Lanfranco Dettori riding Enable, trained by John H.M Gosden, owner Khalid Abdullah celebrate his victory during the Grand Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Hippodrome de Longchamp on October 7, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Scoop Dyga/Icon Sport via Getty Images)
A racegoer is hoping to reunite a ring with its owner after finding the piece of jewellery in her handbag.
Susie Sourwine was watching the racing with friends at Longchamp on Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe day on 7 October when there was a kerfuffle in the stand behind her.
A lady in the row behind her had lost a ring and was frantically searching for it.
The group all helped look, but thought it had fallen through the wooden floorboards of the grandstand.
“I was at a lunch meeting this week and went to grab a pen out of my open-topped bag when I spotted a ring in there and thought ‘where did this come from’?”Susie told H&H.
“We laughed about it and it wasn’t until I was on the train home I thought ‘that must be the girl’s ring’.”
She contacted French governing body France Galop and the racecourse to see if there was a lost and found facility, but without luck.
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One of her friends suggested she try the power of social media to reunite the girl with her ring and the tweet went viral.
At Longchamp on Arc day a girl behind us lost her ring. We all thought it went through the floorboard gaps. She was distraught. Today looking for a pen in the bottom of my open-topped bag I found a ring!!! Would love to get it back to her. Twitter do your thing! #arc2018#lostAt Longchamp on Arc day a girl behind us lost her ring. We all thought it went through the floorboard gaps. She was distraught. Today looking for a pen in the bottom of my open-topped bag I found a ring!!! Would love to get it back to her. Twitter do your thing! #arc2018#lost— Susie (@LittorallySusie) October 15, 2018— Susie (@LittorallySusie) October 15, 2018
“I tweeted it and then went to walk the dog and when I came back I had a message from my friend saying ‘that escalated quickly’,” said Susie, adding that her message has been retweeted more than 1,000 times and had more than 200,000 views.
“It is just the right thing to do as she was obviously really sad to have lost it. Social media gets a bad reputation sometimes, but this just shows the communication of people in our sport and how they are willing to do something kind and work as a whole to help someone.”
If the ring is yours — or you know who it belongs to — contact Susie on Twitter at @LittorallySusie
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Lucy is an experienced news journalist, reporter and presenter. Since joining the Horse & Hound team in 2015, Lucy has reported from major global sporting events including the Tokyo Paralympic Games and multiple European Championships, as well as Badminton, Burghley and London, to name a few. She has covered current affairs and sports news across the full spectrum of equestrian disciplines and racing, as well as human and equine welfare, industry news and court cases.
