One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
As you know your scribe loves nothing better than visiting canal cities and the odd day at the track. On a recent visit to Copenhagen, I decided to drop in to another old favourite city from my youth, Helsinki. Whilst your scribe is a thoroughbred person, I have had occasion to visit the world of Harness Racing. In Australia the sport dates back to 1810 and the famous Interdominion or the Golden Mile are races not to be missed if they're held in your city. Some past legends and winners include Paleface Adios and Black's a Fake.
If you happen to be visiting one of the world's finest Aviation museums in Temora ( another of your scribe's passions) you might come across a wonderful statue of Paleface Adios, who is one of Temora's "favourite sons".
When in Helsinki your scribe was lucky enough to have been invited for a day at the races to include some French fizzy and some nice Scandinavian smorgas board for lunch. In your scribe's parlance this means thoroughbred racing but to my fine Finnish hosts this meant a day at the track watching harness racing at a lovely place called Vermo and what a treat it was that day. Thank you so much to my dear Finnish hosts Sofia and Oskari.
I never truly understood the significance of harness racing. Your scribe thought that it was simply another means of people with money to burn to bet on yet another form of racing. But NO, harness racing is born from the noble pursuit of young chaps racing their horse and cart back to the village after church on a Sunday morning.....who would have thought?
After a day of some damn fine Finnish cold cuts and some excellent (and very expensive) French champagne my kind hosts who have an interest in harness racing standard bred horses gave me these fine links as a present. Today's links are silver horse cart and jockey cuff links and are worn on special equine occasions and what better to wear them with than a smart navy blue Salvatore Ferragamo silk neck tie with horse and cart motifs and a Savile Row shirt
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
As you know your scribe loves nothing better than visiting canal cities and the odd day at the track. On a recent visit to Copenhagen, I decided to drop in to another old favourite city from my youth, Helsinki. Whilst your scribe is a thoroughbred person, I have had occasion to visit the world of Harness Racing. In Australia the sport dates back to 1810 and the famous Interdominion or the Golden Mile are races not to be missed if they're held in your city. Some past legends and winners include Paleface Adios and Black's a Fake.
If you happen to be visiting one of the world's finest Aviation museums in Temora ( another of your scribe's passions) you might come across a wonderful statue of Paleface Adios, who is one of Temora's "favourite sons".
When in Helsinki your scribe was lucky enough to have been invited for a day at the races to include some French fizzy and some nice Scandinavian smorgas board for lunch. In your scribe's parlance this means thoroughbred racing but to my fine Finnish hosts this meant a day at the track watching harness racing at a lovely place called Vermo and what a treat it was that day. Thank you so much to my dear Finnish hosts Sofia and Oskari.
I never truly understood the significance of harness racing. Your scribe thought that it was simply another means of people with money to burn to bet on yet another form of racing. But NO, harness racing is born from the noble pursuit of young chaps racing their horse and cart back to the village after church on a Sunday morning.....who would have thought?
After a day of some damn fine Finnish cold cuts and some excellent (and very expensive) French champagne my kind hosts who have an interest in harness racing standard bred horses gave me these fine links as a present. Today's links are silver horse cart and jockey cuff links and are worn on special equine occasions and what better to wear them with than a smart navy blue Salvatore Ferragamo silk neck tie with horse and cart motifs and a Savile Row shirt
Til Later
ONWARD
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