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It is home to a horse. And witches.





Royal Ascot in June - the central secular-English horseness event of the year.







Among the "horseman" (ie trainers and jockeys), the event is called the "Gold Cup" - the name of the main prize, which is awarded on Thursday, Lady's Day, when made to wear a dunce cap.





















But Ascot does not end with the "Gold Cup" and "My Fair Lady" (if you remember - this is a social event took Professor Higgins beautiful Eliza Doolittle). At all other times, too, there is Ascot. It turns out, Ascot - a small town in England, in addition to having more caps and the most common streets, lights, highways and perhaps even the trash.









And there is the racetrack, which conducted training and racing. Yet there are reporters, bars and TVs, but they have never been photographed.



















Among the jockeys Ascot acquired a strange glory. On the one hand there are the country's most prestigious horse race, but then they do something wrong. Dick Francis claimed that is home to witches. Perhaps this is because of the wind. Wind breaks the symmetry of the whole, and sometimes even violate decency.





During the race the British are behaving ... well, as the British and athletes, and generally all the wild crowd. Without the scandal has not done even the 300th anniversary of the Royal races: it is located next to the lodge queen aristocrats fought. They beat each other's chairs and bottles of champagne worth $ 200. They were taken away, of course.









Ascot has a great history. Queen's aristocracy, sports, victory, defeat is mixed in such a bizarre mess that sometimes do not understand - what is it and why. Old photographs illustrate this very well: people on them as if frozen, like a butterfly caught in the resin of time.















On the one hand beautifully. And at the same time you understand that there is any - scandals, liars, bookmakers, three sheets to Lose racing fans, the police and various leaders as crooks and madmen trying to smuggle heroin Royal races. And no living horse's muzzle, seen? Because the lenses are captured only a mask, and is known only to the true face of those who there is.