Anyone remember their FIRST EVER bet?

Red Alligator '67 G N... I think ! ;)

Btw, Rummy buried by the winning post at Aintree!

Cartmel races. Bank Holiday monday. I was about 6. Just fell in love with the whole atmosphere.

went into town with my dad when about 13 he asked me to pick one out of a 4/5 horse race to go with his other 3 horses , my pick was katmandu which won at 33-1 .and thats cost me thousands ever since lol

£2 e.w. on Ibal @ 20/1 on the 10th March 2001. Horse duly obliged.

nicholas silver when it won the national think it was 18/1tanner each way ,them were the days hey

point ,




halcyon days mate... ;)

Not many on here have good memories if this is all that remember their first bet!!

Not many on here have good memories if this is all that remember their first bet!!

ela mana mou, eclipse i think, £3 at 10/3 get in there my son.

Ballinger Ridge was mine and really thought i would collect !!!

Crisp 5p e-w !

2 punts on my Da to win a fist fight, circa 68'

Time Charter with Steve Cauthen up,

got 100/30 instead of 7/4 cos I didn't know anything about taking a price,

got really worried cos the jockey on mine didn't seem to be moving at all compared to the other jocks,

but years later found that to be a good thing !

"Nimbus"..................1949 Derby.

infomaniac 15 Apr 09:43
Time Charter with Steve Cauthen up,
I think that was in the coronation stakes at epsom,time charter absolutely friendless in the betting then preceded to destroy sun princess,happy days!

Yes, years later I found out that there was a rumour about Henry Candy's stable having the virus and the horse drifted from 6/4f out to 7/2 etc,

but Time Charter was apparently stabled away and the rest is history :)

50p on seagram 1992 national, I was 10.

I told all my mates at work to bet Seagram all week leading up to the race,

but changed my mind and bet on Garrison Savanah myself on the day :(

20 PENCE EW STALBRIDGE COLONIST SANDOWN HOOKED EVER SINCE :^0

Mine was a horse called Puccini.

Needless to say the poxy beast won!

50p ew last suspect at 50-1 in the National.

a horse called floater ridden by i think terry biddlecome trained by walwyn i think

aanyone remember a chaser called floater ?

it won at 100/8 must be late 50s early 60s

l,escargot, thought he had a blue head, (it was a hood), kept me going in bullseyes for a while.

cant remember it, but i apparently backed corbiere at the tender age of 4 to win the national

Father put 50p on Alverton for the Grand National :(

First bet i placed myself was on Clive Brittain's Lapierre in the European Free handicap

Little Polvier won the national - I was on ;) my best ever guess :P

anyone remember the year?

farcry think it was 88 or 89, i did him and remember taking 40,s

1973 National .. The one where Rummy did Crisp on the run in .. I had a fiver on at 10 or 11/1 .. I thought mmm this is an easy way of making money .. Downhill ever since :-(

My first ( and probably only) double I ever had up was Boom Docker and Perambulate 14/1 and 17/2 ... 25p E/W double .. made about £35

Little Polvier was 89

sadly got killed at Aintree the year after I believe

yep thanks lads 1989 just watched it on you tube - great stuff :)

Early 60s, My Audrey,ridden by George Cadwaladr!

Cant rem the year 96-97

Had 8 quid e/w on 16/1 it won :-) At it since

Mine was £50 e.w Flockton Grey . . .Never got paid .

5d on Crisp. Been hitting the bar ever since.

Aldaniti, Bob Champion, The National

must be a system there, get a kid who's never had a bet to pick a horse it wins then move on and find another......watch out for the cops tho

DancingBraveTheBest 14 Apr 07:34


Mine was on Red Rum in a race where me and my twin brother both had a bet and my brother did Rubstick which won the race. We were both about 10 i think and we are now 37. I got hooked and my bro never even though he had a winner his first bet.




27 years ago it couldnt of been redrum could it ?1983 he surely was retired by then.

A 10p ew yankee that i went halves with a work colleague in 1983. Had 3 winners including a 14/1 shot ridden by Lester Piggot. We got back £52, haven't had a winner since...

i may have been older than 10 but it was defo red rum and my bro backed rubstick.

London Cry would be my first winning bet in the 1957 Cambridgeshire ridden by Scobie Breasley.
1/- each way at 20/1. My father always said low draw at Newmarket so as this was drawn 1 that was my selection. Simple game I thought age 10.

Miners lamp ridden by Lester Piggot and it won................... wonder how wealthy I'd be now if it didn't :|

Mine was on some Lester Piggott runner in the 80's, was only in the bookies because a mate was placing a football coupon bet and Piggott was the only jockey I'd heard of.

Won at 4/1 and I thought racing was the easiest way ever to make money, spent the next 20 years finding out it wasn't :)

So to sum it up, everybody's first bet won!

thought the thread was first ever bet not first ever winner..........cant remember mine but it almost certainly lost

Red Alligator, 6d ew, Grand National. It was 1968 Halcyon!

mr frisk in the national

that horse has a lot to answer for :)

6d e.w. on Mr What in 1958 National, won at 18/1. Yes, it did win, can't remember any losers before that, my dad put the bets on for big races. I definitely didn't back the 1959 winner!

i started the thread am my first winner never won. wakey wakey!!

1 in 40 great

i can't remember my first legal bet but remember picking mr frisk with the family all together having 1 each, (about 10 of us), i went nuts when it blitzed its way to victory.

think it was a course record too :0

whats great bout that. would be happpier if it was 0/40 and my first bet had won.

remember trying to find out who had won the 1970 derby while on a school trip to switerland.....asked the shopkeeper for a english newspaper kept giving me writing paper

have u found out yet cardiff?

didnt find out till i got back....................remember my first placepot which was a winning bet.......2 @£1 lingfield payed £72.............2 places in the last £144

Funny story about a mate of mine who came to stay at ours one weekend and had his 1st bet - he'd never bet in his life so I fired up BF and showed him the next race and how it worked. He picked one out by name right out the bottom at 60s I think so I put on £2 quid for him. He had to leave before the off and as he's driving off I watch the numbers tick over on here and it wins! Not finished there though. Rang him straight off to tell him how unbelievable it was but he didn't get it really. Persuaded him over the phone to pick a number between 1 and 20ish for the next. He randomly picks another massive outsider and you guessed it - romped home! True luck story - wish I'd put more than £2 on though!

50p on a horse called Ribellaro - won at 9/2.

Thought it was so-oo easy.... :)

Dad always used to put a £1 bet on for each of us on the national.

One year my horse didn't start so we put my £1 on an 8-leg acca in Coral. Won £350

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