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Family Business seconded. Wasn’t this when McCoy went back to the paddock before resuming the race?
There was a three horse race at Newton Abbot a few years ago when one of them fell quite early in the race, remounted and still won, despite his main opponent staying on his feet throughout the race.
One televised race has stuck in my memory for about 30 years. The leader fell when well clear two or three out. The horse that was left a clear leader fell a fence later, allowing the one that should have been third to win. It might have been called Red Ruler.
For bizarre races from the past, see Andrew Ward’s 1990 book "Horse Racing’s Strangest Races." PS – I am not Andrew Ward or his publisher.Grasshopper, there is a vast amount of free seating under cover at Auteuil – the stands are huge – and I would be very surprised if there weren’t plenty available even on a big race day.
My tip is to buy a one-day 3-zone travel pass for the metro at St Pancras. It gives you the flexibility to vary your itinerary if you want to. It does only take you to Michel Ange Auteuil, the stop before the Porte, but it’s only 200 yards away and in my case it reduced the need for me to try to speak French in Paris! You could get that ticket at Waterloo once you had gone through security and presumably there will be an equivalent at St P.
Desert Orchid’s Gold Cup. Sustained excitement through the day wondering if the race would take place and whether he would run, let alone the race itself.
But even better would be to see a race – any race – in the future, provided I could come back to the present and put a bet on.
I always admired how the best board men were adept at using various marker pens for different purposes, eg to write the favourite’s odds in a different colour, and to remember it all when shows and results were coming thick and fast.
Is it possible that our personal choices of racing golden ages correspond with periods that were special for us as individuals anyway? I regard the late 70s hurdlers and the Dickinson chasers as the tops, but that may be because that was when I was able to spend most time following racing and keeping up with the form.
Since then work has got increasingly in the way and form study has gone out the window. How I wish it was the opposite.
Many years ago I worked in a few betting shops and it soon became apparent that with quite a few punters you would pay them out at one window and before two minutes had passed take their cash back for their next bet. Working on that side of the counter revealed how few people won anything other than small amounts.
Remember the "board men" they had in those days – presumably all long gone now?
Thanks for the welcome, seabird, I wish I could say my Bolero was a 10. Nice to be here after watching for a long time.
