Sport Sports & Societies
Radley Wildebloods As the world starts opening up the Wildebloods are coming out once again. We started with an amazing garden drinks with our sister societies from Eton, Harrow, Sherbourne and Bedales. The evening began in the gardens of the St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden where the prosecco and wine were flowing freely before finally stumbling over to an underground bar in Soho to finish the night. Following on from these very successful drinks we organised a small table for the OR Dinner in November as well as a Christmas drinks at the start of December. Adam Lambert (2007)
Members of the Radley Wildebloods join forces with four other schools’ societies for a Drinks party in September.
Radleian Society Racing Syndicate We’ve been lucky enough to train College Oak for three seasons now, and he has turned out to be a cracking racehorse. Having won a bumper the previous season, College Oak took well to hurdling last season and won on his seasonal debut at Uttoxeter. He followed up in a competitive handicap hurdle at Ascot on the first big jumps Saturday of the season. It was a wonderful day in the pouring rain, which was only dampened by the fact that only six people could attend owing to the Covid protocols. However, those that were lucky enough to go celebrated in the Royal Box. He was placed on another two occasions last season, and we looked forward to this coming season when we planned to send him novice chasing. Being out of a winning sister to the threetime Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, Best Mate, and the Grade 1 winner Cornish Rebel, as well as the multiple winner Inca Trail, we thought he’d improve further for a fence. He was 3rd on his chasing debut this season, and he will improve on that as the season progresses, but it was on pretty soft ground and we think he’ll prefer some genuine good to soft ground. So, we’ll take our time and find the right opening for him once again. I am sure we’ll go up in trip with him and he will develop into a staying handicap chaser, and we might look to qualify him for the £50,000 Challenger Series Final at Haydock in April. After the success of College Oak, we will endeavour to set up another RadSoc Racing Syndicate in the coming years, and would hope to attract a few more Old Radleians and their families to join. Jamie Snowden (1992) 82
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College Oak wins a novice hurdle at Uttoxeter
