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1. Name the first racecourse I ever went racing at.
2. Name the first racecourse I ever saw NH racing at.
3. Name the first Classic I ever saw live.
4. Name the horse that won The Derby by seven lengths the day I took my Economics O Level.
5. Name the horse I walked out of my Latin O Level the next day to see win the Coronation Cup.
6. Name the French-trained horse which won the 2,000 Guineas the year I hitch hiked at Newmarket as a student and slept in a laundrette throughout the meeting.
7. Name the great stayer who beat Glint Of Gold in the Jockey Club Stakes the previous day.
8. Name the horse who hit the last fence but recovered in the run in to win the Hennessy in the autumn of the same year.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"1. Name the first racecourse I ever went racing at. STOCKBRIDGE
2. Name the first racecourse I ever saw NH racing at. WINDSOR
3. Name the first Classic I ever saw live. 1000 GUINEAS
4. Name the horse that won The Derby by seven lengths the day I took my Economics O Level. TROY
5. Name the horse I walked out of my Latin O Level the next day to see win the Coronation Cup. ILE DE BOURBON
6. Name the French-trained horse which won the 2,000 Guineas the year I hitch hiked at Newmarket as a student and slept in a laundrette throughout the meeting. ZINO
7. Name the great stayer who beat Glint Of Gold in the Jockey Club Stakes the previous day. ARDROSS
8. Name the horse who hit the last fence but recovered in the run in to win the Hennessy in the autumn of the same year. FIGHTING FIT
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Value Is EverythingBloody good effort!
Troy, Ile De Bourbon, Zino and Ardross ALL correct!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I just want to know if you managed to get any sleep in that laundrette. I can still remember trying to sleep in a public toilet in Bodmin when I was 17 ( I lived halfway between Bodmin and Camelford and the train stopped at Bodmin too late for me to get a bus. If, in fact, there was a bus). Didn’t get a wink of sleep as I was freezing. Didn’t think of finding a laundrette….
I got little, if any, sleep tbh.
But one of Bruce Hobbs’s head lads came in with laundry first thing the next day and he gave me Deportment (7/4) and Rushbeds (10/1) who both won – which was nice!
1982 – all seems like a far off dream I once had now.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The Hennessy winner would be Bregawn. No idea on your personal “firsts”, obviously, so I’ll guess Newbury, Wincanton and the Oaks.
Bregawn is correct!
My personal firsts are sheer self indulgence (apologies) and I wouldn’t expect anyone to get them.
Your guesses went awry.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The really bad news is I’ve had sufficent response to feel motivated to continue with this self-indulgence fest.
And the even worse news is we’re still only in 1982!
Anyway….
9. Somewhat fortuitously, as well as backing Bregawn @ 6/1 ante post in the Hennessy, I had 12/1 about him for the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup too. Which he won. But what was the venue for his prep race before Cheltenham?
10. Spring and I’m back at Newmarket for the Guineas meeting – but better organised and with friends (well, people who briefly barely tolerated me). They have things like a car and a tent and all that grown-up malarkey. Anyway, I’m in ante-post love with this horse I saw win the Acomb and the Champagne before a mysterious Dewhurst flop. And it was only fifth in the 2,000 Guineas, knackering my ante post bet. Its name?
11. Much better in The Derby where after a wet spring Teenso obliges at an ante-post 16/1 (those were the days). And I was on the absolute boat that finished runner up at monster odds too. Name of said vessel?
12. My Dad treats me to a trip “dahn sarf” for a day at Sandown and two at Ascot for the King George meeting. Highlight was this fella in a yellow suit who reminded us of the “Follow The Bear” lager adverts. Though Time Charter wasn’t bad either. Which other Oaks winner was third?
13. Now at the York August meeting to give my ante-post Classic bet flop yet another chance. Beaten again. Who won the Benson & Hedges?
14. Back at uni in the autumn and now the founding President of the Warwick University Turf Club. And consequently as exultantly up my own backside as it’s possible for any 20yo to be – if you think I’m bad now, you should have met me 38 years ago! First trip and we got in a rickety minibus (driven by a long-suffering mate) to Cheltenham for the Mackeson. And on a day when strikes meant it was not televised and no footage exists, I achieved temporary popularity by tipping up the winner to the whole bus at 8/1. Its name?
15. Off to Newbury next for the Hennessy and half the campus want to go after word of the Mackeson coup had got round, big coach hired his time. But I told them all to back the wrong one. Who was the right one?
16. We are at Stratford and we see horses win separate divisions of a novice hurdle who went on to feature in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in March. One won it, the other didn’t. Name the one who didn’t.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"80s racing is my forte, so here goes…
Hereford
Gorytus
Carlingford Castle
Sun Princess (who went on to beat Carlingford Castle in the St Leger)
Caerleon
Pounentes
Brown Chamberlin
PassA “Magnificent Seven” for Gladiateur!
Quality!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Not much left for me Ian, so I’ll guess at the 1st 3 that have not been identified.
1. Windsor
2 Sandown
3 The Derby
Sadly all wrong – I was a northern boy as a lad!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Ah, when you skipped class to see the Coronation Cup, you didn’t say
you saw it live. I should have clocked that
It’s a fair old way from Hull (where I lived) to Epsom – I just about made it home from the exam room at my school in time for the race!
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Looks like someone’s been on here morning, noon and night on Christmas Day
Great narcissistic thread, mind
If you’re a northern boy then it’s probably the St Leger your first classic live as it’s ran at Donny
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Correct!
1978 – Julio Mariner.
And Devon Ditty won the Flying Childers and Formulate won the May Hill.
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