Friday, March 25, 2016

This is all just too cute for words.

Forget Cheltenham, the best horse-racing action to be had is at the Shetland Pony Grand National heats.

Just check out the first heat today at Lambourn.

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The Shetland Pony Grand National is actually an organisation that raises money each year for a nominated charity - for 2016 it is the Bob Champion Cancer Trust.

The jockeys involved are all children aged between 8-13 years old and they and a collection of Shetland ponies run heats in different venues across the UK.

By December jockeys and ponies either qualify or get selected to compete at The Olympia Horse Show in London.

Want to see more? Of course you do.

Here’s the second heat - also filmed at Lambourn this afternoon.

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