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Farquhar nears the end of Walking The Courses mission

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Runners in first ever flat race at Wetherby

Wetherby is next on Richard Farquhar’s journey

  PICTURE: Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Lee Mottershead 6:30PM 14 JAN 2016 

THE HARDEST-working feet in racing will start pounding pavements, paths and fields once again on Friday with Richard Farquhar hoping his bold Walking The Courses charity mission can yet raise the targeted combined total of £1.4 million for Pancreatic Cancer UK and Racing Welfare.

Across Friday and Saturday Farquhar will travel on foot from Ripon to Wetherby as he progresses on his arduous near 3,000-mile route linking Britain’s 60 racecourses.

Once the latest Yorkshire mission is finished there will be 13 more journeys to tackle before the final winning post at Newmarket is reached on April 14. However, with around £300,000 already received and much more expected to come the sport’s most dedicated pedestrian is in an optimistic – albeit also understandably pensive – mood.

Braving the Brecons

“We are three-quarters of the way through with around 750 miles left to do but we still have some taxing legs coming up,” said Farquhar.

“The walk from Ludlow to Ffos Las (February 2 to 6) has been like a flashing amber warning light to me. In part that is because of its length but it’s also because we’ll be walking over the Brecons. If the weather is still and sunny it could be gorgeous but the more likely scenario is it will be wet, windy and horrible. All you tend to find around there in February are sheep and soldiers.”

Farquhar – who is “thrilled” to have been nominated in the racing community category at next month’s Godolphin Stud And Stable Staff Awards – is hoping the trainers of Newmarket will join him on the leg between Yarmouth and Fakenham (February 17 to 19), while before that their Lambourn counterparts are being asked to stretch their legs between Ascot and Newbury (February 12 to 13). Plans are also being developed for a gala dinner in May.

‘A real shot’

Farquhar added: “The target has always been £1.4 million, and as long as I don’t croak I remain optimistic we have a real shot at getting there. We have deliberately not gone hunting the bigger fish and you do tend to find with fundraising missions the graph rises steeply towards the end of the project and even after it has finished. 

“To reach £1.4m we will need some extremely nice people to be extremely nice to us, but I’m already very happy with where we are. The money we are raising is undoubtedly going to make a very serious long-term material difference to the two charities.”

 

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