Hi everyone

Hannah here:

I had a rockin evening yesterday when I got to meet the record-breaking 100-winners-in-a-season jockey, Hayley Turner.

I met her at a floodlit race night on all-weather racetrack Great Leigh’s in Essex. The atmosphere was amazing and seeing the steam billow off the hot horses in huge clouds when they had finished a hard race was surreal!

But night-time racing isn’t the only variation on horse racing. In Sanlucar, Spain, there is a horse race run along an 1800m stretch of beach, during August, which dates back to 1845! Rumour has it that the race started because fish buyers raced their horses along the beach as they waited for trawlers to bring their haul into port. Originally the race was for the rich and elite only but now it's a thrilling spectacle open to all. You can sit on the beach to watch with only a small mesh fence separating you from the thundering Thoroughbreds. And when the races have finished there is a massive party that’s open to the public! Where’s my passport…?!