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Crosby
The TT's history never fails to amaze me and some of the most extraordinary tales are from the late Geoff Davison's TT books (Davison was himself a top TT racer in the 1920s ), including Racing Through the Century; Racing Reminiscences and The Racing Game. And it was buried within one of Davison's books that I encountered this story ...
In 1931, a group of horses appeared on the track at between Union Mills and Glen Vine just before the first man came through for the morning's practice session. The horses were swiftly herded into a neighbouring field but then freed themselves and rejoined the course at Crosby. As the riders raced past the horses increased their speed but were eventually stopped at the highlander.
It would have been wrong not to illustrate this story with actual horses and farmer John Quine and his daughter Libby came to the rescue. Libby's friend met us with a horse truck at a small track near their farm in Bride. The horses were beautiful ex race horses and the plan was to clamber on top of one of them and lie sideways, but a trial of this in my dressing gown proved too precarious with the horse moving and me pivoted on my stomach. So we decided to have them run down the track with me chasing after them wearing sidecar passenger Chris McGann's
