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Did anyone here see
Ballyregan Bob 31.07 hackney 523 m track record run live It much have been majestic to see a dog run that testing 4 bend trip Other top class 4 bends dog struggled to go round under 31.50 Surely some of you old timers must have seen it |
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Ravage.................video of Ballyregan Bob the best stayer of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1FOYFtK7I |
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loved the old hackney
only went about 20 times in total hated the new hackney did my b0ll0cks a few times but seems funny now |
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went with a mate to the new hackney once / was doing my conkers
he managed to drag me out of stadium to carpark , but I still had a carpet on me and ended up going back in needless to say 1 more bet later id lost that too but seems funny now / wasn't at the time lol |
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top class dog there was summer story must have been 40 years ago old hackney
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my friend brought a greyhound at hackney sales think it must have been 50 years ago 28 guineas took it to hendon greyhounds was nearly top class trained by henry coalbrooke
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I was there one windy afternoon when someone threw what looked like a Parka coat at the dogs as they came into the home straight, the wind caught the coat and it missed them. The red light came on immediately after the race finished but after a while the green light was shown and the result stood. The bloke who threw the coat jumped over a wall and got away.
There was a spate of race interference going on at different tracks at that time. |
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Does it have the 31.07 run of is it the old VV one?
I have watched the later a few times |
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My Saturdays used to consist of Hackney in the morning, Palace if they were home in the afternoon and Catford in the evening. Happy days indeed
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Saturday morning at Hackney on the No30 bus from St Pancras with 11.00 start,the place was a veritable sun trap always great weather.
Books were Eddy Selby next to the phone,Hutchinson,Doug Tyler ,and don't remember the others. Henry Colebrook,Annets,Lionel Maxen were main trainers. Scunthorpe,Sloop John B,Buxom Joe are a few dogs I remember. Then off to Harringay for the 2.08 start,then across to White City for 7.30,and finally home to Bedford. Good day,good times. |
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On Saturday's I also did Hackney and Harringay but of course Clapton at night. Hectic times.
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I remember we used to be 7 or 8 evry year for the derby. Hackney saturday morning always my highlight. Was the first time the phrase was ever used john power ( nookie bear ) as we used to call him as he bore great resemblance to roger de coursey jumped of the stool drew a chalk line in front of his pitch n said if any of u edinburgh mafia cross this line u av to bet me. The name stuck.
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it was nice to see dennis tuttlebee again in the film...…..i remember standing where the crowd were standing......pepper running around scribbling on race cards.....the rush to have a bet with the crowds when a dog lengthened in price....hundreds of black taxis in the car parks.....especially tuesday and thursday afternoons.....i would still be going if it was there...….
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I used to like Tuttlebee . Always had a chat with him at Crayford when I had dogs there . Had a lot of time for Pepper . A proper character and was always at Rye House until its closure...
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Had to be 1 o the biggest characters in the game pepper.
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i remember asking dennis for a 1000/160 a dog at Crayford and he got a bit confused and instead of lowering the winnings he lowered the stake and said you can have 1000/140......having the privilege with all the bookmakers of calling the bet and settling after.....i was off before he must have realised his mistake......the dog was beat and i tried to pay 160 but being a gentleman he only took the 140.....liked him and doris….both gone now....so is pepper...
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pepper was a diamond he look after a lot of dogs when there racing was over
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all brindles.....
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i went to greyhound tracks all around london but it was one particular race that got me really hooked on gambling and it was at hackney wick my uncle worked at the times newspaper and told me a dog would win on this sat morning so my uncle who lived in essex at the time picked me up and over we went the dog was trained buy newman i had 600 pound on it which was my savings and it won i thought this was easy
 but little did i know i can't remember the dogs name but the owner was one gary noble |
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I would have thought you could remember the dogs name doc. I can recall dogs names that did me a turn from the early 60s so how sad am I?
One I recall from Hackney was given to me by a kennel hand who had no interest at all in the game but was a mate of mine and knew they had got dog the ready it was called Betjohns Jumbo and won at 5/2 in 1965 approx. |
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i kept the dog card for years been looking but can't find it
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Having the full English breakfast on Saturday mornings and if Pearl didn't drop a bit of cigarette ash on your fried egg you felt as if you've had a result
What a great track that was. |
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Backing special addition To win the William Hill Lead 33s in two 12s
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I used to do a bit of business in the photo finishes for a little while. Someone in the booth would perhaps suggest to me what had won a little while before the announcement was made over the tannoy. Managed to get a £400/600 in the photo one Saturday Morning, when I only had a score on me. Didn't back too many losers with that little system.
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Once saw someone throw a Welsh Dresser on at the 3rd bend of a 523 graded which landed on the hare rail and disintegrated giving out a huge banging noise.
Seems not to affect the race and the perpetrator scurried off through a gap in the fence. The green light was eventually put up and there were some happy bookies that afternoon. Gamble not landed and race not void. Great days they were. |
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WHAT DAYS THEY WERE, PEPPER ONE ARM LOU DENNY THE CHINAMAN MORE STROKES PULLED THERE THAN THEIR WAS EVER AT THE BOAT RACE,LOVED THE PLACE
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"i went to greyhound tracks all around london but it was one particular race that got me really hooked on gambling and it was at hackney wick my uncle worked at the times newspaper and told me a dog would win on this sat morning so my uncle who lived in essex at the time picked me up and over we went the dog was trained buy newman i had 600 pound on it which was my savings and it won i thought this was easy Laughbut little did i know i can't remember the dogs name but the owner was one gary noble"
.....your uncle was Don Crane....he was a proof reader I was a copy reader and worked with him at The Times newspaper. I didnt work regularly with him and didnt realise he was such a punter. That could have been one of 2 dogs.....either Simple Simon or Mickees Slave. I would have been about 23 at the time. I used to arrange my shifts around the Hackney meetings and if I couldnt swap shifts I used to go sick...........those were the days!!! |
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it was simple simon
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when the the big dispute started on the papers he got a nice living punting around the cheapside at the stow
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Did anyone here see
Ballyregan Bob 31.07 hackney 523 m track record run live It much have been majestic to see a dog run that testing 4 bend trip Other top class 4 bends dog struggled to go round under 31.50 Surely some of you old timers must have seen it I was there, it was unreal, think on the same day a grader won a 484 race in 31.20......Bobs run run blew my mind....the strapping brindle striding majestically round that track a briliiant memory. |
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yes it was a sat morning i remember he was worried because it had been raining all morning
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not many tracks you see 100t1 winners but i did at the wick
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Must have been Mossy Moore
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yes in a open heats if i remember right
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Must just tell this story.
One sat morn I went there with £300 and fancied the card rotten. After race 6 having lost my last £40 nobody in my crowd had any money left to borrow from. But we had been playing pool in Cherrys and I realised I had £8 in my back pocket from my last double or nothing game against a bloke called Del Boy. Fancied a dog called Ice Bowl in race 7 it was 6/1, had £50 to £8...it won. In the last Tadghs Girl was 10/1 first time back from season had 10 fifties and she won as well. £500 from nothing. Went to pub, then a cab to Spurs to watch them draw 0-0 with Coventry. Will never forget that day |
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the best thing about going a dogs when young was getting the coach to the wick or the coach to harringay and listening to all the old boys talking about the dogs when i went harringay i used to sit with 3 blokes all in their 70s up on the top of the stand the stories they used to tell about going to the dogs after the war were fantastic shame was no one around who could have taped them how i missed them days
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Mossy Moore (150/1), trained by Maggie Lucas I think, beat Curyhills Gara (4/9) a short head in a heat of The Guinneas.
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i saw the vid of that race on youtube the other day
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it is still on youtube just type in dogs name hackney wick dogs
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