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'He was said to have inspired the burly hunk on the Scott’s Porage Oats box': The history of the Highland Games
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'He was said to have inspired the burly hunk on the Scott’s Porage Oats box': The history of the Highland Games
Highland folklore relates that, upon attending the Braemar Gathering in Aberdeenshire, Queen Victoria was disconsolate to discover that her sporting favourite, Donald Dinnie of Balnacraig, had already taken his turn in the stone-throwing competition, the event with which Braemar was most closely associated. Hurriedly, an official was sent to ask the strapping Scot if he wouldn’t mind putting the 28lb stone again, for the benefit of the Queen Emp…
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