Nick
Decembers where when the racing world took a deep breath and had moment to pause, taking the brief respite between the Championships and the scramble for the Derby that would begin again in January. Of course the wheels kept turning, horses had to be fed, watered and worked but on the surface it was still. On the surface, the social game played out, for this was the season of functions, a season to celebrate what was and what is to come but most of all to try and glean the upper hand and cultivate the right relationships to do so.
The main house of the Plattner’s stud was decked in their racing colours; green and gold dominated wi