The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race® was dreamed into life by Simon Thackray as he stared out of a window at his local pub one sunny Sunday afternoon back in the early 90s. Like Jack and the Beanstalk, this small seed grew into something much bigger… “soon it’ll be like Woodstock: people will pretend they were there – people will want to say, ‘I was there when it all started'” Independent on Sunday.