A cranky character known for its cynical view of Christmas is performing a U-turn to help spread festive cheer in Bowthorpe The Grinch will be meeting customers and handing out gifts during a visit to the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) shop the striking green character plots to ruin Christmas by stealing gifts and decorations from homes in the town of Whoville the grumpy Grinch is changing its stance for a day of festive fun with the EACH team on Thursday Shop manager Michelle Hinton is the good sport donning the furry costume and said: “I’m always game for a laugh “We’ve picked this day as it’s generally a busy one “The Grinch will be meeting customers between 10am and 3pm handing out gifts and sweets and having some fun and we fancied doing something a bit different this year instead of having our regular Santa’s Grotto “Hopefully our customers like it and get in the spirit.” To find out more about volunteering in Bowthorpe, pop in for a chat, email Michelle.Hinton@each.org.uk or call 01603 732874 Find our notes to editors here For further information about this release please contact: Matt Plummer | Media and PR Manager | 07738 328058 | Matt.Plummer@each.org.uk Website by Itineris Powered by Grantham Journal, Rutland & Stamford Mercury, Spalding Guardian and Lincolnshire Free Press Home   Bourne   News   Article Farmers have been proudly showing off their new arrivals during the opening of a two-week lambing event Bowthorpe Park Farm near Manthorpe is open for people to learn more about life on the farm and cuddle up to its newest bundles of joy The lambing event kicked off on Saturday (April 5) with plenty of people booking a slot to meet the lambs Farmer George Blanchard said they’ve been blessed with a number of triplets this year He said: “It’s really nice to welcome so any triplets although it’s more work to look after them “We’ve had a busy start to the lambing event which has been helped by the good weather We expect it to get busier as we get closer to Easter but there’s still plenty of slots available for people to come and meet and bottle feed the lambs.” Visitors can see what happens on a working farm visit the lambing shed and maybe even witness a live birth During a 15-minute slot they will spend time learning how to handle a lamb before giving them a cuddle Visitors can then enjoy everything else the farm has to offer including highland cows Peter Rabbit will be paying a visit and there will be an Easter bunny trail to follow around the farmyard Tickets cost £9.50 for anyone aged three plus and £3.50 for children aged two and under Bottle feeding sessions are also available Tickets cost £17.50 for participants and £9.50 for accompanying adults without bottle feeding For more details or to book a slot visit www.bowthorpeparkfarm.co.uk/events 2025] — Scottsbluff High School is proud to announce Shaide Bowthorpe as the Girls Wrestling Coach for the 2025-2026 season With a track record of growing successful girls wrestling programs have been coaching wrestling together since 2022 working with both middle school and high school athletes in Newcastle Bowthorpe focused on building competitive and character-driven girls’ programs from the ground up Bowthorpe grew the Newcastle girls’ team from a single wrestler into a team of 16 athletes as well as a middle school team that placed in the top two at Districts the past two years Her year-over-year results reflect her commitment to consistency “I’m incredibly excited to be part of a larger school where we can continue building a strong positive program for young women,” said Bowthorpe capable women—and that’s exactly who we want our daughters and our athletes to grow up to be.” “We are extremely excited for Shaide and her husband to lead our girls’ wrestling program,” said Dave Hoxworth Scottsbluff High School Activities Director our team was impressed with their overall passion for the sport and their genuine concern for establishing great relationships with the girls and the work it takes to build a competitive program.”  and their family will be relocating to Scottsbluff this spring Bowthorpe and her husband are also proud parents of three young daughters Coach Bowthorpe will take the reins for the Bearcats after a milestone season where Sophomore Jazmyn Garcia was the team’s first-ever District Champion and State Medalist securing a runner-up finish at the NSAA Girls State Wrestling Championships Scottsbluff High School welcomes Coach Bowthorpe and looks forward to a successful 2025-2026 season under her leadership © 2025 Nebraska Rural Radio Association. All rights reserved. Republishing, rebroadcasting, rewriting, redistributing prohibited. Copyright Information Website ©2025 Nebraska Rural Radio Association | All rights reserved. | Website developed by Hollman Media you will be automatically redirected here whenever you go to https://ruralradio.com you can click the "Clear home" link in the footer of the site Despite auctioneer Alastair Pim pulling every trick in the book to coax one more bid out of Joorabchian, Godolphin won out again when the bid board reached 2,000,000gns. Banks described selling the first foal out of her first Group 1 winner for such a hefty sum as “surreal”. The delighted breeder said: “I love his mum and I love him. I will follow him wherever he goes and I’m very happy he’s gone to a great owner and a great establishment. He’s a special horse.” The wild ride Banks has enjoyed with Lady Bowthorpe began exactly seven years ago to the day, with James Toller signing the 82,000gns ticket at Book 2 of the 2017 October Yearling Sale. and check back in from 10.30am Thursday morning for all the latest on the third and final dayThe daughter of Nathaniel was sent to William Jarvis and showed steady but sustained progression over the course of four seasons in training By the time she ran her 18th and final race she had won five times with her record not only featuring the popular Nassau success but also victories in the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes and Group 3 Valiant Stakes She signed off with a typically game third-placed finish behind Baaeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Reflecting on the journey now that Lady Bowthorpe is making her mark as a broodmare Banks said: “It’s been quick and yet it’s taken forever Today has been quick and yet has taken forever too I’m just so proud that Lady Bowthorpe has had such a gorgeous I’m also so proud of everyone who’s been involved with her “She was bred at Fittocks and has gone back there and is loving life as a broodmare foaling manager] and all the team have done such a brilliant job of looking after him He’s been a superstar since the day he was born and I might be able to afford to keep him now Asked how Wednesday’s transaction matched up to her expectations Banks said: “I’ve had a lot of good expectation management with people pointing out that it could go horribly wrong and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Goodwood or Wolverhampton and I knew he was nice and people kept telling me he was nice but you need two people that want him to get a price like that.” Banks said there were no grand plans for her seven-figure dividend particularly having bred to Dubawi in consecutive years at advertised stud fees of £250,000 and £350,000 “£600,000 has already gone on him and his brother plus there’s all the keep,” she said when asked whether she might be tempted to reinvest the proceeds “But I’m in horseracing because I love racing and love breeding I’ve got a mare I’ve just retired who I’ll put in foal next year two of which are National Hunt – clearly I need my brain looking at who signed the docket on behalf of Godolphin paid tribute to Banks’s skill and dedication She raced Lady Bowthorpe and she was brave enough to go to Dubawi Fittocks do an excellent job and the remarkable thing is he’ll be going to be trained about a mile from where he was born: from Fittocks to Moulton Paddocks.” Godolphin’s seven-figure quartet on Wednesday was completed by a brace of 1,500,000gns lots including a son of Too Darn Hot from Croom House Stud The second 1,500,000gns signing was the Dubawi colt out of Molly Malone from Baroda Stud a sibling to the Group 2-winning Morgan Le Faye and the Listed scorer Emotion “Fair play to Tweenhills for using us to consign him as he’s a lovely horse,” said David Cox of Baroda Stud who also sold a 1,100,000gns Frankel colt to Amo on day one “Trade has been very strong and we’ve had two millionaires this week The homebreds off the farm are selling well for our clients too “I probably wasn’t expecting it [to be this strong] Keeneland was very good and the top horses in Goffs sold very well but some of the sales weren’t as strong as we’d have hoped ‘I knew I was sitting on some hot property’ - Godolphin outmuscle Amo Racing as Charyn’s sister brings 2,900,000gns  Atmosphere set fair in Newmarket as Amo Racing takes Book 1 by storm  Published on 9 October 2024inSales reports Copyright © 2025 Spotlight Sports Group Limited or its licensors CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TDN FOR FREE! Remember Ben with a gift to Thoroughbred aftercare Subscribe for FREE to the Daily PDF or the News Alerts Home » Archive » Top News Europe » Godolphin Buy Dubawi Colt for 2,000,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 The Dubawi colt out of Lady Bowthorpe | Melanie Sauer Godolphin saw off stiff competition from Amo Racing during Wednesday's session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale to secure the Dubawi (Ire) colt out of the G1 Nassau Stakes heroine Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) for 2,000,000gns lot 242 became Godolphin's eighth purchase of the day for a total spend of 9,550,000gns Lady Bowthorpe also won the G2 Dahlia Stakes and G3 Valiant Stakes and is a half-sister to the G2 Greenlands Stakes scorer Speak In Colours (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) Not a subscriber? Click here to sign up for the daily PDF or alerts. Copy Article Link Editor / News Stories:editor@thetdn.com Advertising:advertising@thetdn.com Customer Service:customerservice@thetdn.com Click Here to sign up for a free subscription Home » Archive » Europe » Banks Bringing the Talent to Tattersalls Lady Bowthorpe with her owner Emma Banks | Racingfotos “This business is a great leveller,” says Emma Banks who is preparing for the sales debut of the first foal of her star mare Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) at Tattersalls next week The Dubawi (Ire) colt is being consigned by Fittocks Stud He's going to be the second horse I've sold this year I'd have happily raced him but Tim Easterby bought him outside the ring for 1,000gns which is great because Tim will do a great job and if there's any racehorse in there But [selling for] 1,000gns ends up with you being sent £82 by Tattersalls and they're in a field with their mates for the first 18 months of their lives And I think I'm quite good at accepting stuff in Banks's association with the eight-year-old Lady Bowthorpe the mare brought the house down at Goodwood when winning the Nassau Stakes – an emotional final Group 1 winner for popular Newmarket trainer William Jarvis “She wasn't the easiest as a racehorse,” Banks recalls but she was tricky and had her own way about her William did a brilliant job getting out of her what he did who always looked after her – I sound like Aidan O'Brien – but Claire looked after her for so long and had such a bond with her.” including the dual Listed-winning sprinter Mrs Gallagher (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and two for National Hunt Both Lady Bowthorpe and Mrs Gallagher were bought for her at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale by former trainer James Toller “I've always wanted to breed and I figured out The first filly that I bought as a yearling was Mrs Gallagher I called her Mrs Gallagher because I got obsessed with Mrs Danvers who was the season before and she was by Oasis Dream so that's where the Gallagher thing came from.” The reference to the Oasis reunion of the Gallagher brothers is of course a telltale sign of Banks's day job as one of the most powerful agents in the music business The co-head of global touring at the Creative Artists Agency she draws parallels with that business and the imbalance in returns to racehorse owners “I look at the music business because and I'm here to plot and plan with them and their teams a career strategy for them which is what I think I do with my trainers for my horses “Nobody goes to Wembley Arena or Wembley Stadium or the Shepherd's Bush Empire or wherever the actors or the opera singers that are performing So the right way to look at it is that if there is money coming in they're empty if footballers aren't playing People complain about how much footballers earn and people go because they want to see Ronaldo people went to Southwell to see City Of Troy do a gallop If ever there was proof that if you have horses that have become celebrities I went to see Enable run at Kempton in the September Stakes “I sometimes wonder whether the owners get enough good stuff The racecourses can go whistle if there are no horses they might say they don't really care about horseracing any more there has to be a bit of an acceptance that without the horses The way that the music business works is that if Shepherd's Bush Empire is the equivalent to a racecourse Shepherd's Bush Empire get paid a fee for their facility And you take that and any other costs off the net income and then the artist gets probably 85% or 90% of the money because they're the ones that have earned the money and everyone that's putting it together gets less money than that it's a very interesting thing that the feeling is apparently that owners don't deserve as much of the money “I'm not trying to be particularly tricky about it but I just think that we've lost who's putting what into this and the balance is wrong No racecourse would invest as much as an owner does for no return Talent should earn more than service.” Banks is building a promising base of talent with her stakes-winning daughters of Nathaniel and Copy Article Link Shaide Bowthorpe was hired as the Scottsbluff girls wrestling coach earlier this week Brooks have been coaching middle- and high school athletes in Newcastle The high school girls team has grown from a single wrestler into a team with 16 athletes during that time as well as a middle school program which placed in the top two spots in the district meet each of the past two seasons “I’m incredibly excited to be a part of a larger school where we can continue building a strong positive program for young women,” Bowthorpe said in a release announcing the hire capable women and that’s exactly who we want our daughters and our athletes to grow up to be.” Brooks will serve as the Bearcats’ assistant coach to lead our girls wrestling program,” Bearcats athletic director Dave Hoxworth said in the release “Through the interview process our team was impressed with their overall passion for the sport the knowledge they possess and their genuine concern for establishing great relationships with the girls and the work it takes to build a competitive program.” Scottsbluff High School will run a pair of football camps this summer on each of the three days on the school’s practice field The camp is geared toward incoming freshmen through senior players each days and is geared toward incoming sixth through eighth-grade players The cost for each is $30 and includes a t-shirt Those interested can register online at scottsbluffcamps.com or visit the site for additional information OGALLALA — Three sessions of the Steve Morgan summer volleyball camps will be held in Ogallala this summer The sessions are June 16-17 and 23-24 and July 10-11 The camps are geared toward players in third- to eighth grade Those interested can reach out to Steve Morgan at 308-284-2836 or 308-289-1465 or at skmorgan@charter.net Individuals can also visit stevemorgancamps.com for additional information — Drew Kramer went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI to lead the Torrington American Legion baseball team to a 16-3 win over Laramie on Wednesday in the Tigers’ season opener Kramer and Grady Shields both scored four runs Mac Hidden and James Stienmetz both had two hits in the win Laramie led 1-0 after two innings before Torrington scored three times in both the third and fourth The Tigers then broke the game open with five runs in the fifth and sixth Torrington hosts the Laramie Rangers AA team on Sunday sports@starherald.com; 308-632-9050. 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Read our Privacy notice A dozen “magnificent oaks” have been chosen for the shortlist for this year’s Tree of the Year contest with the public now able to vote for their favourite A tree that sheltered 19th century children’s tea parties the UK’s widest oak and one which is shaped like an elephant are among those selected for the public vote in the annual competition The Woodland Trust said 11 trees on the theme of magnificent oaks had been chosen by a panel of tree experts along with one nominated by members of the public via social media They include oaks which are over a thousand years old individuals sporting ancient graffiti and a wide array of wildlife hanging on in Sitka spruce plantations or threatened with felling for a bypass oaks can live more than 1,500 years and support 2,300 different species of wildlife and the UK boasts more ancient oaks than the rest of Western Europe combined It’s humbling to think how many events these trees have lived through As the Woodland Trust is campaigning for more robust legal protections for the country’s most valuable trees the charity said it was an obvious choice to select oaks – which are “ingrained in our heritage” – to make up the shortlist will go forward to compete in the European Tree of the Year contest early next year citizen science manager at the Woodland Trust said:  “We chose the iconic oak because it captures people’s imaginations – from their leaves to their acorns these trees are ingrained in our heritage – and the ancients are so impressive in terms of their sheer size and age “Some oaks that are alive today were already centuries old at the time of Queen Elizabeth I “It’s humbling to think how many events these trees have lived through and that reaching full maturity they can stand for hundreds of years as ancient trees – all the while continuing to provide vital habitat as they hollow and produce dead wood,” she said despite their key part of British culture and heritage oaks and other ancient trees have very little legal protection people are also being invited to sign the Woodland Trust’s “living legends” petition calling for stronger laws around cutting down valuable trees head of campaigns at the Woodland Trust said: “The history of our country is interwoven with these wonderful trees and after which we have named so many places – and pubs “It is essential that future generations have the opportunity to stand under a centuries-old oak and wonder what stories it holds.” The 12 oaks shortlisted for the Tree of the Year vote are: a 1,200-year-old sessile oak tree with a huge 14.02 metre girth which stands in a private garden on “Oak Lane” and has a totally hollow trunk – Bowthorpe Oak, Lincolnshire which is thought to be around a thousand years old and is the second widest tree on the shortlist and it is claimed three dozen people once stood in it which stands among several mammoth trees in wildlife-rich Great Wood in the grounds of Gregynog Hall in Powys could have been admired by the likes of Gustav Holst and George Bernard Shaw who are known to have visited the property – Queen Elizabeth Oak, West Sussex which is the second largest sessile oak on record and is one of a few ancient oaks associated with Elizabeth I who is believed to have been positioned by the tree on a hunting excursion in 1591 single-stemmed oak that is surrounded by Sitka spruce monoculture but still supports a huge ecosystem in its canopy including temperate rainforest bryophytes and lichens on its bark – The Michael, Midlothian, which is a hybrid of the the UK’s two native oaks, sessile and pendunculate. Its name is probably a corruption of the Scots word “meikle”, meaning big, though some believe it was named after The Michael, the largest sailing ship afloat in the 16th century. – Tea Party Oak, Suffolk, stands in the National Trust’s Ickworth Estate, but significantly predates the 18th century palace there, and is significant for locals and wildlife including bats. It is named after tea parties held under it for village children in the 19th century. –  King John Oak, Somerset, a tree that was already 500 years old when the school whose grounds it stands in was founded in 1519. It has seen countless generations of children grow up alongside it. –  Darwin Oak, Shrewsbury, which is estimated to be 550 years old and grows very close to The Mount, the childhood home of Charles Darwin. Darwin’s Oak, as it is known locally, and eight other ancient trees are at risk of being felled to make way for the Shrewsbury bypass. –  Capon Tree, Scottish Borders, which is one of the last surviving trees of the ancient Jedforest woodland. Its sprawling form may have saved it from felling for shipbuilding, and for 75 years it has played a key role in the annual Jethart Callant festival, with a sprig being used to decorate the leading man or Callant. – Castle Archdale Oak, Co Fermanagh, has a vast trunk split into two stems, and was likely to have been standing throughout the building, capture, burning and abandonment of nearby, now-ruined, Castle Archdale in the 17th century. – The “Elephant Oak”, Old Sloden Inclosure, Sussex, is the wildcard nomination from the public, nominated by Claire Sheppard, who said: “It’s a pollard oak known as the ‘Elephant Oak’ due to its massive trunk! “I hike for around 5km from Abbotswell car park to get there and back, and this wood always gives me goosebumps. It’s not the easiest place to reach and hence it’s always very quiet; I get a real sense of peace and solitude here,” she said.