CHEPSTOW Racecourse's Clerk of the Course Tim Long takes charge of his seventh and final Coral Welsh National day on Monday 28 December.
Tim currently divides his time between Britain's newest racecourse at Ffos Las in west Wales and Chepstow. From 2010, he will concentrate exclusively on the Carmarthenshire track.
He has been a senior clerk at Chepstow Racecourse's owner Northern Racing for three years, having first joined the Monmouthshire track in 2003.