The First King of Racing | FULL EPISODE | Time Team 

Everyone dressed up to the nines, and then there's Phil. Never change, Phil :)

Phil says, "I was bound to be a horse lover." Phil's name is presumably Phillip, which literally means "horse lover."

Never thought I'd hear "Ow, me nuts!" on Time Team lol.

The voice-over script on this episode is brilliant.

Uncompromising Phil going to the races in his everyday clobber. Never change mate!

Australia's premier racetrack, Flemington Racecourse, was opened in 1840 - just five years after Melbourne was established. It has held the world's richest handicap race, The Melbourne Cup, since 1861. Prize money last year was $4.4M with a $250,000 trophy for the winner. Why am I mentioning this famous and spectacular racecourse in Australia? The area adjacent to it, is called Newmarket, and one of the Group One races there is called the Newmarket Handicap. Co-incidence? After watching this show, I think not... 😀

Bah! Raksha is brilliant. I've watched about 1/3 so far. She will find something lovely. If I'm wrong, I'll have another.... beverage.

I just picture them telling Tony they're going to be digging here and he just lights up and says, "brilliant! I have SO MANY HORSE PUNS!"

🤣🤣🤣 to see Tony on the training horse was fantastic

Wow! In the USA, we look at a MacDonalds built in the 1950's and think we're seeing history. In England, a toy shop built in a building form the 1700's doesn't seem old enough as history!

The end phrase... Phil knows his name's etymology all right!

30 years ago I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath and lived in Newmarket, beautiful town.

Now that's the kind of rocking horse I dreamed of as a kid! 🐎😁🐎

I really enjoyed watching the gentleman in the digger or whatever you call it. He looks to be saying, "have they found anything yet?"

At 19:34 Phil says ¨ ...the King´s prize stallion and prize mare eating their oats and getting ready for the next great event.¨ I say Mr. Harding old chap, steady on, there may be children watching....

Believe it or not most times once the horse is lead to stable door they'll walk right in to their stall. Especially if their buddies on either side are in there.

😆 😝 Tony and his puns!

I love how the guys are all saying that the back of the toy shop isn’t old at all. Then a minute later says it only dates to the 1700s.

Look at Raksha's face at 25:26 , what a beautiful smile . So many lovely ladies appear on these shows.

Jackie just knows so much! I am here for the Jackie spinoff series.

I like that purple rose tie on Tony

lovely episode

racing and archeology.... heaven

Thank goodness you can fast forward thru the annoying parts.

Really enjoy younger programmes with Jackie and Richard :)

Back in the day, the riders rode with a straighter leg, not the short stirrup of today’s riding

The English brought it back they didn't create horse racing first. That started in Central Asia 4500 years ago.

Episode 246 (Season 19, Episode 4): The First King of Racing, Aired: February 12, 2012

👍🏻 definitely a watch

Thank you

I am surprised that you do not have a historic schetch of these buildings

Phil's tux is at the cleaners

OH MY GOD!!!! Phil Harding drinking champagne instead of his beloved ale/beer/larger ?????

Hey, it's Alex Langlands from the Victorian Farm!

27:23 at least they stuffed Roy Rodger's Trigger

“Me nuts” 😂

Why is the next best place to dig is so often under the spoil heap??

Series 19 Episode 4

Ahhh me nuts!! 😂😂😂😂

I never would have guessed that archeologists were so beautiful before watching this show

To new for me to watch 3 or 4th time

Until I started watching more British shows I didn't realize horse racing was such a big thing there, while it may have some large events, in most places in the U.S. it is far away from pop culture, a real sub-culture lifestyle, the whole geegee's bookies thing seems more pop-culture in the U.K. Oddly enough I have known two people who owned race horses in the U.S. you never would have guessed would have cared about horses or any sort of racing. 17:00 The horse looks more real than the on in the close ups with Toby McGuire in sea-biscuit.

The answer to the mystery foundation is simpke. They said he king we are building stables for a dozen. King replidd, make it hold more horses. And wider it became.

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It`s asphalt Tony, not ashphelt!

Yes, we 'Cowboys' here in California' use our sturips.................

Was the Grand Canyon the work of Archeologists?

OI, you a horse, here free food ,, what no I 'm a person . Well then no food for you!

Mary-Ann bringing nothing to the table, as usual, just reading off her cue-cards. I wonder why she's even there?

what happened to Stewart?

16:55 I thought only kids did that

Amazed how many city names in Canada are also cities in England!

Is it weird I'm jealous she got to touch Hyperions skeleton lol

The king got to pace the racers like the pace car today. It's good to be the king eh? Lol

10:28 damn why'd Henry have to blow the carpenter why not just pay him

Most racing horses are of the Arabian breed, meaning that is the breed's point of origin. Since they were bred for their speed, it stands to reason that they were raced, back in the day. Millennia before a horse ever set foot in England. So the claim of "oldest racing stables in the world" seems a little bit of a reach. Other than that, good fun with the ponies.

And then rain made Phil cry :(

17:15 tonys getting a little too comfortable with that fake horse

1:50. Is the dark haired wench Mick's bane? I don't watch episodes featuring Mick's bane

As soon as I see the new co-host I just switch off to another season.

Tony`s puns get worse.

I had to laugh , Phil looks just as scruffy even when he gets dressed up for the races ,,,

Health and Safety . 1 ft. down and they have to wear hard hats. Rediculous.

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Forgot the archeology, Mary Ann is quite stunning. 😍

Every time Mary Ann Ochata is on, I stop watching. I can't stand her simpering, and her pseudo knowledge. Pure window dressing.

Too much faffing about.

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Yes, the archeology in and of itself is really interesting because I an interested in history, but Mary-Anne, horses aren't possessions. They are living, breathing mammals - just like we are. Race horses are pushed until their lungs bleed or they break a leg and are killed. Race horses are NOT possessions. That is such a disgusting idea. I used to be involved in the office sweep for the Melbourne Cup until one year I got my money back because my horse collapsed and died. The following year 2 horses were killed at the Cup. Since then I have paid more attention to what these horses are actually put through. It is appalling and horse racing needs to be stopped. Yes, I really liked dressing up and wearing a pretty hat and drinking lots of bubbly but that is not even close to a good enough reason to put these horses through what we put them through. You might say - 'Oh, but I am not responsible for that". If you support horse racing, then yes you are and you need to be grown up enough to own that.

Effing euromilhoes ads. They should have their gambling scratch cards rammed down their throats. Some charity, trying to get people with little money addicted to gambling.

There it is again...Where the females are half a head or a full head bigger than the males. Why do I find this so strange? This is a rare occurrence in the U.S. I'm also aware not all the men in these videos are lightweights. I'm 6 feet, I had a female employee who was 5' 11", I weighed 170, she weighed 160 (and she was slim). She and I were both married, but not to each other, and I should shut up now.

Probably the worst time team episode except for the new ones they all suck.