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Excellent thread, terrific read.
Any chance you boys could id this racetrack please?
Thanks in advance.
Perth, Wednesday 24th April 1991
Hilltown Property Company Limited Novices’ Hurdle 4-y-o only (2m) 16 ran.
Graham McCourt drives out the chestnut colt Alosaili to beat the bay gelding Souter’s Hill (Colin Hawkins) by three lengths. Meanwhile, in the background, Martin Brennan takes a tumble on the grey Eastern Pleasure.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Stretching credibility to breaking point, I was actually there that day. I’d gone up for the Perth festival with three friends, staying in the Green Hotel in Kinross, playing the golf course opposite the hotel each morning, then racing in the afternoon.
I probably had my back turned by the time that photo was taken though, as my diary reports a bet of £2000/500 on Edward Seymour, presumably based on stable info as I had a majority share in a horse with Stan Mellor at the time.
Nice one espmadrid, thank you.
ap, I was looking at an old sporting life from 1995, and thought you might like these
Viltash,
Thanks for posting that, interesting read. I met Geoff Lester a few times but the first encounter was pretty unexpected. I’d just returned from two years working in Kuwait and was looking to buy a flat. The agent sent me to view a two bed maisonette in Staines and when the owner opened the door I immediately recognised him from the picture that appeared by his weekly column in the Life.
It sort of confirmed that the place was an ideal base for going racing at Ascot, Windsor, Newbury and the London tracks!
Nice one espmadrid, thank you.
ap, I was looking at an old sporting life from 1995, and thought you might like these
Impressive performance…. https://youtu.be/f2VXLUmqxEw
and a previous hurdling success: https://youtu.be/4hlF5vSx1r8
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Thanks for uploading those clips of Dancing Paddy. Happy memories of the pleasures of midweek NH racing at Ascot.
Perhaps its me being a bit rose tinted, but to my eyes there’s a lot more information in that James Capel race report regarding how the race was run, then you’d ever expect to read in the Racing Post these days.
I love reminiscing about Horse racing and fav Horses,it never fails to amaze me how I cant remember much about most years but can associate horses for everyone of the past 30 odd yrs past.A great thread and title Alan,hope you can post a few more tales of past glories and maybe a few of your old fav Horses themselves.
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