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I’ve still got all mine although would imagine all told have nothing like the collection that you have Paul.
Mind you I’ve had work colleagues give me racecards from meet they have been to including one who every year goes to the likes of Happy Valley & Sha Tin.
Those cards are separated from my own collection.I used to make a note in the racecards of the bets I had but nowadays just fill in the results afterwards in the space provided.
I used to make a note in the racecards of the bets I had but nowadays just fill in the results afterwards in the space provided.
I used to be the same – the early cards are covered in scribbles, the trouble is my writing is so bad I don’t have a clue what the scribbles mean.
Nowadays I try to keep the cards pristine if at all possible. I normally do my own "working" racecards before racing. If I cannot do them in advance then I will get two cards on course – one as a "working" card and the other to be the pristine one. It’s strange how one gets these silly way of doing things.
The ‘worst’ racecard I’ve got was for a ‘one race’ meeting at Taby in Sweden this summer. Until arriving at the course I hadn’t quite grasped the fact that there was only one race taking place especially for the Sunday Combination bet. Thankfully I managed to back the winner Choruzzo at around 7/1, and a very helpful Tote lady photocopied the form sheet posted on the board which passed as a ‘racecard’.
At the other end of the scale, we went to Laurel Park a few years back during a visit to Washington D.C. When I approached the programme seller I was offered the Laurel Park programme for $1.50, which was very good value, or the Simulcast programme with full form details for thirteen meetings for $3.50. I went for the Laurel only option, and used the form details to record an impressive $1.80 profit on the day!
I used to do the same as Paul Ostermeyer, both with racecards and football programmes, buying two and using one as a working copy. My approach has developed in the same way, and I now mark up a notebook rather than the racecard.
Rob
I quite like the cards that also have editorial in as well – giving something to read in the quieter moments. There is one – Ayr if I remember correctly – which has a very good "welcome message" inside teh cover. Instead of the usual, often boring, "welcome to the course" and "thanks to our sponsors" stuff it can contain some controversial comment – most refreshing.
Cartmel cards are usually a joy as well – frequently a disarmingly honest summary of the course’s current trials, tribulations and successes (financial or otherwise) from Lord Cavendish, and sometimes some nice reproductions of card details from many years before (such as facsimiles of the first ever Bank Holiday racecard from 1969 on one occasion in 2007).
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Glad to see Rob’s posting as I thought I was the only one to keep every racecard from every meeting I have been to.
I do the same, despite the fire risk of all that paper!
I am actually missing four from my collection, and the memory isn’t quite what it was (a worrying admission ahead of a quiz date…
). I’ve found all the runners and riders from the corresponding meetings in Chaseform annuals and the like, but if anyone possesses the cards for these, could they perhaps let me know who the duty commentators were on each occasion, please?Wolverhamption – 28th March 1983 (my first ever raceday!)
Uttoxeter – 29th May 2000
Wetherby – 2nd December 2000
Cartmel – 25th August 2001 (I’m guessing either Johnnie Turner or Iain Mackenzie)In addition, what was the first name of the “J Cotterell” who is listed in my assorted Exeter and Newton Abbot cards of the late 1980s, please? Might that be the same John Cotterell who co-wrote the A-Z of the Grand National with Marcus Armytage last year?
Cheers,
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I quite like the cards that also have editorial in as well – giving something to read in the quieter moments. There is one – Ayr if I remember correctly – which has a very good “welcome message” inside teh cover. Instead of the usual, often boring, “welcome to the course” and “thanks to our sponsors” stuff it can contain some controversial comment – most refreshing.
Cartmel cards are usually a joy as well – frequently a disarmingly honest summary of the course’s current trials, tribulations and successes (financial or otherwise) from Lord Cavendish, and sometimes some nice reproductions of card details from many years before (such as facsimiles of the first ever Bank Holiday racecard from 1969 on one occasion in 2007).
gc
Or a year earlier was this one:-
I’ve got a boxful of the things too going back dangerously close to 40 years (blimey o’effing reilly), but like most else I hoard for posterity, they just gather dust in a dark corner. Like to think that when decrepit and senile they will be pored over through eye-glass from the comfort of my bath chair. As such I actually prefer them being dog-eared, scribbled, stained and rain damaged than pristine – to rekindle the memories of all those good, good days: I was there and here’s the evidence.
). I’ve found all the runners and riders from the corresponding meetings in Chaseform annuals and the like, but if anyone possesses the cards for these, could they perhaps let me know who the duty commentators were on each occasion, please?
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