Adlestrop Village Hall on Friday 15th October. The quiz master this year will be Richard ‘Tarrant’ Phillips. A variety of questions have been prepared the winning team will be playing for the coveted, ‘Masterminds Of Adlestrop’ trophy. The quiz will start at 7.30pm prompt so please be seated and ready. Please let us know by 2nd October if you wish to attend. There will be teams of four and tickets to non members are £15 a head to include fish and chip supper and alcoholic refreshment. Horses The Adlestrop Club have an exciting winter to look forward to.  Both Stop The Show and Mr Mackay ran with distinction last season.  Stop The Show had wind operation during the summer which will hopefully help him get his head in front for the Club.  This brilliant jumper gave the Club some great days out last season and off his handicap mark, should once again be giving members some exciting moments on the track.  Mr Mackay was narrowly beaten both at Hereford and Huntingdon last season.  With his favoured soft ground, we are sure his stamina will bring about some more competitive runs this season and if ever a horse deserved to win, it is this game son of Fraam.  Adlestrop Club Cricket Match The Adlestrop Club cricket match took place yesterday. As ever we played the locals in a 40 over match which ended in victory for the home side, much to the disappointment of the opposition's captain! I feel the match could have been won had my nephew Sebastian not gone to The Fox at Broadwell for three pints of cider beforehand. Last year he won the match for us, this year he lost the match for us – however great fun was had especially as Warren Marston bowled so badly but made up for it with his batting. The raffle raised money for Adlestrop Cricket Club and the Injured Jockeys Fund and appropriately Choc Thornton turned out to pick out the raffle tickets. The prizes this time being quite attractive due to the fact that they had not been supplied by yours truly. 10th August Cricket Match This year's August event will once again be a cricket match at Adlestrop Cricket ground on Monday 9 th August.  The match will start at 2.30pm, however at 1.30pm there will be a picnic lunch for all Adlestrop Club members.  Once again a Phillips invitational XI will play the local Adlestrop team and there will be a raffle in aid of the cricket club. This promises to be a fun day, so please do come and watch. Please let us know by Friday 30 th July if you are able to attend. Entrance to the cricket ground is off the main A436 road between Stow and Chipping Norton road, (in between the two Adlestrop turnings) and opposite the Daylesford turning.  Look forward to hearing from you. Tattersalls Trip Yesterday was the Adlestrop Club's visit to Tattersalls Sales. A dozen members of the Club attended the impressive sales complex and were treated to a guided tour in the morning and a picnic at lunchtime. We had the pleasure of having the company of Sharron Murgatroyd and Elaine Mellor for our picnic. I stay with Sharron when in Newmarket . She has now been in a wheelchair for twenty years and is a remarkable human being and she entertained us magnificently during lunch. 9th July, 2010 Ladies Day at Royal Adlestrop Yesterday we had our Ladies Day at Royal Adlestrop with The Adlestrop Club. As usual there was a prize for the most tasteful and tasteless item from a charity shop. Winner of the most tasteful was Davina Heginbotham in a stunning green outfit, whilst the most tasteless was very obvious on arrival. Rick Allen's friend, Al James turned up in a stunning blue dress with blue boater hat. His accessories included a wicker style handbag and Al celebrated victory in some style and was lucky to walk towards the end of the evening. The tipping competition was won by Heggers, who won the ‘Fred Cooke Cup.' Thanks to a raffle and an auction, we raised £400 for various charities including the Macmillan Nurses. A fun day was had by all except of course our local bookmaker John Salmon, who took a pasting thanks to Dandino. The annual penalty shoot out at the end, saw Charlie Allan back in goal. This year the winner was George Kay, son of Brian who thanks to his multiple entry, finally got once past the ‘big man'. We all commented how we wished England goalie Rob Green had turned up. 18th June, 2010 Cartmel Trip On Sunday evening, some twenty members of The Adlestrop Club converged in the Riverside Hotel in Kendall for drinks for our Cartmel trip. A great time was had by all, despite the picnic, and the racecourse looked after us in exemplary fashion. If you have not been, it is a unique place and comes highly recommended. Amazingly on Sunday night in true Adlestrop Club fashion, Club members visited a club called Bootleggers where Barnsy was easily the eldest person in attendance. Much amusement was had when Davina Heginbotham, persuaded any attractive girl that walked past, that it was Barnsy's birthday and asked would they pose for a picture with him. Typically Barnsy joined in the fun, there is much photographic evidence of Barnsy's fake birthday and he was delighted to get so many birthday kisses. I doubt if Cartmel has ever seen The Adlestrop Club's tribute band to Abba, ‘Bjorn's Belief'. Once again Barnsy was at the forefront, wearing Davina's new white hat which she had purchased with her winnings on the Placepot, whilst the girls of The Adlestrop Club made a frighteningly impressive Abba like dance routine, pictures will follow soon. Thanks go to all the Club members that attended. 2nd June, 2010 Ladies Day At Royal Adlestrop We are pleased to announce details of our June event.  By popular demand, once again we are having Ladies Day at Royal Adlestrop taking place on Thursday 17th June in Adlestrop Village Hall.   The day will start at 1pm with a fizz reception followed by a buffet lunch.  We will have all the races from Royal Ascot screened live in the hall with North Cotswold Bookmakers there to take your bets.  There will be a tipping competition for the ‘Fred Cooke Mug'.  There will also be a competition this year for the most tasteful and least tasteful item bought from a charity shop (this does not have to be clothing).  There will be a prize for the best and the worst item, which must still have the label attached from the charity shop, so start looking now.  The day will end with a bandstand sing song and when people have had enough to drink, there will once again be a penalty shoot out in the grounds of the hall.  This beats the queues and the vulgarity of racing at Royal Ascot and is sure to be very popular so please book early. Adlestrop Club members are free of charge whilst any guests are most welcome at £30 a head to include all food and drink.  There will be a charity raffle as well to spend your winnings on.  For more information please do not hesitate to ring the office.  Places are limited so please book early and let us know before Friday 4th June at the latest if you would like to attend. Overbury Stud Visit Tuesday's visit to Overbury Stud went very well and some twenty five members attended.  Simon Sweeting was a wonderful tour guide and we saw all four resident stallions.  Kayf Tara was the star of the show as he is such a promising National Hunt sire, whilst Bertolini, Proclamation and Sagamix also looked in great condition.  We were then treated to a tour of the stud and saw Proclamation do ‘the business' in the covering shed.  Following a very generous collection for the stud staff, we proceeded to the Yew Tree at Conderton for a cracking buffet lunch.  The prices are very reasonable and a visit is highly recommended.  We will have news of Stop The Show and Mr Mackay soon now that we have had some rain. 30th April, 2010  April Event We are pleased to announce the Adlestrop Club event for April.  Thanks to the generosity of Simon Sweeting at Overbury Stud, the Club have been invited to view the stallions that include Kayf Tara and some of the mares and foals on Tuesday 27th April.  We intend to meet up at the stud at 10.45am for an 11am start.  Directions can be found on their website at http://www.ovstud.co.uk/how-to-find-us At 12.45pm we will then go onto the nearby pub, The Yew Tree at Conderton http://www.yewtreepub.com where we will have sandwiches and drinks. Please let us know if you are able to attend by no later than Friday 16 th April so that we can firm up on numbers. Stop The Show Stop The Show did his bit to raise money for charity on the Thursday of Cheltenham. With Annie Adams riding to instructions and teeing up Stop The Show for a run over fences soon. It was great to see so many of the Adlestrop Club in the paddock and Cheltenham and let's hope we can return one day with a fancied runner. 22nd March, 2010 Cheltenham Preview Monday evening, was The Adlestrop Club's Cheltenham Preview. This was a huge success with the hall being packed to listen to the views of John Francome, Richard Pitman and Choc Thornton. We are so lucky to be supported by so many good people who give up their time for zilch. Along with regulars Gordon Clarkson and Rick Allen providing information from Ireland and some fascinating statistics, the crowd were thoroughly entertained. In the audience we were privileged to have senior handicapper Phil Smith, who although he had the night off, was happy to share his wealth of knowledge. Whilst Racing Post writer Peter Thomas, a regular to Adlestrop sat on his hands in frustration, knowing that he couldn't release all information on offer to the outside world. Thanks to everyone's generosity around £750 was raised for Cancer Research. 10th March, 2010 A Question Of Sport Last night's Question Of Sport evening was a great success. Thanks to the excellent questions set by Adlestrop Club member Eric Painting. Following the first round, the Inverdale team which included the loyal trainer, got exactly zero points on football. However they recovered to be just ten points off the winning team hosted by Mark Pougatch. Of the twenty guest teams, the winners unfrotuantely once again included Gordy Clarkson, rick Allen, John Dykoskwi and Jon Dadswell. A great evening was had by all thanks to Chipping Norton Golf Club and we look forward to next year. 26th February, 2010 A Winters Evening Many thanks to everyone from the Adlestrop Club who attended last night's Winters Evening.  On behalf of everyone, a big thank you to Richard Pitman, John Francome and Brian Delany for giving up their time.  I think all will agree it was a special night where conversation flowed about the great times with F.T.Winter.  There were many memorable stories and much laughter.  Once again it emphasises how lucky we are in the Adlestrop Club to have these opportunities thanks to the genuine kindness of some good people. We also raised some money for the Bob Champion Cancer Trust, so many thanks to all. 18th January, 2010 Cheltenham Festival Preview We are delighted to announce that this year's Cheltenham Festival Preview will be at 7pm on Monday 8 th March in Adlestrop Village Hall.  The panel will once again include John Francome, Robert Thornton, Rick ‘Statto' Allen and Gordon ‘Paddy Power' Clarkson. After last year's fiercely accurate predictions, this year is sure to be very popular so please book your places as soon as possible and by no later than 22 nd February. Tickets are free of charge to Adlestrop Club members and non members will be charged £20 a head to include refreshments.  Look forward to hearing from you. 11th January, 2010
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