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no horse,was my Dad that i have to thank or should i say blame!!
No horse in particular, just kinda started up.
Denman, was the one that got me absolutely hooked though
(relative newbie 
)
Denman, was the one that got me absolutely hooked though
(relative newbie )
My Dominion,£2e/w @7s,sorry for aftertiming.Think that Martin Pipe trained it and Terry Ramsden owned it,was along time ago though.
I remember My Dominion. Early on as a hurdler was dodgy at the start. Had a nice bet on at Warwick (novice hurdle) as soon he consented to race after the tapes went up. Happy days! Defo trained by Pipe, and if memory serves he owned the beast aswell.
The Beeches was as white as snow, owned by Paul Mellon & finished 4th in the '69 National.
The Beeches was as white as snow, owned by Paul Mellon & finished 4th in the '69 National.
First meeting i attended was at Wetherby in about 84 or 85,the boxing day meeting,vaguely remember a horse called Charlotte`s Web,on the way back to Blackpool stopped for dinner at a pub called The Broken House,wonder if that`s still there?
went along with my dad when young but really started to enjoy it after being at wincanton to see Rhinestone Cowboy absolutely sluice up. Duke Of Marmalade got me interested in the flat after being mainly a NH fan.
Rag Trade and Rummy in 76National
Then I was ill and off school went to my mums friends who told me to go sit with her dad who was watching racing. It was Cheltenham and there was Sea Pigeon Monksfield etc. I was hooked and never attended school or work during Cheltenham week. Sorry I know you only wanted 1 but I also loved these at that time.
Alverton
Night Nurse
Kybo
Jack Of Trumps
The Pilgarlic
Then I was ill and off school went to my mums friends who told me to go sit with her dad who was watching racing. It was Cheltenham and there was Sea Pigeon Monksfield etc. I was hooked and never attended school or work during Cheltenham week. Sorry I know you only wanted 1 but I also loved these at that time.
Alverton
Night Nurse
Kybo
Jack Of Trumps
The Pilgarlic
And mine will never forget the picture on the front of the Sunday paper.
not a horse.....my pap and a family of gamblers...i was 7
R carver - Hallo Dandy was my first ever National bet. I say bet, I was 8 at the time, so it was a case of all the family picking a horse out of the paper and my grandad putting a quid on each at the bookies. Unfortunately this was 1985 not 1984 and I don't think it got any further than the first!
Re the original question. Not a horse for me either. First time round it was my best friends dad when I was about 10/11. Whenever we would go round he was always watching the horses, watching the race on teletext or listening on the phone. Was the Cecil, Cauthen period and I remember following the likes of old vic and nashwan.
2nd time round was about 6 yrs a go with a mate at work who I now go to Cheltenham with. The likes of George Washington and Kauto star and rather more obscurely flashy wings helped get me completely hooked
2nd time round was about 6 yrs a go with a mate at work who I now go to Cheltenham with. The likes of George Washington and Kauto star and rather more obscurely flashy wings helped get me completely hooked
That's resnar - he did go at the fist. He was a magnificent looking horse.
Lady Cricket winning what is the Paddy Power in around 2000. Was just a casual racing up to then, was advised to get on at 14-1 antepost by my grandad and the beautiful mare didnt let me down. What an horse she was! Been hooked to the jumps ever since.
Feathard Lady sticks out as one for me that helped me get hooked, after winning the Christmas Hurdle doing cartwheels. Shame she didn't make the Champion Hurdle.
As a child, 6 (old) pence each way on ESB in 1956 GN. As a youth, Charlottown in the Derby of '66: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=44154
One Cool Cat, wanted to see what the hype was about, Moscow Flyer and Harchibald.
I always had an awareness of Beeforsalmon as well, Baracouda, Rhinestone Cowboy and Rule Supreme. My first proper bet was on a horse called Dollar Rock at Mallow in 04', I think my first bet on a good horse was on First Gold. I remember Florida Pearl's last Hennessey very well, also Frizzante winning a Gr1, think it was the July Cup.
I'm a relative newbie.
When I first got into racing it was the likes of Detroit City, Black Jack Ketchum, Well Chief, Ashley Brook, Katchit, Witcheta Lineman, Denman and Voy Por Ustedes doing most of the winning.
I took more and more of a liking to Well Chief, because I'd read up on how he was unlucky to run into Moscow Flyer and Azertiop all the time, plus his injury problems. Thought he was a good looking horse as well.
So it has to be him, but will always have a place for Exotic Dancer
for similar reasons - always running into Kauto in his prime.
I've said on another thread how gutted I was to here about Lennon dying. I won my first ever racecourse bet on him at Aintree in 2006 or 2007. He was evens fav in the last race and put £20 - don't think I've ever cheered a horse on so much since [:)]
When I first got into racing it was the likes of Detroit City, Black Jack Ketchum, Well Chief, Ashley Brook, Katchit, Witcheta Lineman, Denman and Voy Por Ustedes doing most of the winning.
I took more and more of a liking to Well Chief, because I'd read up on how he was unlucky to run into Moscow Flyer and Azertiop all the time, plus his injury problems. Thought he was a good looking horse as well.
So it has to be him, but will always have a place for Exotic Dancer
for similar reasons - always running into Kauto in his prime.I've said on another thread how gutted I was to here about Lennon dying.
I won my first ever racecourse bet on him at Aintree in 2006 or 2007. He was evens fav in the last race and put £20 - don't think I've ever cheered a horse on so much since [:)]
Fondmort - Id been to Worcester races a couple of times & enjoyed it, then a friend of mine took me Cheltenham on the day that Fondmort won the PPGC. I was hooked & have been ever since
Well Chief, Can't believe I forgot Detroit City. Loved this horse thought he was going to win the Champion Hurdle. I remember watching his last race in a bookies in Brum while waiting for my brother to play in some poker tourny at the casino, think Kauto touched off Exotic Dancer in the Betfair Chase on the same day. Looking at what happened to DC I feel something must have been up with him for a while because the horse that ran on the Champion Hurdle wasn't the Detroit City
Mr Frisk & Seagram, backed them both as a youngster, thought I had the National licked!!
Always liked a bet but the day that changed me from a casual bettor to a serious one would be when i went to the Festival for the first time in 2000.
Remember getting the Racing Post in the morning and instantly being drawn to one horse.... Monsignor.
Watching him bound clear up the hill in the first race at my first Festival without a doubt got me hooked and ive never missed a Festival since.
Happy day that was.
Remember getting the Racing Post in the morning and instantly being drawn to one horse.... Monsignor.
Watching him bound clear up the hill in the first race at my first Festival without a doubt got me hooked and ive never missed a Festival since.
Happy day that was.
Flyingbolt. Grainy pictures of him winning the Irish National - Michael O'Hehir calling him home. Never beaten over fences til Brucellosis struck him down, and,according to the Irish Bloodstock review of (I think)1966, "achieved more by the age of seven than Arkle had". No-one will ever know if he might have felled the mighty Arkle, but the lock of his mane I still have reminds me how he ignited a lifelong passion for jumping. And then there was The Dikler...........
Tipped Little Polveir for the NAtional in 1989 to my mates at school but didn't have a penny on it.
Next year (left school, on the dole) backed Mr Frisk!
So a combination of those two I guess.
Next year (left school, on the dole) backed Mr Frisk!
So a combination of those two I guess.
baNjackst - you should try and buy the Jonathan Powell story of Monkesfield - a terrific read. Thank god the new whip rules were not in place when he deadheated with Nightnurse in the old Templegate.
Star of a Gunner when it won the Lincoln on atrocoius ground in the late '80s but of course before that it was Red Rum and all the Grand National horses (The Pilgarlic, Earthstopper etc) and the Duke of Albuquerque from the '70s.
Started going racing in ernest with my ex in the late 90's, mostly to Uttoxeter and Haydock where Lord Gyllene and General Wolfe were standing dishes.
Happy days.
Started going racing in ernest with my ex in the late 90's, mostly to Uttoxeter and Haydock where Lord Gyllene and General Wolfe were standing dishes.
Happy days.
my first punt was a treble at the festival. my older brother told me to stick a fiver on as it was my 15th birthday a week before.
treble was baracouda, moscow flyer, best mate.
how could you not love racing after that
treble was baracouda, moscow flyer, best mate.
how could you not love racing after that
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