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The Film was called A Place to Go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QTZvtWP2jY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QTZvtWP2jY
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What Memories ..Such great days for the Game ..What a Great Track & Era .. Heartbreak.
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I'm glad someone enjoyed it.
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different era....no vids....full of punters.....plenty of books........now looking back I would want to be a bookmaker but in my early days which were the 80's I wanted to be a punter.....another massive tote board....imagine those scenes in colour......
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At Clapton we were the first track to get the videos in the late 60s.
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how were they watched sparrow.....super 8?.......didn't think videos were around until the late 70's
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You could only watch them at the track. They would show the previous meeting about half an hour before racing began.
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Probably wrong to describe them as videos but replays just the same.
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I bet there's a collection of those films somewhere.....in a garage or loft......if they survived....converted to digital would make a fascinating watch...
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I would love to see them again, so perhaps I should look out for them on ebay.
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was a few programmes for clapton on ebay the other day.
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The prices have increased quite a bit lately on ebay. They're bidding around £18 for an ordinary graded card at Clapton 1969!
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Didn't your bid win, casemoney?
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the replays were on a black and white portable tv.
happy days. i would stand outside and ask complete strangers to posed as my dad i then go and knock on the black door at the cheap ring. a man would open it and i would say that i am with my dad. i had a different dad every meeting |
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The betting ring at Clapton was really strong fortunes changed hands ..It was great when it was wet there, as there was a tremendous bias and the outside runners really dominated, when the Scurry was held at Clapton it was a real top class competition, all the classy dogs ran in it, and all the Clapton trainers knew the Time of day. A few of the older guys may remember Don't Gambol dominating the Scurry for a few years, a white & black dog trained at Wimbledon ran out of Tr 6 fast starting wide runner. Flying Machine.
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i was bought up in luton where we had a dog track with 10 tote boxes 2bob and one ten bob window, as well as 7 to8 bookies, you had kennels for your dogs and they had a vet like they have today, a lot of people like sid the fish and nick savver started their training live's, when i could get a lift to henlow they did'nt have a tote box just a fellow with the odds on a blackboard and only 4 bookie's, those days are gone and we look through rose tinted glasses and don't say how life was so hard.
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