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With you Marble regarding Minnehoma. Had a cheeky £1 e.w on at 16/1 at the age of 7.
Never won the race again until Silver Birch romped home two years ago!
Horses like Minnehoma, Young Hustler and Viking Flagship were the ones that got me hooked on JUMPS racing.
Childhood interest in racing was minimal, save for watching the usual culprits of National and Derby, and being aware of the exploits of Arkle and that strange man Lester Piggott.
The love affair really began during an August family holiday in Torbay in the early ’70s with a trip to Newton Abbot races. It’s a cliche, but the sights, sounds and smells of the racecourse had me smitten and although moderated by encroaching miserable old gittism, they still do. Interest in betting followed somewhat later.
Have you been racing much Young Fella?
Welcome, and enjoy the journey
Boxing Day 1997. I was 15 when See More Business won his first King George and backed him at 10/1.
Don’t take this the wrong way David but I thought you were at least in your 40’s!!! Your younger than me… Strange things usernames and forums…
Have you been racing much Young Fella?
‘Fraid not. We used to live very near to Market Rasen, so I went there now and again in the summer. I got very attached to Ei Ei as it seemed like he ran there every meeting and was such a tough cookie.
Nowadays, I make it to Newton Abbot and Taunton when I can. If I’m slumming it then there’s Bath Music Festival/racecourse too.
Watching the ITV seven at my grandparents in the early seventies started me off. I remember my uncle shouting at the television having bet Crisp in the 73 national. I had a soft spot for a horse called Clever Scot around that time but I can’t for the life of me remember why. When playing Escalado one of them always had to be Clever Scot.
Boxing Day 1997. I was 15 when See More Business won his first King George and backed him at 10/1.
Don’t take this the wrong way David but I thought you were at least in your 40’s!!! Your younger than me… Strange things usernames and forums…
Me too!
I think it’s because everybody who joined the forum has thought at some stage or other that "our" David Johnson was the champion owner and it’s difficult to get away from that.
And of course DJ is wise beyond his years!
Watching racing on the black and white TV with my Grandad on a Saturday afternoon – it was Peter O’Sullivan calling on the BBC and, I seeeem to recall, Tony Cook on ITV.
The first race I can remember was Nicholas Silver winning the Grand National.
Although it was the Saturday afternoons I used to watch it was the big races I seem to remember, especially the Grand National – I think I have seen every on, either on TV or live since it was first televised.
Until I was about six we lived in Chessington – on one of the main routes to Epsom – although I never really appreciated it at the time we used to stand in the front garden watching the crowds heading to the Derby.
Boxing Day 1997. I was 15 when See More Business won his first King George and backed him at 10/1.
Don’t take this the wrong way David but I thought you were at least in your 40’s!!! Your younger than me… Strange things usernames and forums…
Me too!
I think it’s because everybody who joined the forum has thought at some stage or other that "our" David Johnson was the champion owner and it’s difficult to get away from that.
And of course DJ is wise beyond his years!
None taken, particularly when davidbrady sums it up as well as he has
Good thread Young Fella
Pendil was the horse that really set my racing heart alight. Night Nurse, Sea Pigeon et al. Glory days indeed!
Betting wise it was the Saturday ITV7 that got me betting each weekend.
My dad was horse racing mad. He used to take me racing as a kid. Guess it paid for my student years.
I have this strange very early memory of a horse called "Homefield" (or something close to that name) winning at Ayr in the 70s. Was there with my dad who backed it because I picked it. Whatever it bolted about 20 lengths clear in the first few furlongs and was never caught. really impressed me.
Now you’re talking.. Homefield was trained by Peter Poston and took off from the front and when on song took a bit of catching round Ayr, Hamilton and Lanark. Others from the Sea Pigeon/Night Nurse era were Birds Nest, Dramatist and Ubedizzy ,trained by Steve Nesbitt, who it seemed defied a ten pound penalty every Saturday on TV. My first ever winner was Jimmy the Singer in the Stewards Cup at Goodwood and only ever backed one since. And finally a special mention for Roman Warrior, a collosus of a racehorse, trained just across the road from Ayr racecourse, who humped a huge weight when winning the Ayr Gold Cup.
I was gutted when I realised nobody thought I was the King of Men from Lord of the Rings…
I was going to come up with a quip about the pen being mightier than the sword here but whilst typing I realised I was typing….
My first post on here, and the first horse I remember backing was called
Sheer Jest. My Dad had got a tip for it and I had £5 @ 8/1.It won….. and I was hooked.
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1959 Grand National [winner = Oxo, M. Scudamore up], on radio.
My first conscious memory of anything.
I was sitting on my grandmother’s lap. She’d backed Surprize Packet (100-1), which fell at Bechers’ 2nd time round when still well in contention. She shrieked, I wet myself, and thus gave her the only Surprize Packet that came up for her that day.
Happy Memories…. there’s a fabulous newsreel of the race here:
http://www.truveo.com/1959-GRAN-NATIONA … 3944699530
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