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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. |
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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...
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i may have been older than 10 but it was defo red rum and my bro backed rubstick.
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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. |
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Miners lamp ridden by Lester Piggot and it won................... wonder how wealthy I'd be now if it didn't :|
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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 :) |
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So to sum it up, everybody's first bet won!
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thought the thread was first ever bet not first ever winner..........cant remember mine but it almost certainly lost
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Red Alligator, 6d ew, Grand National. It was 1968 Halcyon!
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mr frisk in the national
that horse has a lot to answer for :) |
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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!
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i started the thread am my first winner never won. wakey wakey!!
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1 in 40 great
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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 |
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whats great bout that. would be happpier if it was 0/40 and my first bet had won.
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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
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have u found out yet cardiff?
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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
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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!
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50p on a horse called Ribellaro - won at 9/2.
Thought it was so-oo easy.... :) |
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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 :D |