anyone got any boring jockeys chance meeting stories?

My mate asked Norman Williamson to sign a racecard at Fairyhpuse.

Norman said, 'What should I put?'

My mate said, 'Norman Williamson.'

My mate lacks imagination.

McCoy stopped to let me out of Towcs car park a few years ago.

i asked dunwoody for a winner.he gave me a horse called blues music it won at 7/4 . i went to 1 wedding in the last 8 years . guess which day the wedding was on

tuesday ?

no clouded saturday the same day blues music won and i missed it

I was at Newmarket many years ago and was walking out of the gates when I noticed Pat Eddery and another couple of jockeys going towards their waiting car.

how about saturday

damn too slow

My missus asked me if Dettori would mind having her photo taken with her at the July Course one Friday night. He said no problem and I took the photo and he walked away just before I could ask him if he had a chance in the next. That's it really, not that exciting but the missus was happy anyway.

I was at a water park at in Dubai and saw Frankie Dettori with his daughter (I think) and Ted Durcan. Waiting in a queue nodded to them and they nodded back :^0

mandeville i certainly wouldnt take ted durkin to the water park with me . hayley or emma more like

i said hello to gary hind at velka chuchle racecourse in prague.

I let timmy murphy goose my missus.

Knocked about with Ste Maloney upto he moved to mel brittains yard , seen him at haydock a few years on and he gave about 6 of us a horse later on in the afternoon Cumbrian watlz ( i think defo cumbrian something ) 16 to 1 and rinsed in , crossing the line he stood up and shouted Johnny wellies ...........................................................a loony bloke from when we grew up ................................top grade

met Hen Knight and a jolly Terry B at aintree after one of Mateys gold cups, took a pic for a couple of ladys day lasses with the 2 in question and terry had his hands full....

Was in a lift at the Gosforth park hotel in Newcastle many years ago after an evening meeting , Pat Eddery got in and my mate asked him if he had anything for tomorrow , his reply was ` i`m at Newmarket in the afternoon and Lingfield in the evening , i`ll win the first at HQ for Mr Cecil ` the horse hosed up @7/4

I was fishing one day and got caught short nipped for a pooh out back in the bushes and forgot I was on the Aintree private members fishing lake (as you do).. nipped over to bechers brook dropped me trolleys let the turtles head drop out only to be clipped on the head by Mon Mome. didn't really think much about it until I bumped into Money Tree..... seething he was.. not a real jockey tale but always remember to go for a plop before going out all day.

In a niteclub with mate one night. In strolls Jim Culloty few weeks b4 Best Mate's first Gold Cup against Beef Or Salmon.

My mate: "Well JImbo, what are ya havin? Beef.....or.....Salmon?
JIm :"Neither, I'm having Best Mate".

Best Mate hammered him........

Met frankie with an american jockey in a corner shop in mayfair,a day after his ride on Swain.
I gave him a cheeky shake of the head,for him to say;don't go there,dipped his hand into his pocket,
and gave me few quarters,saying ;I'll give you this but don't put them on my mounts at linger tomz.

He got beat on 2 fav ,one of them at very long odds on in 4 runners race.
A hint or what??

Same mate told me he met Mick KInane in a niteclub 1 nite. Strolls up to him:

My mate: "Well Mick, are you having a good night?"
KInane: "How can I have a good night, and you won't leave me alone?" :^0

macca007 03 May 22:07


Knocked about with Ste Maloney upto he moved to mel brittains yard , seen him at haydock a few years on and he gave about 6 of us a horse later on in the afternoon Cumbrian watlz ( i think defo cumbrian something ) 16 to 1 and rinsed in , crossing the line he stood up and shouted Johnny wellies ...........................................................a loony bloke from when we grew up ................................top grade




good story that one

my mate owns a bookies , p. buchanan opened his shop met him once at perth race course , his missus if fit!!

Roger De Bris 03 May 23:38

In a niteclub with mate one night. In strolls Jim Culloty few weeks b4 Best Mate's first Gold Cup against Beef Or Salmon.

My mate: "Well JImbo, what are ya havin? Beef.....or.....Salmon?
JIm :"Neither, I'm having Best Mate".

Best Mate hammered him........

Beef or Salmon didnt run in Best Mates first Gold Cup

yaboya, have you the seen the thread on chitchat about the GT Major quiz - we have to play each other, can you nominate a time excluding sunday? cheers :)

wake up yaboya, it reads in Best Mates first Gold Cup AGAINST Beef or Salmon. It doesnt read in Best Mates first Gold Cup.........

Was at the 10f. start at Brighton one raceday, Frankie arrives on one early, so as it walked round we passed some time chatting. Also there was a group of p***y caravans camped nearby with a few of the fellas shouting comments...
Frankie naively asked me if I knew them.....I said "No way, and don't mention that you have some lead in the weight cloth, otherwise you'll weigh in light".......he still didn't twig.

He used to shout out as he slipped the lead rein to go down to the start "Back Pat Eddery" or whoever was riding a short priced one....they never won as far as I can remember.

Another jockey who used to shout a tip (usually misleading) when he left the weighing room, or entered the parade ring, was Ray Cochrane. Most lost.........shame it was before the betting exchanges came into being.

Walking out of Gowran one day and was havin a chat with Norman Williamson.......two horses had just flashed past the post together in the concluding bumper and one of the jocks shouted over asking Norman what was up. Norman told him he was up a head :^0 He lost.

Also know a few of the stalls handlers at Gowran who said Mick Kinane was very good to them with his tips. They always had the mobiles at the ready.

help John Lowe out carrying his sadddle at esher train station,chatted to him on train and he told me to back fielpe torro(my mind is going a bit thinks thats about right pretty sure it was a Easterby horse) in the portland,in the end a flag start but he got it home at around 10s,must have been in the mid 80s i suppose.
But he really did seem like a nice genuine lad

It's so boring i can hardly be bothered to say it but i met John Eagan at an airport carrying his saddle where we had quiet a chat.

^ lol bit like mine

in keeping with regurgatating old threads for no apparent reason

You're supposed to think of a funny little quip to tag on.

can you not do it for me?

You'll learn.

got introduced briefly to muckhoy. he said are you enjoying the racing. I said yes, i am. He turned to the other person and said "well, he's easily pleased isn't he?" And walked off.

did a stretch in bristol nick with charlie deutsch. not a bad kid for a german.

Have played golf with Fallon a few times actually won the Oxfordshire pro am with him,he saw me at Newbury by the paddock and whispered he would win the next for Cumani ran well but finished third, jockeys make lousy tipsters

I was walking across the track from the inside car park at Killarney following who I thought were a bunch of young lads, one of the lads started digging his heel into the turf and I called to him what's the ground like? he turned around and laughed and it was Jamie Spencer.

i made a short film with Hawney Lil but it never made the light of day as far as i know.

Myself and Madame C were at Longchamp some years ago and were getting a taxi from the course into the city centre. A guy came along and asked would we mind if he came with us. It turned out to be Fergus Sweeney.

Did Fergus have an aversion to the cab driver overtaking anyone?

mate was in a pub good few years back and got chatting with a guy at the bar ,after a few pints the guy said to him do you not no my face from anywhere ,mate never bets so do not have a clue he was chatting to peter scudamore so when he finds out hes been chatting to a jockey he asks him has he got any tips ,scud gave him a horse for the next day trained by his brother in law or such .so later that night phones his dad up to tell him who he had met and the first thing his dad says was why didnt you get a tip off him you dickhead ,mates says i did that why i am calling you ffs ,horse won at 4/1 so his dad was a happy chappie

stood in away end at Abbey Stadium -lived down there at time - wiv Walter Swinburn and Michael Tebbutt happy days watching Micky Quinn destroy the high flying Cambridge Utd wiv Dion and Claridge leading line for them lot