St Leger Horse Races

I went for my first Horse Race event!One of the biggest ones in England and it was sooooo glam!

Bronwen got me my ticket for my birthday!SO SWEET!I love my breadie!Thank you!!!!<3

Horse racing is a big tradition in England, its been going on for centuries and I love how this tradition still lives on. The town which I live in hosts one of the biggest Horse Races in the country, called the St Leger Races. This race is one of the oldest as well cos its been going on for more than 400 years! :0

 The event takes place in a massive horse race stadium and its always full of people looking all fabulous!People get really into dressing up for these races, especially the females of course!They wear fancy dresses, big hats, fascinators, the works, etc. The men wear suits or tuxes!Its a dress code so not one person would be dressed casual. The main thing about this event is of course betting on horses and getting drunk lol. Once the race is over, everyone hits the clubs in town. Some people don't even bet on horses or even watch the race, they just go for the races for the vibe and champagne ;) It goes on for a whole week and females go for free on Ladies Day, thats when girls get even more into it cos more men would be turning up on that day.

My boyfriend, Bronwen and I went for the main event on Saturday. 

Us before heading out to the stadium

It cost £50 per person to attend this event, there are different areas where you can be at the stadium and you pay according to which section you want to observe the races and hang around at, so we chose the County Enclosure cos its one of the best ones and theres a few bars, stalls, etc. plus its easier to watch the races. My boyfriend likes to place bets so he bet on every single race lol, I preferred to stick to my Strongbow bottles of cider and watch the race.

We kept having to go into the indoor bit to sit down cos our feet were giving up on us, not including Ethan of course cos he wasn't wearing heels lol.

I saw loads of people from school and everyone was all glammed up with their fascinators and big hats. I wore a fascinator but I didn't take a photo with it cos I had to take it out eventually since it kept poking into Ethan's nose whenever he hugged me, ouch! He tolerated it for a few hours and then finally told me when he couldn't handle it anymore lol.

I loved it at the races!It reminded me of whenever they show footages of the royalty at horse races together with other posh people having champagne and cheering on their horses lol and to be honest, it felt just like it!Its one of those times where you can wear a stupid OTT dress with a fancy hat and no one will laugh at you!I defo want to go again next year and I will place some bets next time lol. Oh btw, Prince Charles was there as well! :D

Everyone crowding to watch the final event = more money if your horse wins

You can tell from the photos that everyone at the stadium were walking and making their way into town to hit the clubs!Haha us smart asses took the bus into town lol.

We met up with Carissa, Holly, Kelly, Andy, Jack & Kyle in town! They laughed at the way we were dressed all OTT but so were everyone else in town!

Kelly showed us her engagement ring!!!!!!!My fishie is gonna get married to Andy!Congrats fishie!!!!!

Fyi, I call Kelly a fish cos she's got short term memory, not cos she smells, and she calls me Cat and we call ourselves CatFish which is lame but cute, yay. Whenever we do pairwork in school together we always paste a catfish cartoon on our work which always causes epic confusion in our sociology reports lol.

I don't know how long we stayed clubbing in town but it felt quite long to me considering the fact that I was drinking booze since morning lol. Carissa and Jack were getting it on ;) they look cute together. Its so typical of girls to want one of their girl friends to be set up with her boyfriend's best mate right? lol but this time I did not plan/scheme anything okay!They kinda just started dancing together like magnets lol.

So Ethan & I left cos we were hungry and wanted some pizza from the very awesome Gino's!Words can't describe the pizzas made there, its just an ordinary takeaway alongside other takeaways in our local town but its the bestest one you'd find which is why theres always people in there.

I am not kidding but this is a candid photo Ethan took of me while waiting for our pizza in Gino's, the reason why I so happened to be smiling is because I was looking at the pizza menu and was craving some garlic&cheese bread, True story!I don't like this photo that much but I credit it cos it was taken at like 1 in the morning, haha its a case of good timing + good angle lol.

I know I mentioned this at the beginning of this post but THANK YOU MISS BRONWEN aka the bread to my chocolate!!!!

She got me my ticket to St Leger horse races for my birthday!!!!love her!!!!

<3 <3 <3 <3