Hospitality to Set the Heart Racing! Travel like an owner! Champagne receptions, afternoon teas, special guest speakers and tipsters, private tours of top trainers’ yards and the gallops at Newmarket, dining at country inns noted for fine food, real ales and racing reputations —and you’re in for a racing trip of a lifetime!

HRTW offers complete travel arrangements ensuring a first class day at the races, personally hosted by George Wagner, who brings a lifetime of horse racing experience both as an owner and avid amateur handicapper.
We also arrange foxhunting, fishing, shooting, polo, golf, tickets to premiership football, rugby, the theatre or concert, or a day of relaxation at a spa.

CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL
MARCH 9-18, 2012

Experience the exhilarating roar of 60,000 punters as the tape rises to start the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. Be front and centre at Cheltenham’s opening day and closing Gold Cup Day with prime seating and hospitality. Enjoy a day’s racing at Taunton Racecourse, and experience Imperial Cup Day at Sandown Park, one of Britain’s most loved and revered venues.

• 8-Nights stay in the heart of British jump racing country at the Queen’s Arms Hotel,
  East Garston, Lambourn.
• 1-Night stay at the 15th century Luttrell Arms Hotel in the medieval village of Dunster.
• Racing and hospitality at Cheltenham Racecourse, Taunton Racecourse and Imperial
  Cup Day at Sandown Park.
• Dine at Jacobean mansion The Bibury Court Hotel, The Wild Duck Inn -16th century
  character with 21st century luxury and traditional ales, Guy Sangster’s Outside Chance
  Pub and The Bear, one of England’s oldest coaching inns dating back to 1464.
• Enjoy private tours to: Brian Meehan’s historic Manton House Stables & Clatford
  Gallops on the Marlborough Downs, Philip Hobb’s Sandhill Racing Stables and Pat
  Murphy’s Glebe House Stables and Mandown Gallops.
• Tickets to Dunster Castle, and an evening performance at the Watermill Theatre.

ROYAL ASCOT
June 9-17, 2012

Experience the pageantry and tradition of Royal Ascot, Britain’s premier event on its racing and social calendar. See and be seen at opening day, ladies “look at that hat” day and closing day.

• 6-nights at Dorchester’s undeniably English Georgian manor - 5-Star Coworth Park Hotel & Spa — Enjoy polo, the questrian center and Wentworth Club’s golf courses.
• 2-nights at the Queen’s Arms Hotel in the heart of the Lambourn Valley famed for its horse training heritage and fly-fishing.
• Evening racing with champagne and dinner at Windsor Racecourse, a unique venue with its stunning riverside location.
• Dine at The Pheasant Inn famed for its historic racing reputation and bon vivant landlord.
• Enjoy traditional English Sunday lunch at Marco Pierre White’s Yew Tree Inn.
• Lunch at The Outside Chance, owned by Guy Sangster.
• Dinner at legendary Boisdale for exceptional malt whiskies and jazz.
• Enjoy private tours to: the town of Newmarket, Ed Dunlop’s 1870 La Grange Stables, The National Stud, British Racing School, Manton Estate and The Household Cavalry Museum.
• Meet after dinner speaker Major Richard Waygood MBE, Chief d’Equipe for the British Eventing and Dressage Team.

ARLINGTON MILLION
August, 2012

• Return air (for Canada) — Porter Airlines, Toronto Island to ChicagoMidway
• 3 nights hotel, Indigo Chicago. Downtown Gold Coast, minutes from fabulous Rush Street — Chicago’s prime nightlife entertainment area.
• Reserved club seating, dining and open bar on Arlington Million Day
  (5 Gr. 1 races) at beautiful Arlington Million.
• Custom ground transporation to/from hotel and Arlington Park

SARATOGA
August/September, 2012

• Return train (for Canada) — Amtrak’s Maple Leaf route, Toronto Union to Albany, New York.
• 4 nights, Holiday Inn Express, Clifton Park, New York
• Reserved pavillion seating, dining and open bar for 3 days at historic Saratoga racetrack.
• Custom ground transportation to/from hotel and Saratoga racetrack.

A fantastic combination flat and jump racing trip — L’Arc de Triomphe in Paris & Velka Pardubicka in Prague.

PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE
October, 2012

VELKA PARDUBICKA STEEPLECHASE

The toughest steeplechase in Europe - if not the world! 4.9 miles long, with 31 jumps - Irish Banks, ditches, stone walls, in and outs, water, timber, drops....

Coming in 2013

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