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Barnett is relaxed and smiling as Prom Dresses 2011 explore the course, a right-handed one-mile six-furlong track set in 179 acres leased from the Crown Estate. 'The roar of the crowds, the thunder of hooves -- it's magic to me,' he says. He walks the course every race day, driving the tip of a walking stick into the ground to assess the 'going'. Walking the course also keeps him fit. There is no fat on Cocktail Dresses athletic frame and he has the tanned face of an outdoorsman. Barnett grew up in Oxfordshire, belonging to the local pony club and riding in point-to-point meetings. But he never saw his love of horses and riding as leading to a career, instead opting to work for marine insurer Thomas R Miller in the City after reading law at Oxford. He later Elegant One Shoulder Mermaid Prom Dress as a solicitor -- spending five years with shipping company Bibby Line looking after legal affairs, insurance and business development. He was then offered the chief executive role with Haydock Park Leisure Company, which also ran Haydock Park racecourse. 'My interest in horses was a plus factor, but business skills Elegant Strapless Ball Gown Prom Dresses the prime requirement for managing racecourses,' he says. Nine years later, Barnett joined the high-profile Aintree Racecourse as managing director, plunging him into two headline-making events that cemented a growing reputation as a safe pair of hands for crisis management in the racing world. The 1993 Grand National was declared void after 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise there was a false start. 'As some horses actually completed the course, the race could not be run again,' says Barnett.