What is your favourite?

[Seagull]

There are many songs relating to horse racing.
This is my favourite
It is by The Band titled Cripple Creek.

the song contains these lines.

Good Luck had just stung me
So to the racetrack I did go

She bet on the 1 horse to win
and I bet on another to show

The odds were in my favour
I had ’em five to one

When that nag to win came around the track
Sure enough she had won

I took up all my winnings and gave mt Bessie half
And she tore it up and threw it in my face
just for a laugh.
(have a look on u tube type in cripple creek)

Van Morrison mentions Lester Piggot in one of his songs.
The waterboys have a few songs connected with horse racing.
There are even a few Chinese songs solely about horse racing.

What are your favourite ones?[/i]

[Himself]

"Arkle" by Dominic Behan.

Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning

[CiaranDoc]

Delaney’s Donkey (Val Doonigan)I think i’ve backed him a few times

[robnorth]

Spike Jones and The City Slickers version of the ‘William Tell Overture’.

‘It’s Cabbage by a head’, ‘Banana coming up through the bunch’, ‘and there goes the winner! Feitlebaum.

Feitlebaum the ultimate hold-up horse!

Rob

[Friggo]

"Kauto Star vs. Denman"

I smell an Ivor Novello award.

[non vintage]

With my almost MOR hat on, this is ‘Another Horsedreamer’s Blues’ by Counting Crows…

Margery’s dreaming of the middle of the day
Tiyuri to win, Perfect Dozen to place
Money is the matter that’s been on her mind
Time ticks by her one race at a time

She’s tryin’ to be a good girl
And give ’em what they want
But Margery’s dreaming of horses

Lookin’ at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
She’s tired and lonely
Scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next

She’s trying to be a good girl
And give ’em what they want
But Margery’s dreaming of horses

Margie doesn’t say anything all the way home
So afraid she’ll awake to find she’s all alone

Margery’s wingspan’s all feathers and coke cans, and
TV dinners and letters she won’t send, and
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for
Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
Boys who can’t tell one girl from another

So she takes her pills
Careful and round
One of these days
She’s gonna throw the whole bottle down

But she’s trying to be a good girl
And give ’em what they want
But Margery’s dreaming of…
Trying to be a good girl
And give ’em what they want
But Margery’s dreaming of horses[/color:1d82euyd]

[Bulwark]

"Kauto Star vs. Denman"

I smell an Ivor Novello award.

No doubt whilst we await the start of aintree that song is being played at full volume in an Iso-container at Guantanamo Bay.

[Maxilon 5]

Jim Lewis’ “Song for Best Mate”

“Best Mate…Best Mate…Best Mate…”
“Best Mate…Best Mate…Best Mate…”
“Best Mate…Best Mate…Best Mate…”
“Best Mate…Best Mate…Best Mate…”

*sigh*

A modern classic.

[aaronizneez]

Going into Anorak mode for a moment. I actually wrote a song when I was about 10 or 11 I think based on the "They’re Off!" game

The chorus if I remember was

Jimmy O’Goblin, Jimmy O’Goblin
Coming with a peach of a run
Jimmy O’Goblin, Jimmy O’Goblin
the danger horse is Page Son

I’ll get my coat

[robnorth]

aaronizneez

Sad thing is I remember the game as well. I never worked out how the commentator could see the grin on Ginger Campbell’s face when he was looking over his shoulder. I think Ginger rode Geordie Lad.

Rob

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