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I use to ride in them about 25 years ago when i was 15(ie a skinny lanky kid!!!!!)
I always found the horses well looked after,but things could get a bit hairy if a gamble went wrong
I remember once in a race somewhere in Fife we had to race round the perimeter of a golf course,2 Glaswegians had a horse and it was simply £250 to the winner.
The poor guy on the Glaswegian horse slipped up at the second bend and i just cantered round.
I will never forget the kicking the dude got from the Glaswegians,from what i can remember the party i was with had to pull them off him and take him to hospital.
The chap i rode for was not short of a bob or two he owned a few butcher shops!!!and all he ever said to me is ”dont worry if you dont win youll both end up in my steak pies”!!!Dont think there is much flapping now..maybe in Wales and Ireland but that woulkd be it
Dont think there is much flapping now..maybe in Wales and Ireland but that woulkd be it
There are still flapping tracks in the South of Scotland, Hawick, Langholm and Irvive that I know of. I’m not aware of anything in Fife these days.
There’s a website covering the three courses
Rob
Thanks for that Rob
Looks alot more organised these days!!!!
I only ever raced in match races
which would be the closest flapping track to Bamburgh, and do they have these races at other riding out ceremonies? We went to the Coldstream riding out ceremony last year, and would like to go to some others this summer.
if you have a horse rated under 60 on the flat why pay 700-1000p/m training fees to win a grand on the all weather if your horse does win. think about it. train it yourself run it flapping for similar prize money what banded racing has to offer.;. dont be mistaken though dont think flapping is horses that could not win banded races, we have had people buy group 2-3 horses that couldnt win flapping races. most recent group horse was elvington boy.
Elvington Boy a Group horse ~ how amusing!
if you have a horse rated under 60 on the flat why pay 700-1000p/m training fees to win a grand on the all weather if your horse does win. think about it. train it yourself run it flapping for similar prize money what banded racing has to offer.;. dont be mistaken though dont think flapping is horses that could not win banded races, we have had people buy group 2-3 horses that couldnt win flapping races. most recent group horse was elvington boy.
Bang on……people can get great enjoyment out of doing their own thing. You may remember Glasgow Alhambra who won many flapping races (ridden by Jed, who’s surname I have forgotten) The fun you can have with a horse like that you can’t buy……I knew loads of guys who trained their own horse and it cost peanuts to keep them. They had great fun and made a few quid gambling at the flapping .You don’t need to be Harry Findlay to get fun out of racing….he’s just a guy with loads of money…great feeling knowing you have achieved something no matter how small it is to others.
Elvington Boy a Group horse ~ how amusing!
Harsh, but funny Rory – I think we all know what bf meant (i.e. grade/class), but still…
(also amusing that the thread sat there dormant for over five hours during the dead of night, until myself and FoF manage to rudely jerk it back to life at exactly the same time – weird and surely a pointer towards the interconnectedness of all things…)
Or to the fact that you share a mud hut with wireless internet somewhere on a Thai beach…
Or to the fact that you share a mud hut with wireless internet somewhere on a Thai beach…
Wouldn’t that be a sand hut?
Why do u get old and fat?????
I miss riding in the flaps!!!!!
How much is ”peanuts” when it comes to train your own horse on the flaps or point to points nowadays?
Use to ride a great big horse in the mid eighties called ‘Black Bob”’ he was bought from a big yard in yorkshire.
I won on him 4 times in a row,the guy who had him wasnt even a gambler did it for fun.
Then one day we were in a race over a golf course and went through some false ground and broke his canon bone,i cried like a baby(and not ashamed to admit it!)
I haven’t the faintest Idea what it would cost now keeping a horse for flapping, Back in the 70’s, there were so many places you could keep a horse round the Hawick area in some of the most unexpected places………seemed everyone has a couple of spare boxes…..I vaguely remember it costing some crazy low figure of 2 or 3 quid a week to rent one with a guy who kept about 20 horses up near the flapping track. He was happy to give you a discount if you mucked out yourself and supplied your own feed and you exercised some of the horses he looked after now and then………great place for people who weren’t that good to go and learn to ride as hewasn’t as fussy as the loacal trainer and half the horses couldn’t pull you out of bed. Seemed like I spent half my life riding back then as I used to ride out 2 or 3 lots at Rhona Oliver’s then in the late afternoon go up and take out the two horses one after the other…more if I had the time………probably be 5 to 10 times more costly these days depending on your own involvement.
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if you have a horse rated under 60 on the flat why pay 700-1000p/m training fees to win a grand on the all weather if your horse does win. think about it. train it yourself run it flapping for similar prize money what banded racing has to offer.;. dont be mistaken though dont think flapping is horses that could not win banded races, we have had people buy group 2-3 horses that couldnt win flapping races. most recent group horse was elvington boy.
Bang on……people can get great enjoyment out of doing their own thing. You may remember Glasgow Alhambra who won many flapping races (ridden by Jed, who’s surname I have forgotten) The fun you can have with a horse like that you can’t buy……I knew loads of guys who trained their own horse and it cost peanuts to keep them. They had great fun and made a few quid gambling at the flapping .You don’t need to be Harry Findlay to get fun out of racing….he’s just a guy with loads of money…great feeling knowing you have achieved something no matter how small it is to others.
that would be jed huggon
if you have a horse rated under 60 on the flat why pay 700-1000p/m training fees to win a grand on the all weather if your horse does win. think about it. train it yourself run it flapping for similar prize money what banded racing has to offer.;. dont be mistaken though dont think flapping is horses that could not win banded races, we have had people buy group 2-3 horses that couldnt win flapping races. most recent group horse was elvington boy.
Bang on……people can get great enjoyment out of doing their own thing. You may remember Glasgow Alhambra who won many flapping races (ridden by Jed, who’s surname I have forgotten) The fun you can have with a horse like that you can’t buy……I knew loads of guys who trained their own horse and it cost peanuts to keep them. They had great fun and made a few quid gambling at the flapping .You don’t need to be Harry Findlay to get fun out of racing….he’s just a guy with loads of money…great feeling knowing you have achieved something no matter how small it is to others.
that would be jed huggon
Remember the man and the horse well. They won regularly at Langholm which was probably the very first race meeting I ever attended. If you want to find the track it is easy. Coming from the south go through the town until you come to the area by the river we call the Kilngreen and look across it to the cricket pavilion. That is basically the line of the track the other side of the trees. It runs right handed and is totally flat and very tight it used to follow the line of the cricket club fence but goes further out now round what is left of Langholm Castle. The site is called the Castleholm. There is also a track at Selkirk which I believe has only one days racing on Selkirk Common Riding Day.
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