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Hi there,couple of years ago on here some brilliant person on here was able to help me..im hoping they can again
In 1978 or 1979 my dad put on a 10p ew ITV 7 for me 6 out of the 7 won,the one in the last leading almost fell but i think finished 3rd Jonjo ONeill was on it…all i can really remember was IRISH TONY AND TONY BOTH won on my slip
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Thirty years is a long time to get over a loser, Ghost. Have you considered therapy? Take it on the chin, son. There’s always tomorrow.
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KenJaysis! I get fewer and fewer clues but give me an hour or so and I’ll have an answer……
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Every chance that would be the day Irish Tony won the Rowland as it’s always been televised. You won’t find those results on the internet now Ghost and it would take some memory to remember any other horse that ran in that race never mind what was 3rd in the ITV 7
Every chance that would be the day Irish Tony won the Rowland as it’s always been televised. You won’t find those results on the internet now Ghost and it would take some memory to remember any other horse that ran in that race never mind what was 3rd in the ITV 7
That was Boxing Day 1976 so too early; I believe it was either the 14th or 21st of December 1978 when both Tony and Irish Tony won televised races, but it’s hardly easy checking the other results with no clue to even which race we should be looking at, never mind a horse name. I believe Adrian might have the form books for that season (sadly I don’t) and could provide the answer.
Every chance that would be the day Irish Tony won the Rowland as it’s always been televised. You won’t find those results on the internet now Ghost and it would take some memory to remember any other horse that ran in that race never mind what was 3rd in the ITV 7
That was Boxing Day 1976 so too early; I believe it was either the 14th or 21st of December 1978 when both Tony and Irish Tony won televised races, but it’s hardly easy checking the other results with no clue to even which race we should be looking at, never mind a horse name. I believe Adrian might have the form books for that season (sadly I don’t) and could provide the answer.
Would it help if I could find out where the ITV7 was from on those dates?
Craig
Wasn’t that the race where, following drug tests on the winner and second, several weeks later the third horse was promoted to first place?
Would it help if I could find out where the ITV7 was from on those dates?
Craig
It wouldn’t go astray, but my resource is blank for the whole month so I might struggle. If it helps you Craig, Irish Tony won at Nottingham and Tony won at Catterick. I’m guessing both those races were on the same day and so provide two of the legs. It’s also a bit of a guess as to whether either of my dates are correct and it could be the 28th. Hell it could be the 7th, but Irish Tony beat Rubstic at Haydock on the 30th November so might have needed time to recover, hence my logic.
Cancel all that; got my dates confused! The day of this near momentous event was definitely the 16th day of December in the year of Our Lord 1978. Now someone else can consult their old formbooks.
In the last ITV 7 race of that day, Eminence, the 8/13, was 2nd beaten a half length, having been left in the lead at the second last and making an error at the final flight he was just touched off by Clems Boy.
The other ITV 7 winning horses that day were:
Little Owl 15/2
Irish Tony 3/1
Silver Shadow 6/4
Cavity Hunter 6/4
Santon Brig 7/4
Tony 9/2That is why this is the best forum on the planet!!!!!thankyou to everyone
What meetings and what date was thar Lyphard????
Cant remember what i won…it was either 10pew or 20p ew over 30 years ago but feels like yesterday.
IRISH TONY was one of my favourate horses when i was a kid,use to wear quite a big sheepskin nose band(memories at the corner of my mind……)
That is why this is the best forum on the planet!!!!!thankyou to everyone
What meetings and what date was thar Lyphard????
Cant remember what i won…it was either 10pew or 20p ew over 30 years ago but feels like yesterday.
IRISH TONY was one of my favourate horses when i was a kid,use to wear quite a big sheepskin nose band(memories at the corner of my mind……)
FWIW, at the time the updates on the bet between races were given to a 10p stake.
Here is one for the geeks….1978, I think Peter Scowcroft was still reading the betting and results on World of Sport (Bob Colston doing the football) and John Tyrrell took over in 1980. I think….I was only four at the time.
And I remember Ken Butler presenting half of the ITV7 from Warwick.
Julian Wilson was offered the main commentator job at ITV in 1981 and turned it down. Why did John Penney go from #1 in the pecking order to #3 behind Raleigh Gilbert?
I thought John Penney was an excellent commentator, but I could never quite place his accent and I really didn’t get to know him, which I would have liked. I do have one of his color charts for the 1976 Peter Cazalet/Anthony Mildmay Chase from Sandown. IMO, he did more prep work than O’Sullevan but you seldom hear John Penney’s name come up in peoples list of favorite racecallers.
Craig
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