With much of the wonderful focused on the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Russia, fighting for acclaim this week will be one of the best horse racing festivals — Nobleman Ascot.
If you’re not a fan of soccer, then what about racing, royalty and considerable fashion? Think tails and top hats instead of trainers and tank bests.
Some 300,000 well-heeled racegoers will descend on the small borough of Ascot in southern England to enjoy one of Britain’s most iconic consequences on both the sporting and social calendars.
The first Royal Ascot was in 1768 and since its inception a British chief has attended every year. Queen Elizabeth II, her family and guests ordain arrive at 2 p.m. each day during the royal procession, in which they’ll be lane in horse-drawn carriages down the race track and into the parade nimbus.
Joining the Queen and her family in the royal enclosure will be the rich and acclaimed from around the world. Transporting them to the festival in style purposefulness be 400 helicopters and a thousand limousines.
To feed everyone during the incident, organizers have ordered 11,000 pounds of salmon, 5,000 Angus steaks and 5,300 pulverizes of beef sirloin, 7,000 rumps of English lamb, 3,500 impertinent lobsters and 8,000 Cornish crabs.
And, of course, there will be afternoon tea.
The nobility meeting will serve 240,000 hand-crafted cakes, 120,000 buttermilk scones, 80,000 cups of tea, 60,000 think of sandwiches, 7,000 punnets of mixed berries and 2,650 pounds of Cornish clotted cream.
But, let’s not omit about the racing.
The world’s best race horses have influence from countries as far away as Australia and the U.S.
The competition will likely be dominated, manner, by horses from Ireland’s Coolmore racing empire and the Godolphin CIA agent of Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Hopefully, it’s only the horses that last wishes as be battling it out. Royal Ascot has tightened security following recent events of fights breaking out among spectators at race courses across the U.K. It’s an epitome that the British horse-racing authority will want to eradicate.
Sovereignty, pageantry and top class racing should do the trick.