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you meet a racing fan who doesn’t know who Lester Piggott is! <!– s:cry: –>
<!– s:cry: –> <!– s:cry: –><!– s:cry: –>you meet a racing fan who doesn’t know who Lester Piggott is!
Id say he/she wasnt a racing fan no matter what age he/she was.
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…. you can remember the racing career of every twelve-year-old chaser’s dam sire.
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…. you can remember the racing career of every twelve-year-old chaser’s dam sire.
That’s something to be proud of, I want to reach that point one day. Amazing feeling I bet.
You know you’re getting old when …
You’ve lived long enough to have been present for flat racing at Alexandra Palace and Liverpool, or for jump racing at Nottingham, Windsor, Wolverhampton and Wye.
AP
Btw, going back to L Piggott – is he the only man ever to have ridden, trained, owned and bred winners at Royal Ascot?
We all know about the winning rides, probably not many will recall that he trained a winner of the Coventry Stakes (Cutting Blade, 1986), and then more recently he bred the Norfolk Stakes winner Superstar Leo and I’m fairly sure he was part of the syndicate that owned the horse as well.
AP
(How’s that for getting old!)
Remember Cutting Blade well – slightly miffed that Cash Asmussen did the steering rather than Bryn Crossley, if I recall.
You know you’re getting old when …
You’ve lived long enough to have been present for flat racing at Alexandra Palace and Liverpool, or for jump racing at Nottingham, Windsor, Wolverhampton and Wye.
AP
Did you never visit Stockton Racecourse, AP?
Thats me then seepigeon.
I used to go and see him in the flesh at Malton on a regular basis. The Easterbys were ever so helpful and accommodating – a real credit to the profession.
Can still remember how sore my throat was from shouting as he rallied and almost got back up against Little Owl in the Gold Cup. If he had managed it he would have been the first to do the Gold Cup / Champion Hurdle double. God bless him.…. you can remember the racing career of every twelve-year-old chaser’s dam sire.
Completely different argument………..When i was young and was well into football i devoured as much knowledge as i could about the sport i loved. When someone says they are a racing fan and dont even know who the long fellow is there is something wrong!!!
You know you’re getting old when…
…you meet a racing fan who looks back at you with utter incomprehension when you mention
The ITV Seven
to them.
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Btw, going back to L Piggott – is he the only man ever to have ridden, trained, owned and bred winners at Royal Ascot?
We all know about the winning rides, probably not many will recall that he trained a winner of the Coventry Stakes (Cutting Blade, 1986), and then more recently he bred the Norfolk Stakes winner Superstar Leo and I’m fairly sure he was part of the syndicate that owned the horse as well.
AP
(How’s that for getting old!)
Mont Etoile who won the Ribblesdale in 2006 was the horse he had a share in.
When…
You remember betting shops only had a tannoy, you could only listen to the races, no pictures. Funny thing is we used to all look up at the tannoy while the race was on, as if we could see the action.
I was very,very young then, mind.
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