Aptly for a racecourse, the going was heavy throughout the site but those who hadn't burned themselves out too early in the day - and there were many rather the worse for wear - had a huge choice of the best in current music.
Their background would be familiar to readers of Jane Austen, a writer Mr Gayford often and aptly refers to: a few families thrown together by class, alive to every social nuance, ears pricked for money and rank.