Beauty contest to pull in racegoers tonight.Byline: Graham Green. SEDGEFIELD Coordinates: Sedgefield is a large village in the borough of Sedgefield in County Durham, England. It has a population of approximately 5,000. Sedgefield is in the parish of Upper Skerne. is expecting this evening's meeting to attract a bumper crowd when it becomes the first racecourse to play host to an official beauty contest, writes Graham Green. One of the 20 finalists competing for the Miss Durham Durham, town and district, England Durham, town (1991 pop. 38,105) and district, county seat of Durham, NE England, on the sides of a hill nearly encircled by the Wear River. The town's small factories produce organs and carpets. title has promised to bring 51 friends - all newcomers to racing - and racecourse manager Jim Allen Al·len , Edgar 1892-1943. American anatomist who is noted for his studies of hormones and for the discovery (1923) of estrogen. , who previously launched Huntingdon's Mascot Grand National, is confident he has another hit on his hands. The sponsors, Betfred, have priced up the girls and the favourite is 19-year-old Natalie Smith at 5-1. Details of the contestants, who range between 17 and 22 in age, have been posted on the sedgefield-racecourse.co.uk website along with the betting and numbers for a phone vote that will form part of the judging process. MISS DURHAM Betfred: 5 Natalie Smith, 6 Abbie Whitehead, 7 Kayleigh-Anne Pattison, 10 Stacey Pooley, Sonia Hassanien, 12 Samantha Bennett, Abigaile Tennant, 14 Katie McCarthy, Charlotte Warburton, 16 Kate Bowman, 20 bar. |
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