If you missed Auction Night at the Rutting Elk Country Club

earlier this month, all I can say is: shame on you!

This year's raffle and auction was a roaring success,

thanks in large part to the comic stylings of Rutting Elk

auctioneer 'Bang Bang Charlie' (who looks an awful lot

like our own Stewart Morrison in suspenders and a straw hat!).

'Bang Bang' kept everything moving with his  fast-paced patter and

side-splittings asides. The biggest winner of the night? That would

have to be Cecil Froward. Cecil outlasted a blistering biddng war to

claim a Pillsbury Dough Boy cookie jar full of cookies baked

by Social Director Dorothy Feeney and signed by club president

Gavin Dill. Soon thereafter he won the South of the Border

Sangria Pitcher, filled with sangria made by our own 'Sangria Senorita',

Dorothy Pullman. But his biggest win was his victory in the tussle for the

portrait of Rutting Elk Stakes winner Preening Fop by that king of racetrack

Picassos, Rutting Elk's own horsey Holbein, Errol Flynt. Well done, Cecil, but

watch out – we'll all be stopping by your place for Sangria and cookies soon!