{"id":1122,"date":"2008-04-28T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1122"},"modified":"2013-11-20T22:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:05:47","slug":"racing-cert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/racing-cert\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing cert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To get to our council recycling facility I have to drive past the local racetrack. It&#39;s a chore I don&#39;t mind as I usually pause by the Downs to take some photos. On race days they stop the traffic each time a race is due, which is always a good excuse to linger. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I decided to park up and watch one of the races. Happily I had the long lens and monopod in the car, and followed the TV crew to a decent vantage point. While waiting for the race I spotted a cock linnet, my first of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/linnet_2704085306_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/linnet_2704085306_b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact this was going to be a birding post, as the last couple of days have had some excellent sightings, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=502160&amp;picture=7167134\" target=\"_blank\">noisy wren<\/a> which appears to have taken up residence in the garden. You&#39;ll need to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=502160\" target=\"_blank\">April Birds<\/a> album for a small selection from the weekend. But now for the horses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085336.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085336.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">On the way to the start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085349_crop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085349_crop.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">And they&#39;re off!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085369.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085369.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Tightly grouped as they jockey for position<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085358.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/racehorse_2704085358.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Horse power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,167,1],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-horse","category-uncategorized","tag-horse-racing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}