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Lets me down for going through the card as a tipster in 1988 in my days at The Guardian when 17 lengths fifth in a 2m 4f Leicester maiuden hunter chase then goes and wins a Gold Cup at 100/1 – that’s racing! LOL
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I remember it well. We got carved up, as all the local Bikers had latched onto the Norton part of the name and were banging £5 and £10 each-ways on him.
It was the ultimate bad medicine for a bookie, because they were hit and run punters, whom you would never get a chance to win the money back from.
I recall Graham McCourt reaching down on the way back in, and snatching somebody’s wig off the top of their head, before shaking it vigorously in celebration!
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Richard Dunwoody had ridden the horse and said how good it was, prior to the horse running badly due to not being 100% Probably to blame for me constantly trying to find 100/1 winners. I’ll spontaneously combust when it happens.
This one always brings back memories for me. Always used to stay at my mum’s in Bristol for the week and travelled up to Cheltenham from there. My mum, who knows nothing about racing, always used to give me money to place some bets on her behalf. Gold Cup day she picked out Nortons Coin and asked me to put a couple of quid on it. She asked me what chance it had and I replied ‘none’. I convinced her to change her mind and choose something else. She still regularly reminds me of it.
This one always brings back memories for me. Always used to stay at my mum’s in Bristol for the week and travelled up to Cheltenham from there. My mum, who knows nothing about racing, always used to give me money to place some bets on her behalf. Gold Cup day she picked out Nortons Coin and asked me to put a couple of quid on it. She asked me what chance it had and I replied ‘none’. I convinced her to change her mind and choose something else. She still regularly reminds me of it.
I persuaded my younger brother not to put his pocket money on Sibton Abbey when he won the Hennessy at 40-1. Just as well blood is thicker than water.
It was Sirrell Griffith’s hat that Graham McCourt threw away Steve.
Remember it well; incredible race, crab his form all you like, but best on the day, like Lord Windermere, or Cool Dawn
My favourite Norton’s Coin moment actually wasn’t in the Gold Cup but rather in the Mira Silver Trophy a couple of years later. It was as enthralling a game of cat and mouse as one could hope to see, with Graham McCourt on Norton’s Coin and Richard Dunwoody on Waterloo Boy stalking Jamie Railton on Pegwell Bay; scintillating stuff.
I remember our boss Roger telling us to lay it all day cos the Welsh bookies were all hedging it with us !! The language was unrepeatable at the end of the race and it was a BLACK Thursday for Turner and Kendrick and what made it worse was everyone kept saying what a result for the bookies!!
This one always brings back memories for me. Always used to stay at my mum’s in Bristol for the week and travelled up to Cheltenham from there. My mum, who knows nothing about racing, always used to give me money to place some bets on her behalf. Gold Cup day she picked out Nortons Coin and asked me to put a couple of quid on it. She asked me what chance it had and I replied ‘none’. I convinced her to change her mind and choose something else. She still regularly reminds me of it.
Ken,
My son first got into racing aged about seven and, after seeing New Aporoach narrowly beaten in the 2,000 Guineas, begged me to back him for The Derby and take the 70 at Betfair.
“It is 70 for a reason – it isn’t going to run,” I repeatedly said.
Suffice to say the something like ten times shorter price we took after Bolger’s u turn was something my boy took years to forgive me for! Lol!
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