Combine Goodwood, Galway, dogs and a donkey derby for ultimate sporting week

1 Visit Moran's on the Weir
It is a few miles out but getting to Kilcolgan is worth every last penny of petrol. The seafood chowder is as good as you will get anywhere, but it is the warm salad of black tiger prawns with chorizo and baby potatoes that has had me salivating for the last 12 months thinking of my return. The setting on the weir makes it taste even better and the staff are always smiling. That smile is contagious too.

2 Watch the Sussex Stakes in the Ladbrokes tent
Goodwood might be glorious but not half as glorious as watching the action from the Chichester track in the stuffy Ladbrokes tent on course at Ballybrit. The roar when Rip Van Winkle skipped clear back in 2009 frightened the life out of the runners in the Galway Plate and who can forget the marvellous Missunited winning the Lillie Langtry Stakes in 2014. The tarpaulin is still trembling. Get on The Gurkha in the Sussex Stakes on Wednesday, squeeze into the tent and revel in the roaring.

3 Sample Supermacs at 3am
So long are the queues that you would swear Bruce Springsteen was inside devouring a chicken fillet burger. If you want to see curry sauce dripping off chins, hear sing-songs so out of tune you won't even recognise the song and find an old school mate that you have not clapped eyes on since you copied his homework before hitting puberty, Supermacs is the spot for you. The later, the better.