New Posts For Thread: This day in 1955https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955It was my 21st. I went home for the celebration. My mother put all the presents I had already opened on the table for the guests to see. Put the money you were given with it she said. I said, It will be back tomorrow! I had put it on Meld in the StThe Birthday Persona Profile is me to a T.Peter Sellers shared our birthday.... he was not one of us.We went to look at a flat on my Birthday in 2006 and it was also the sellers birthday.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535394679#535394679The Birthday Persona Profile is me to a T.Peter Sellers shared our birthday.... he was not one of us.We went to look at a flat on my Birthday in 2006 and it was also the sellers birthday.Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:35:41 -0500Levmoss beat Park Top in the Oxfordshire in 68'https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535393875#535393875Levmoss beat Park Top in the Oxfordshire in 68'Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:54:28 -0500The Oxfordshire Stakes was (is) run at Newbury. It was renamed the Geoffrey Freer in 1969, in honour of the man who died the previous year. I thought I remembered Park Top winning it, but she's not on the list of winners, so maybe she was beaten in ihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535393781#535393781The Oxfordshire Stakes was (is) run at Newbury. It was renamed the Geoffrey Freer in 1969, in honour of the man who died the previous year. I thought I remembered Park Top winning it, but she's not on the list of winners, so maybe she was beaten in iTue, 10 Sep 2013 13:49:31 -0500It was my birthday on Sunday as well. Yeahyeahwhatever posted this for me, it is worryingly accurate about who I am in real life! | report block user yeahyeahwhatever yeahyeahwhatever 09 Sep 13 03:45 Happy Birthday SB - sounds like youhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535393365#535393365It was my birthday on Sunday as well. Yeahyeahwhatever posted this for me, it is worryingly accurate about who I am in real life! | report block user yeahyeahwhatever yeahyeahwhatever 09 Sep 13 03:45 Happy Birthday SB - sounds like youTue, 10 Sep 2013 13:33:25 -0500I don't remember the Oxfordshire Stakes. Where was that held?https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535393273#535393273I don't remember the Oxfordshire Stakes. Where was that held?Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:27:27 -0500ebulgery - here's the report from the Glasgow Herald of Tuesday May 10, 1966, the day after the Brighton Derby Trial:-SODIUM WINS DERBY TRIAL AT BRIGHTONCharlottown Withdrawn.A drab cloak of gloom wrapped itself around the Brighton Racecourse enclosuhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535393039#535393039ebulgery - here's the report from the Glasgow Herald of Tuesday May 10, 1966, the day after the Brighton Derby Trial:-SODIUM WINS DERBY TRIAL AT BRIGHTONCharlottown Withdrawn.A drab cloak of gloom wrapped itself around the Brighton Racecourse enclosuTue, 10 Sep 2013 13:09:47 -0500Below meant for Oldgit1, cc Ebulgeryhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535389745#535389745Below meant for Oldgit1, cc EbulgeryTue, 10 Sep 2013 09:55:59 -0500Ebulgery - Re Charlottown, You may be thinking of the Lingfield Derby Trial, as he did run in that. Got turned over by a 25/1 shot call Black Prince II (or III). Brian Taylor rode the winner I think and it went on to be third in the Derby behind Chhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535389723#535389723Ebulgery - Re Charlottown, You may be thinking of the Lingfield Derby Trial, as he did run in that. Got turned over by a 25/1 shot call Black Prince II (or III). Brian Taylor rode the winner I think and it went on to be third in the Derby behind ChTue, 10 Sep 2013 09:54:46 -0500Collywobble:Hethersett was one of several horses involved in a pile up in the Derby won by Larkspur.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535379069#535379069Collywobble:Hethersett was one of several horses involved in a pile up in the Derby won by Larkspur.Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:21:01 -0500Did Charlottown run in the Brighton Derby Trial? no oldgit1...he was due to run against Sodium...but pulled outI went there to watch him I remember He later beat Sodium in the Derby and Oxfordshire Stakes but was beaten by him in the Irish Derby andhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/30078883/this-day-in-1955?post_id=535378873#535378873Did Charlottown run in the Brighton Derby Trial? no oldgit1...he was due to run against Sodium...but pulled outI went there to watch him I remember He later beat Sodium in the Derby and Oxfordshire Stakes but was beaten by him in the Irish Derby andMon, 09 Sep 2013 16:12:40 -0500