Category: Sport

The Young Guns Charity Clay Shoot, brilliantly organised by Tor Dashwood and Ella Hadsley Chaplin and hosted at the EJ Churchill Shooting School and afterwards at West Wycombe Park, raised an amazing £17,000 for Breast Cancer Research.

Having consigned the clays to dust, a flurry of thirsty guns and their guests drank Coates & Seely under the east portico of West Wycombe Park in perfect autumnal sunshine before moving  to a glorious lunch under the house’s southern colonnade. Indefatigable, the day finally ended with a party at 5 Hertford Street.

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A combination of thrilling racing, sartorial flair, natural beauty and an endless flow of chilled bubbles would make even the most hardened cynic smile, or determined puritan think twice.

For those of us happy transgressors, the five days were  a celebration of all that’s best about England in the summer, even if it was a little damp from time to time…

The Coates & Seely Pavilion positively bubbled and we were delighted to be able to establish ourselves at the heart of one of the greatest British sporting events of the year.

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Coates & Seely’s journey into the world of racing continued afoot on the first of the 3 Friday Nights racing events at Goodwood on 2nd June, when the Coates & Seely Novice Stakes were run.

On a gloriously sunny evening, Irish filly Short Call, trained by Mick Channon and ridden by Martin Harley, tracked the leaders in an exciting race before moving slightly ahead two furlongs out to finish just over two lengths ahead of the runner up.

Amidst the copious betting in the Coates & Seely box, multiple corks popped as the winners celebrated victory and the losers took solace in the most agreeable response to defeat yet to be devised by man.

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Goodwood is surely the most beautiful racecourse in the country – if not the world – and Coates & Seely is delighted to have been chosen by Goodwood as their exclusive English sparkling wine at this most quintessentially English of venues.

Saturday was the opening day of the Goodwood racing season and an excited crowd celebrated the ‘sport of kings’ with an intoxicating mix of high quality racing and with copious quantities of Coates & Seely.

We will be present at all nineteen racing days at Goodwood this season and we would invite all our friends and customers to the Coates & Seely Pavilion in the Gordon Enclosure to share it with us.

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Photography by Jayson Fong