Race Mystery Cache
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The above co-ordinates are for parking near the cache. Do take care crossing the main road with children and animals.
Also there is a speed camera (road limit is 30mph) by the cache!! So don't run too fast across the road!!
You are looking for a small cache between the pavement and the edge of a field.
Now to the Race.
In a FTF cache race between six contestants, Pieman was not last. G6JLC was neither first nor last. Pieman beat PPAndR and Scottpa100. Team Mongoose beat G6JLC and 4Paw. Scottpa100 beat PPAndR AND G6JLC. PPAndR beat Team Mongoose.
In what order did they find the cache, ie place the contestants in order of finishing the race (1st to last)?
Who will really get FTF (watch this space)!!
***** Race controller, time 11.56pm, 15 June 07 - latest update on race.
Four hours after starters orders - emails flooding in some right, some wrong, even from the rank outsiders, odds on favourite to one of the contestants in the above race (obviously got new running shoes). A new day dawning tomorrow - will keep you updated. Watch this space......
*** Update - 11.00am Sat. Outsider (HazelS) coming up on the inside. Will it be a photo finish 
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Congratulations to PhilPamAndRob who came in FTF, furlongs ahead of his competition (no competition) to get to this Geocache 1st. Start time 4.20am. Over the finishing line time 5.19am on 16/6/07 *****************
The final cache co-ordinates are:
N53 18.AB6
W03 31.CD6
where:-
A = number of characters in the 1st/2
B = number of characters in the 3rd/2
C = number of characters in the last x 2
D = number of characters in the 2nd - 1
12/2/09
Please be EXTRA carefull when hunting and replacing the cache. Due to the camouflage cutbacks 
. You are more exposed to muggles now. Thank you TM 
This cache is set in Towyn, N.Wales and is only 5mins from the beach (see waypoint). If you're about when the sun is setting you won't be disappointed. You could do Happy Landins 'Up Horton's Nose' GCK2DB which is on the beach near (Sunny) Rhyl harbour 1 mile down the road.
Adjacent to the cache is a trotting track (where horses race around pulling a cart with a man sitting on it!! honest) which meets on a Tuesday night, every week during May to September. Other major events (Summer Circus, Stunt bikes, Big Foot trucks) and a carboot/market on Saturdays and Sundays.
There is also a funfair for the kids (and big kids).
Experience the Excitement of Harness Racing
"Down the stretch they come!"..."As they turn for home"..."Neck and neck"..."Wins by a short head!". All part of the thrill and spill of American style harness racing right here in the UK.
Harness racing
The sport began when the horses that delivered the post in America in the 1800s were made to race against each other. But it really took off properly with the coming of the first and most famous harness racing horse, Hambletonian, in the 1850s.
In those days, the horses were trained to do a mile in two and a half minutes - that is the standard speed for a standard bred horse. Most of the horses in harness racing today come from the bloodline of the stallion Hambletonian. They are known as standard bred, as opposed to thoroughbred like flat or steeplechase race horses.
The sport has become more popular throughout the world than thoroughbred racing, except in the UK. We don't call them riders, but drivers, as they have a 'sulky' - an old name for the cart.
The French have a derivation of harness racing called 'le trotter Francais'. Most of the horses in Europe trot as opposed to pace like in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Pacing is faster than trotting - it's all in the way the horse moves its legs, though they say trotting is a more natural gait for the horse.
At the moment, there's about a three second difference over a mile between the best trotters and pacers in the UK.
Harness racing has been happening in Wales for over 100 years, traditionally raced on grass tracks. But they're more dependant on the weather, so now there are four hard or all-weather tracks in the UK, two of which are in Wales - Ammanford Valley and Tir Prince in Towyn, the latter being the only full half-mile, floodlit hard track in the country.
The sport has been traditionally one for farmers in the UK - it was a relatively cheap sport for those who kept the odd horse and it was very much for amateurs. Now it's been taken up by small businessmen or people who just love horses.
The late Billy Williams set up Tir Prince. He was a driver himself - he got into it in the 1950s whilst working at Pontins in Prestatyn where there was a track. He loved it so much that one day he went to the races in his Ford Cortina, swapped it for a horse and walked home with the horse! He'd fallen in love with the sport.
Tir Prince was a derelict piece of land in 1990 when Billy Williams took it over and now hosts 13 races a year, some of which go out live on Rasus on S4C. There's big prize money on the televised nights - they're one of the richest nights in the sport. People from all over the world come here - there's a real Irish invasion.
Kimel Bay (visit link)
The Specials - Rat Race (visit link)
Tha camptown ladies song (visit link)
Do watch your speed on the A548 the N.Wales Police are very keen. Radar trap at Mostyn speed limit 40mph, Radar trap at Greenfield speed limit 30mph. Also one right by this cache 30mph. Take care 
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(Decrypt)
Haqre pbire ng gur onfr bs n gerr.
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