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I have a story I need to get off my chest that has been hurting for years and years. If you have also been bent over and had to take a large, spiky one from Lady Luck then please share it here to make me feel better.
My nightmare involves the Racing Post Ten-To-Follow competetion from 1993. Heading into the last weekend of the end of the May monthly competiton I was in third place, a few points off the two leaders.
Down to race in different races on the last saturday of the month I had Jack Berry’s Paris House whilst my two rivals had a horse called Pay Homage of Ian Balding’s. If Paris House won and Pay Homage did not then I was going to be five grand richer (or five grand less broke). Ok, fair enough at just nineteen years old I would probably have just spunked the money away but that’s not the point. It was mine. I could taste it.
Obviously as Paris House was racing first, should he win, I would beg, borrow and steal every penny I could and lump it on Pay Homage. At least I would have, had I not been somewhere in Europe for the matches between England and Poland in Katowice and then against Norway in Oslo a few days later.
Somewhere I managed to get hold of a newspaper and read the racing results. Paris House 1st. Great. Pay Homage 1st. 8-1. Eight to bloody one. I’m not ashamed to admit I cried.
Oh and England lost 2-0. Did I not like that.
Oh Librettist I feel your pain
.My hard luck story is probably being a Boro fan
Apart from that, it was the King George that Barton Bank had sewn up, and my ante-post voucher was glittering with gold.
When I say ‘had sewn up’ – what I really meant was 6 furlongs clear with Adrian Maguire only needing to pop the last. A bad blunder, and the rest they say is history – my ante-post voucher ended up going on the log fire
Mike
You know what, I had my then biggest ever bet (£100) on Barton Bank that day too. 5-1 if memory serves.
Was it the Two Ronnies did that sketch about the worlds unluckiest man – [man bends down to pick up milk bottles from front porch just as nubile, well proportioned female opposite comes to her front door, topless] ?
Where would any of us be without a hard luck story?
My one is following the fortunes of a Mr Jim Joel’s horse trained by Josh Gifford…Lyphento…Leafy Lingfield, £50 to win tax paid…won on the bit at 8/1 as I recall. At the time I was only earning £27.50 a week on a YTS so you can imagine my cocky swagger to the pay out counter.
I wasn’t quite as cocky as I walk with the whole shop laughing at me…I’d written 3.00 Lingfield…I’d written £50.00 win Tax paid. I’d forgotten to write the name of horse!
I’m another Barton Bank (King George) hard luck story.
I had him in an ante post each-way double with Master Oats in the Welsh National (won). Can’t remember the sums involved, but I do remember it would have paid for Xmas that year.
I don’t care if I get stick for this or not but I’ve earned my spurs on this website!
Today is the second day since the turn of the year that I DIDN’T do a Lucky15 on Saturday.
Last time 3 of the 4 won so I lost out on approx €600 because of it.
Today … all 4 won … €4,000 NOT WON.
I’m absolutely gutted.
I apologise because this is not the sort of thread that normally appears here but words fail me and the wife won’t understand,.
What a kick in the knackers!
I feel your pain, David.
Cheltenham
I had gone to the bookies to put a large bet on Dawn Run and a 3 cross when I read in the sporting Life that some guys had won the Jackpot 6
I had about 30 quid left and decided to have a go.
Backed the Jackpot 6 to small stakes taking 2 or 3 or 4 horses in each race, the day Dawn Run won the Gold Cup.
Solar Cloud started of the day at 40/1 and from then on in I wasn’t only getting the winner I was geting the 2nd and third as well in every race.
I was in a Mecca shop waiting for the last race and had two horses inn it. I had no idea how much I was waiting for as it involved bonuses for the first 4 and the 2nd in the fifth and one for the first 5 and placed horses in the last or something along those line.
Dawn run had already run and I had the first two legs of my 3 cross up Jobroke aand Charter Party…………I was waiting for Western Sunset on that line and also had him in the last leg of my Jackpot six along with a horse of Fred Winter’s called Half Free
There was no vdeo the and according to the commentator Western Sunset took it up at the last and went 3 lengths clear from Fifty Dollar More also Winters (by memeory) and Half Free………….soon as he hit the rising ground he stopped dead and Half Free and FDM both passed him and he finished 3rd. As Western Sunsset was the much bigger price of the two I was getting quite excited………….when Half Free won I was cursing at the commentator as he had said Western Sunset was going away one minute and beat the next.
Turned out to be a great day as the Jackpot paid me just over 14K and with my double and bet on Dawn Run I had won just over 20k.
However according to the girl in Hills if Western Sunset had won I would have topped 100K………So I was happy and sick at the same time.
Hard Luck
Was over ten years ago and a six horse accumulator, I can’t even remember any of the horses I had in the bet now, but can remember that the first five all won and I had roughly £680 going on to the last one which was something like a 4/6 shot and the shortest price of the lot. It got well and truly stuffed anyway and let me down for what would have been a very large amount for me back then.
Good Luck
Not the biggest amount I ever won this one, but certainly the most enjoyable. It was when Moonax won the St.Leger, I think it won at 40/1, but I had a fiver each way on it at 66/1. There’s just something that more enjoyable about having a winner at those kind of odds. Another factor that made it worthwhile, was the fact that I had sneaked away from my sister’s wedding to go to the bookies and back it and watch the race. Can remember the looks I got in the bookies, a youthful 18 year old suited up carnation and all screaming Moonax home.
Ahh the memories.
Understand that I am literally poor folks – not a cent in my pocket.
I think I selected about 8 winners with in-the-black prices yesterday. Would have made a damn fortune. Instead, I watch my punting mates pull out their crispy $100 notes and have a delightful day.
I still had a delightful day though – constant euphoria sweeping over me even this morning. I just love racing to the bottom of my heart.
Not really a hard luck story but I always try and pass it off as one (and get very little sympathy in the process
)I got a Placepot up at Royal Ascot a couple of years ago and won around five hundred quid which, given my usually moderate staking, was one of my biggest pick-ups for quite a while. It was only when casually studying the results again later in the day that I realised that had I played the Jackpot I would have picked up in the region of twenty-two grand.
But then again – you can count the number of times I’ve ever played the Jackpot on the fingers of one hand, so really I’ve got absolutely no right to moan whatsoever.
I still find every opportunity to do so, though
My best ever win was the placepot at Southwell when they held the Great Yorkshire Chase and won £170 and a bit for my £1
Worst one was in 2001 at Aintree, for some reason i could not stop looking at Red Marauder in the parade ring, What an ejit
Was in a pub with my friend reading the racing pages. He said to pick out three horses and we’d do a £10 treble.
I remember them Swynford Pleasure, Compton Commander and Coppington Flyer.
Got a taxi into town and missed the first race. Swynford Pleasure won.
Did Compton Commander indvidually and won £200 but decided not to do the last one on the advice of someone else. All three won.
Prices 10-1, 9-1 and 8-1 as far as i remember. We missed out on ten grand each that day.Bill smith riding a decent horse called lineshooter,which was the fourth leg of a yankee,needless to say the first 3 had won, lineshooter was a fence clear coming to the last, he jumped it cleanly was going away and mysteriously smith fell off, never backed a horse he was on after that.
I don’t care if I get stick for this or not but I’ve earned my spurs on this website!
Today is the second day since the turn of the year that I DIDN’T do a Lucky15 on Saturday.
Last time 3 of the 4 won so I lost out on approx €600 because of it.
Today … all 4 won … €4,000 NOT WON.
I’m absolutely gutted.
I apologise because this is not the sort of thread that normally appears here but words fail me and the wife won’t understand,.
What a kick in the knackers!
I feel your pain, David.
Whatever you do don’t tell the wife she might understand and not talk to you for a week
It’s not much consolation but if you can do it once????……….chin up mate nothing worse when you have been doing something every week like that and this happens. Hope you get it back with interest at Chelt
sat, i decided to have a go on the place pot at 20p a go .did 3×1 bankerx3x2x2x1banker=36bets at 20p=£7.20.and what happened.my banker inthe second race was 2nd but they took 2 horses out leaving just 4 runners and it all went on the win .i still feel sick .i hope to get over it by tuesday !
Keep doing that bet mate I was barred from doing it in a samll bookies years ago…………if you land lucky and catch the first 4 with a couple of big prices the bookies can have 4. 6 or even 9 times the commitment and can’t lay it off………get to the 5th leg and there’s mega panic……….probably ban you like they did me
but it’s agreat fun bet………
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