Queen Elizabeth celebrates the victories of her horses at the races: finally a joy

Is called Fresh Fancy and, at the moment, it is the greatest joy of the Queen Elizabeth. No, this is not a new adorable corgy, but one of his horses, which on 13 September triumphed at Kempton Park Racecourse by giving a The Queen a small record: 2021 was the luckiest year of recent decades for the sovereign’s stables, which hadn’t won so much since 1988.

Thirty seasonal victories obtained so far, and a record beaten, that of 29 in 2019. The victories, in reality, would be 32, because the queen also had two champions in jumps.

A great satisfaction, in short, which seems to have been welcomed with great joy in Balmoral, where the sovereign spent most of her summer holidays and where she still is today.

And while the British tabloids have renamed Elizabeth “lucky Queen” there are also those who have done the math in her pocket, because horse racing, of course, does not only satisfy the spirit. The sovereign has scrapped a substantial nest egg equal to 460 thousand pounds in the last nine months. A hefty sum for the finances of The Firm, as the monarchy is nicknamed, where the income is not lacking but the extras are certainly not despised.

Elizabeth II, thus, was finally able to savor some small joy after a really difficult year, marked by the utterances of Harry and Meghan, increasingly freewheeling against the family, the death of her husband Philip, the hardest blow, and in recent weeks from the worsening of the situation of the third child Andrea, accused of sexual violence against a woman who was a minor at the time. Between scandals and pains, The Queen, with its 95 years, it remains the backbone of a family where headaches are not lacking, but fortunately, every now and then, it also has good reasons to celebrate.