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This programme contains some strong language

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Try to get in!

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Where is the judges?

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We all have five selections each and then we'll narrow it down to ten

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and then we'll pick the Best Dressed from there.

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Any time the girls are at the races and they win a prize

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or they get into the Best Dressed, they would get a rosette.

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MUSIC: Millennium by Robbie Williams

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As long as one of us is sort of in the top ten -

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they don't have to win - we're sort of happy.

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It's the same in the cattle world.

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If you've went out and you come last in your competition,

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well, you still like to think that judge has looked over your animal

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as much as the first person.

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It's not about having the hat and the bag and the shoes matching.

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It's about looking good and feeling good in your own skin.

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A little bit of chutzpah, you know?

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The start of the 2016 season for Best Dressed Ladies,

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a series of horse-racing fixtures that will begin at Punchestown

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and culminate with a show-stopping gala at Galway Races.

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This will be Emma Hanratty's second year.

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Last season, she won two Best Dressed Lady titles.

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People think that, because we have the races,

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we have such exciting lives

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and we get to do all these great things and stuff,

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but we just get dressed up one day

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and then the next day, it's just normal, you know.

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During the week, you're very...

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Like I'm very mummy mode and,

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you know, Oliver is, like, the most important.

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If you go down to the likes of the school

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and you do the school run and people will be on about your outfit

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or the teachers will be saying,

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"Oh, we seen you and Oliver in the paper," or...

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You know, things like that. It's nice comments to hear.

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I think it would give anybody a wee bit of confidence

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cos I'm sure any parent and any worker

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sometimes feels like they're just a parent or they're just a worker.

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Emma's friend Kirsty Farrell is also starting her second year

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of Best Dressed Ladies, but she has yet to win a title.

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For Best Dressed, obviously, it's an all-year sort of thing.

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Like, it runs right through winter and all summer.

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But I would usually go, like, the spring/summer kind of season,

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so it'll probably be from, like, March till

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August or so, I would do usually.

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Well, this is all the shorter dresses.

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Like, these would be suitable for wedding guests,

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like graduations, Holy Communion, anything sort of...

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Like, any special occasion.

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And then this is all full-length wear,

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so girls going to formals, debs, black-tie weddings,

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cruise - anything that you need a full-length dress for.

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And they're all organised in size, so they go...

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This side is all size four up to size 12.

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And then over here, we're 14 up to about 20.

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Kirsty works with her mum Rosie Farrell at their dress shop.

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I had no experience selling clothes.

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I couldn't get a job and I thought, "Well, I can sell anything.

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"I can sell lorries and I can sell cars.

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"Of course I can sell clothes." So, basically, it just went from that.

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I thought, "Well, if I can't get a job,

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"I'm going to create one for myself."

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It has advantages and disadvantages.

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It's easy to get to work.

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Work never finishes when it's at your door because you never go home.

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You're there all the time.

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You're always there if someone needs you.

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It's probably 24/7.

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Me and Kirsty are only really doing the races now.

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Well, it'll be two years now in July from our first ever race.

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There's girls that's been competing for years,

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erm, and, you know, they haven't won any.

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I love going and getting my hair done, getting my make-up done.

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You know, I love even the whole preparation

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of getting my outfit ready.

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We are exhausted this week.

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I was sleeping last night for, like, half nine.

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We do not know how the Kardashians can do this, like, every day.

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We'll not see the first race because they...

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They're judging around the first race.

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All the ladies meet at one point and they pick their top five.

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So, they announce it straight after the first race then.

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But me and Kirsty don't even know how to bet.

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-We're so bad, like.

-We need someone to pick for us.

-Yeah.

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We sort of get there early, so there's just one...

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-We try to get as close as possible.

-So you don't have to walk too far.

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-You, like, park on the grass, like.

-Yeah.

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Takes us long in the high heels, but it's only two minutes, like.

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-We'll be tripping along.

-Yeah, we'll be tripping along!

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Punchestown in Kildare is the first racing festival of the season

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that Emma and Kirsty will compete in.

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It attracts over 100,000 people

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and holds a prize that includes a year's supply of champagne

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for the best dressed lady.

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Right, that's your cream.

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We're taking these umbrellas, too.

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From the word go, the girls will be watched by judges from afar.

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They shortlist, and the finalists are invited to the stage,

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so it's vital to catch the judges' eye as early as possible.

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The judges aren't even here yet.

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Well, not here. They're... I haven't seen them.

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Oh, my God. Where is the judges?

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-You absolutely look stunning.

-Oh, thank you.

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She hates that! She's afraid of yous.

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How could you be afraid of an animal with eyelashes like me?

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-You're not so bad.

-Best of luck today, ladies.

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-Yous look brilliant.

-Thank you. Thank you.

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Finally, Emma and Kirsty are spotted by a judge.

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-Hello, how are you?

-Hi, how are you? I'm one of the judges today.

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-You look amazing.

-Thank you.

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All of you look incredible. Oh, my goodness.

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The judges are just doing their rounds,

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so they've come over and then they just take your details -

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the PR girls take your details -

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and then just take it from there then.

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So, we're going to do a wee walk

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just so they can see your outfit again

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and then you just have to wait then to see if you're final five or not,

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so it just depends. We're going to the bar!

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Even though they have been noticed by a judge,

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it's the all-important finalists badge

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that will get them to the stage.

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That's it. That's the last one.

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They have their five picked. That's it.

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Emma and Kirsty have not made the final list.

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-I'm, like, a sore loser.

-SHE LAUGHS

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-Is my eye all black? It is, isn't it?

-It's not at all.

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Absolutely gorgeous is our Roisin from Moone in Kildare.

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-I'm getting a chicken burger.

-I'm getting a cheeseburger.

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I hope that they have curry sauce.

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She looks absolutely fabulous here today.

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Jennifer is our pretty woman.

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-So, three chicken burgers and then two curry chips, yeah?

-Yeah.

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Absolutely gorgeous, and I love, love, love this outfit.

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-Ooh, I put vinegar!

-SHE LAUGHS

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I put vinegar on my...! I put vinegar on my burger!

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-The winner is Leona Skelly.

-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Well done, Leona. Congratulations to you.

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They picked her, number one.

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These are to die for. Is there any forks, no?

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Angela Caldwell has been winning prizes for several years

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with her unique line of clothing.

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Well, I collect most of them from charity shops,

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vintage shops, hand-me-downs, holidays.

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This dress came from New York.

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On average, I would pay about maybe £3, £4.

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£3.

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Yeah, £5.

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You know, we're all wearing something that hasn't cost a fortune

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and it is unique and it's a wee bonus that way.

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I haven't had to go out and spend £500 on an outfit

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and we've still been able to have a chance at winning, so...

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This was an old bridesmaid's dress

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and we shortened it, took it in, added on the lace.

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If you ever see a wee bird on the road, there's always a use.

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So, this was a nice top

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that made me look a little bit like Bet Lynch.

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All I've done is really recycled, reused the piece of material

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and make it into something that I can use, which is a hat.

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I think Stacey started it cos Stacey won Best Dressed

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at an agricultural show and won such a fabulous prize,

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I mean, that we were all sort of a bit shocked, you know,

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that, "Is that all you had to do

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"was, like, just sort of walk around a bit, get plenty of attention?"

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She, at that stage, won a holiday to Italy.

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She won an open-top car. She won a diamond ring.

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She won shopping vouchers and it was like, "Really?"

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So, I think that was really where the bug of actually dressing up

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and making the effort came from.

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And, I mean, from a personal point of view,

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I think it'd be very silly for any of the girls to go out and say,

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"Well, I've no hope."

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While some make their own hats,

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others are made by professionals, which is where Mairead comes in.

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The hat's the final thing you put on your head.

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You know, it's the first thing when you're walking through the crowds

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at a race meeting that somebody can see, is your face and your hat.

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There's, like, 29 hours of work went into that hat.

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So, do you know...

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..unless somebody's going to wear it three, four, five times,

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you know, it's probably more economical for them

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to hire that piece than to buy it.

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Getting something made, getting something custom-made,

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it's just a better finish for an outfit

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because the hat has been made to match not only the outfit,

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but the individual that's wearing it.

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One individual is Kirsty,

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and Mairead has made a hat based upon her dress.

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So, this is for...

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-You're wearing this to the Curragh?

-Yeah.

-Lovely. It's beautiful.

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This is all going to be pearl.

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-The whole way round?

-The whole way round.

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Yeah, top and bottom, so there'll be at least two rows of pearl, if not three.

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-OK, that's that sorted.

-Good.

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So, then Emma...

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-Emma's in Lanzarote, is she?

-Yeah, she went away there yesterday.

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But she'll be back in time for Sunday?

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-Yeah, she'll be back Thursday.

-Right.

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After not making the final ten in Punchestown,

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Emma is on a mission to impress the judges at the Curragh,

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their second race of the season.

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-Now I feel awful.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Kirsty was drinking last night.

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-What time were you up at this morning?

-I got up at eight.

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I had about ten alarms set in case I slept in.

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Do you have to enter for Ladies' Day or what way does it work?

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No, you just wander around.

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I'm not sure if they've been around already or not.

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I haven't seen anybody.

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Once again, the judges are watching from afar.

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We're judges. I've been judging for years and years and years.

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So, I publish Irish Tatler, so, naturally,

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it's a real exercise in making one friend and about 99 enemies.

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They're going to give bands. A couple of the girls have bands.

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-But we don't!

-We don't.

-THEY LAUGH

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We're sitting here sipping tea with no bands!

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It's a guessing game for Emma and Kirsty -

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who are the judges, and have they been spotted yet

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in order to get that all-important wristband?

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Their only plan? To keep on walking in the hope that they get noticed.

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Yeah, they could be, like, up there looking down

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seeing all the style as it walks in, you know that sort of way?

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So, they could be just doing that for the next maybe half-hour

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before they come down.

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But then the winner isn't announced till 4.30,

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so they could give out bands to 20 people and only pick ten,

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you know that sort of way? It just depends.

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But they watch everything. They watch how ladylike you are,

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what way you hold your drink - everything.

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I have seen some women today who are quite uncomfortable

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and that's just something that's going to get you ruled out straightaway.

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You've got to try and get that magic combination

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of looking good but feeling comfortable, as well.

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We'll do one more walk and then, if I'm not picked, I haven't a hope.

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-Hello.

-For Best Dressed?

-Oh, sure. Thank you so much.

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So, we meet at the horse statue, straight down, at quarter to three.

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-Is that OK?

-OK, perfect. Thank you so much.

-Great. Thank you.

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The red judge has shortlisted Kirsty,

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closely followed by the green judge who shortlists Emma.

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It's not even that you're worried because you want to get picked.

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It's worried that you want to see that somebody has seen your outfit,

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you know that sort of way? Like, have they actually seen the front

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and the back and all the detail?

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Like, it's plain, but it's still quite detailed.

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So, yeah, that's what you're more worried about

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rather than getting in.

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Out of this, they're going to pick, I think, ten girls.

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-Probably a top ten or something.

-Out of this, they'll pick ten girls.

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So, you'll just have to wait and see what's going to happen.

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From the short list, Emma and Kirsty are chosen to be in the final five.

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-I texted my mother.

-SHE LAUGHS

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Just sending the report through to Newry -

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there's two in the top five. That's a win. That's good.

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The nerves are evident for all five finalists,

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but only one can be the best dressed lady.

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-ANNOUNCER:

-The best dressed lady today is...

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..Kirsty Farrell.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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That's Kirsty's first win,

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and all the time, she's going out, do you know what I mean?

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And, like, I mean, you know how she felt this morning!

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So, maybe she should go out the night before in future!

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I'm your best friend.

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Where is she?

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Oh, my God. My mouth's pure twitching!

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Now, have you got a spare shopping bag?

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You've got to be hopeful!

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Angela and her sister Michelle are bargain hunting

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for their outfits for the Down Royal races.

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£2.50. Bargain.

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You never know when you might need a grey handbag.

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We're from a very strong line of females.

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Sure, our grandmother, she farmed up till she was 90.

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-It's in the family.

-It's in the blood, as they say!

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-But it just shows you. So, my gran loved the style, too.

-Yeah.

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You know, her wee brooches. She was a farmer

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and would have worked really hard all her life, you know.

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Passed away at 95.

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But she did love to get dressed up, too. It didn't matter.

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-Oh, that's lovely.

-Yeah.

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-Yeah, no, it's a perfect colour.

-Yeah, that's perfect.

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'I work long, long hours, and, you know,

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'would be in a very structured, routine job and stuff

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'and it's nice just to do something that's totally,

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'you know, outside that,

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'and we can share that passion with the girls.'

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I'll take that there. That'll do a hat.

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Cut it up.

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People can look at me and they think I'm very confident

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and they think I've got everything

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and I'm always out in these nice outfits.

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I have, you know, a journey ahead,

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which I don't know what that journey's going to be,

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so if I want to go out and enjoy myself, I'm going to do it.

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Last year, I was very, very ill,

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and our days of racing, I thought, was over

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and hence even all my buying

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and going round charity shops all stopped.

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I was in hospital for quite a bit

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and was diagnosed with a rare brain disorder.

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They also found an aneurysm, and I had spent quite a bit of time

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up until Christmas in and out of hospital.

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So much so that, actually, at the races at the weekend,

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someone said, "Where's all your nice, long, blond hair?"

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Having to explain that half of it was shaved off at Christmas,

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you know, due to illness, you know, they were quite shocked.

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People can look at me and they think I'm very confident

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and they think I've got everything

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and I'm always out in these nice outfits.

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I've had an illness that there's no cure for

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that may, through time, affect my mobility,

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my eyesight and my hearing.

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It'd be nice with long black gloves and a nice...

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Sure, it's only £4.

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It's quite good now because, you know,

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my family are very supportive, due to my illness and all.

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Used to be I had to go round charity shops on my own.

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Now I have people come and carry my bags, drive the car.

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"Oh, yes, don't be going on your own."

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It's great, so I work it to my advantage!

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SHE CHUCKLES

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You know there's something wrong when you can't even lock the door!

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Angela and her family are going to the Down Royal races,

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the highlight of the Northern Irish horse-racing season,

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which has been going since the 17th century.

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Also there is Kirsty,

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fresh from her win at the Curragh races.

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See you tomorrow morning if you find that lying at the bottom of the bed.

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-Fuck!

-SHE LAUGHS

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Unlike other Best Dressed competitions,

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the women are not being watched from afar.

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They are photographed on arrival

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and then phoned by a judge if they have been shortlisted.

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What happens now? This is where you can either act like Brown's cows

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and just stop and parade round

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and do laps and get blisters on your feet,

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or you do the sensible thing and you start betting on the horses

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and just relaxing. And if they're interested -

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if they've seen your picture, they're interested -

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they'll come and find you.

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Thanks very much, dear. Good luck.

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7-2. I don't know what that means!

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-What colour is your horse?

-Well, they're all brown, aren't they?

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-No, your man, not the horse.

-I don't know.

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-COMMENTATOR:

-'On the near side, Cheers Buddy.

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'Cheers Buddy's picked up. Pierre D'Or - not much between them.

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'Ask Dad is third, but it's Cheers Buddy.

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'In the closing stages, Cheers Buddy...'

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CHEERING DROWNS OUT SPEECH

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-Is that a win?

-No, you didn't win!

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-Yes!

-Is that it?

-90 quid.

-That's it?

-Whoo!

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That lasted, like, two seconds. I could have run that.

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But the real race has yet to be run,

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as Kirsty and Angela wait to receive a judge's phone call

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that will put them on the short list.

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I'm in the top ten!

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-Mummy's in with a chance!

-SHE LAUGHS

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So, I'm telling the girls to check their phones just in case.

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Top ten, bitches!

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We're like little horses in the parade ring.

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We've got, I think, ten finalists in our Best Dressed. And the outfit?

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Oh, my usual - I'm head to toe in charity shop

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and I made the hat during the week myself.

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-Fantastic.

-CHEERING

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The person who's going to be the most popular person

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looking for somebody to go to Las Vegas with her for five days

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in a fabulous five-star retreat...

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..is Kirsty Farrell.

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-CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Congratulations, Kirsty.

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-What?!

-Vegas, baby!

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-Oh, my God, I can't cope.

-Vegas!

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Oh, you'll see Celine Dion. See Celine Dion!

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-Oh, I'm so excited!

-SHE LAUGHS

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I'm shocked that, actually, I did get into the final ten.

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I did look around today and the standards were very high.

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We'll go home and the horses still need mucked out

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and the animals need fed.

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It mightn't be in this particular outfit.

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I probably will take the hat off!

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The final race of the season is Galway,

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and the pressure is mounting.

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These few weeks are crazy-busy, you know.

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That's why I don't get to go down to Galway myself,

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because when Thursday arrives,

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you know, we're just that exhausted

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from working over the last couple of weeks in preparation for it.

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So this is Kirsty's hat for day one.

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This is the back of the hat here.

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The floral details will sort of nest into her hair.

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So I know it's definitely different, like,

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it's really like a race-day statement hat.

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I sound as if we're in Ibiza.

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We would like to have a good bit of red across here in the front.

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I don't think there needs to be that much turned up on that.

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-There.

-Definitely touching on the ground. Yeah.

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It's going to be knockout.

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We're really not in the mind-set, for Galway,

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to get into a top ten or to get into, you know, anything.

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We're just going to be different.

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-No, we're really not.

-No, I am.

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Youse are going to get in the top ten this year!

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Well, I know I won't.

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Well, we're going to put in an effort and we're going to try our best.

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If we get into the top ten, I would like two in, that would be great.

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And youse call me competitive!

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I hope it fits!

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I might have to add a wee strip in.

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And what I cut off the bottom I could make myself a hat with!

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Galway races it is, then, on Thursday.

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MUSIC: A Little Respect by Erasure

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Galway is the richest National Hunt race in Ireland.

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There is a 10,000 euro prize for the best-dressed lady.

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Emma and Kirsty have arrived early

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to get their hair and make-up done in the city.

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We're wrecked though.

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Like, we didn't get to bed till, like, 2:30am.

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So we were up and still talking about outfits

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and, like, "What do you think the judges will go for?"

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and, "Who do you think's going to get it?"

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I feel a wee bit sick, to be honest!

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Not a hung-over sick this time,

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I actually feel a wee bit, I don't know, actual sick.

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So I probably am ready for a break, yeah.

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It's taking its toll on me.

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I'm going to say get out there, girls, and give it your best shot!

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MUSIC: Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds

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Spotters will allocate pink bracelets to the finalists,

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who are then invited into the judge's tent.

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Only finalists and judges can enter.

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We kind of want somebody who's standing out,

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who's not particularly here to be, you know, to win the prize,

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but who just happens to be looking very well,

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looking very stylish and elegant and is having a good time at the races.

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Hold on a second - this is going to blow away.

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Oh!

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There'll be 25 people selected among the five of us.

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We all have five selections each,

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and then we'll narrow it down to ten

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and then we pick the best-dressed from there.

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But youse have lovely stock.

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I have had a wee look there online and stuff.

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But it is all, like, high-end glamorous, it's stunning.

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'There's little else that can be done -

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'apart from stay close to the tent

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'and hope to be invited in.'

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-So beautiful.

-Thank you.

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I will send a picture to China.

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Ben, do you like the whole best-dressed side of things?

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No, do you like the racing side of things? No.

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You always look stunning anyway, and your hats are just amazing.

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I just haven't got the budget yet to buy one! But someday, maybe.

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People are trying more, sort of thing.

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I think it's getting more of a big thing,

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like people are putting in more an effort.

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OK, we're going to... The judges are deliberating.

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It is getting harder and harder, you know,

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to say that, you know, we've won and we've been picked

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is a good achievement.

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Another win for the top ten would be good.

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As our judges have laid their cards on the table

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we can announce the top ten.

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The waiting game is over.

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Well, how did you get on?

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Not good.

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Well, we didn't get picked.

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..in Galway, for those lovely goody bags...

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I've had my time, I think, so I'm happy for everybody up there.

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The top ten is a win for us.

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You know, a top 20 or a top ten or to get acknowledged.

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But, you know, like, we're on Facebook at the minute

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and the feedback that we're getting from Facebook

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is nearly better than winning, you know, from our outfits.

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And there's another advantage in not being selected.

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As soon as I seen the last finalist getting her badge,

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I was like, "Right, shoes off!"

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That's me done.

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I'm going for the fun of it anyway.

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Yes, I would love to have a size-eight figure

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and I'd love to be six foot tall,

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and I'd love to be winning all round me,

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but I have to be realistic.

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My family is my life,

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and more so now that I have been ill, you know,

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they are more important to me.

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I mean, I go on my holidays with my mum and my aunt

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and I take my 80-year-old uncle to the races and things,

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because that's what it's about.

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It's about sharing those good days out with your family

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and having a laugh.

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The biggest thing that we've learnt this year

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is that, like, well, we've learnt how to bet, so we can bet now.

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So we don't just come for the Ladies' Day!

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Obviously the papers aren't going to pick you all the time to put in.

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This is a kind of a phase and it will drizzle out and I thought,

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yeah, obviously, that's going to happen.

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I'm not always going to make it into the top ten or the top five,

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this is a phase.

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Maybe this will be my year, sort of thing,

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and then next year they'll be like, "Right, it's time for someone new,"

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so I'll probably...

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That'll happen!

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