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Top ten trainers who know/knew how to land an old fashioned gamble
Top ten trainers who know/knew how to land an old fashioned gamble
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Don Cantillon
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Barrington Hills shocking omission.
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The New kid on the block has been forgotten...Tim Vaughan
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Jack and Lynda Ramsden.
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I'd have 'The Don' in the Top 10, imo
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The thread might be easier if headlined
"Top ten trainers who have never tried or wouldn't know how to land an old fashioned gamble" imo.. |
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Evan Williams
Delyth Thomas-Am I blue It shows how endemic corruption is throughout the sport |
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good point scooper,
looks like they're all at it  |
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agree with scooper, I have just been looking through Anne Duffields runners, surprising how many were well supported when they go in...
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Gambling Trainers anyone remember Captain Ryan Price Findon ... and that super horse Hill House what a story that was .
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Chris Grant
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zipper...i remember my old fella telling me a story about ryan price...had a winner in a big race, gambled of the boards, when being led into the winners enclosure, was roundly booed!!
cant think for the life of me, the name of horse or race, but im sure he said it was a biggie |
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Michael O hare
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Toby Balding,
I belief no-one has mentioned this great trainer yet ! |
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REG AKEHURST-END OF THREAD.
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Cant think of to many Gambles Toby landed,sorry.
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Jack Berry
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marco botti
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Mark Wallace,Jockey change-Kieran Fallon
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The greatest of them all, Vincent O'Brien
Founded his empire on spectacular gambles as did Jim Bolger to a lesser extent. |
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Scooper82 that was Hill House the J/C ordered a dope test on the horse nowt found. They asked Price not to run the horse in The Schweppes re the public out cry
The Captain told the Jockey Club not only am I going to run Hill House it will win Guess what it won. |
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Don=Only mentioned twice previously
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zipper...that must be the one...I remember him saying about dope testing aswell so it must have been that, unless he had done it a few other times !!!
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anyone remember who trained Ra Nova ?!
and Stan Moore used to ride and train a few too ! |
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Scooper82 in them days trainers could get away with murder
No camera patrol no recording, basically no nothing & all of the stewards were ex army types. |
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B Swift liked to have a few lbs in hand when having a bet.
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Scooper82 one last one from me In them days they did not have photo finish and they was some very funny results just rest on which horse the stawards had back if it was close .. a true story no names no pack drill a 3 mile chase this horse was backed off the boards .. there off the runners went into the fog nobody could anything the jock of the gamble pulled up hide behind the trees when the others came round on the final circuit he joined in and won the race you could not make it up but sure some old wag could put names up ..
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Francombe just tex me and sayed it was him
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zipper
 ....i can only begin to imagine what they got up to in the50s,60s, and 70s b4 tv coverage was properly done |
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Timeless dont think so he was not even born . but he (John Francombe) had the Balls to do a think like that
On The Francombe thing He was the Best and i Mean The Best jock i have seen in the last 30 years ok Mc Coy is good but John was fearless .. give any nag a ride |
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Eric Cousins
Peter Robinson Jack Holt J Fitzgerald and a lady called Postlethwaite David "Indian Ridge" Elsworth |
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Druids Lodge is a great shout , Sir Mark and Pasternak's Cambridgeshire still linger in the memory , nearly won it with the wrong one in Rudimentary , the late Graham Rock was not amused.
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Ken Payne
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Barry Stevens
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Best at the moment Fozzy Stack some spectaculars this season and none left behind.
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"anyone remember who trained Ra Nova ?!"
Nan Kennedy-Lambourn-Schweppes winner 33/1 |
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Talking about gambling stables and Ryan Price, I remember the first time I went to the royal meeting in the 80's he had an unraced 2 year old backed into favourite and won easy, it was in the Demitrou colours, can anyone remember what it was called? And has an unraced horse won the Coventry since?
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BBC Grandstand coverage of Ra Nova making virtually all in the Schweppes, a race requiring tremendous guts to win from the front:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_AQ1YNRbiE Ra Nova was a chestnut whose grand-dam (Honey Palm) was also the dam of Floyd, trained by David Elsworth. Floyd, of course, was also a front-running chestnut hurdler, and the bravest racehorse I will ever see. When Ra Nova won the Schweppes, I was sharing a £12/week bedsit in Kemp Town, Brighton. I had £11 left in the world, the rent was overdue, so I did the obvious thing you do when you're 22 and fearless: stuck a fiver each way on Ra Nova at SP (16/1). I love that horse almost as much as I loved Floyd later on in that decade. |
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Oliver Brady has won serious money,up there with the best of them
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