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Fri 07 Jul 2010All bets - and hats - off for the girls
It started off well – heels and hats on – but on Ladies’ Day in Ballybrit, only the strongest fillies will have the stamina required to survive the day. Make-up by Dulux, flip flops by design
AND THEY were off. Trotting by the champagne tent, shimmying past the best dressed tent, stepping nimbly around the boys (“you’re a fine thing, c’mere to me”) outside the beer tent. It was Ladies’ Day yesterday and the serious contenders who came to Ballybrit from all parts of the island knew the drill. Look nonchalant at all times. Walk in a figure of eight in view of the judges. Pout. Stay upright. Smile.
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