YOUR FIRST EVER BET ON THE NATIONAL

RED ALLIGATOR 1968 WON.

So long ago that I can't remember but my first winner was Sundew in 1957. The ones I really wanted to win in other years were Wyndburgh and Freddie for Ken Oliver and  of course Crisp. How I hated Red Rum:-)

Freddie

Did Fred Winter ride Sundew or did he train it? What age were you then mate, if you don`t mind me asking. That was a long time ago.

I was allowed a shilling each way on a loser in the year of Devon Loch 1956.

Freddie - forever the bridesmaid

Devon Loch was sad.

Apr 8, 2016 -- 11:07PM, Oldgit1 wrote:

So long ago that I can't remember but my first winner was Sundew in 1957. The ones I really wanted to win in other years were Wyndburgh and Freddie for Ken Oliver and

Quote: Freddie - forever the bridesmaid Cry

Anyone remember what price Freddie started at. It was very short on the day.

he was short the second year he ran like 7/2

7/2 in 1965

11/4 in 1966

Docklands Express, 1992. Finished 4th.

I am not sure that it was my first bet but the first I remember was Border Flight.

Yes Fred Winter rode Sundew and I was 22 and had been married for almost a year. Something I have said here before. The race was on a Friday then and we had listened to it on a radio at work. There had been a board meeting that day and when one of the directors came downstairs he asked me who had won. I said Sundew and he asked if I had backed it. When I said yes he said that he had been on it as well. His name was Denman!
I think that the winnings went towards paying off the HP on our three piece suite. My wife had picked the most expensive one in the shop at £106. The salesman smiled and said that you have picked a big spender there. It moved to several houses around the country with us and I gave it with some other furniture to the couple we sold a house to in 1993 when I retired. Perhaps he still has it.

grittar(early 80s) was my first i remember, also remember winning with halo dandy and west tip was another one of my early gambling day winners of this amazing race.

One whose name amused me was Shelia's Cottage (50/1 in 1947)and some of my uncles backed it perhaps for the wrong reason. During the Edinburgh Festival there was an old bus that had been converted into mobile toilets and parked in under the Castle in Johnston Terrace for the use of people going to the Tattoo. Painted on its side was Shelia's Cottage.
Lovely Cottage also ran unplaced in the race that year.

Oldgit, £106 was a lot of money back in 1957 and would be worth more than £2300 in todays money.

Sparrow. you could have a good night out for a pound.
It was 2/3d. For an evening return on the Tube from Wimbledon to anywhere in London. I think that the top price for local cinemas was 2/9d and theatres about twice that. Speedway and Ice Hockey at Wembley was 2/6d. I remember going to the London Palladium on spec to see Nat King Cole and not going in as they only had the top priced seats at £2.
London to Edinburgh was £5 return on the train or £3 by bus. 
I can't remember how much it cost to see Chelsea in those days nut I remember being there in 1954 when Royal Tan won the National and in listening to the race there on my Tranny in 1967 when Foinavon won.
Around then they used to have Stand By tickets on flights and late night and weekends it was £3 single to Edinburgh with half price for children.

I bet a horse called Galloway Braes, but can't remember if it was in the National, another, going way back was a horse called Loppylugs, sounds like one from St Trinians. cheers.

I don't think that  Galloway Braes ran in the National but I remember being at Kempton when he won on Boxing Day and of his battles with Halloween.

Romany King in the 90s.  Never backed the winner until last year so I'm due another spell of utter dross.

can 08 Apr 16 23:46
grittar(early 80s)

It Could have went round again..

Not only my first bet on the National,but my first ever bet:6d EW on Team Spirit in 1964,the winner at 18/1.

Nicholas Siver half a crown @ 28/1-I was 15yrs old a neighbour put it on for me - I ran down the road to Civic Radio a local TV rental shop - watched the race through the shop window - no sound but couldn't mistake Nicholas grey/white - I was jumping up and down on the pavement with people in the shop thinking I was having a fit - that was the day I began a lifelong pursuite of 'The Glorious Uncertainty of the Turf' - Good Luck to all today!

6d e/w Highland Wedding in 1967. Backed it 3 years running, so my first winning bet was when it won in '69. As I was 11, I have no idea if my father gave me the correct winnings, mind

Hello Dandy 84 !

a whopping 5p on Crisp...hooked after a loser.

10p on crisp
I was big time

Anglo 50/1 won. 100/1 just before the off.

the first time i was allowed a national bet as a kid was on romany king got placed, me grandad staked me r.i.p

red aligator shilling ew

Also Red Alligator

Red  Alligotor as well .... was it 100/8 or 100/6 ...?

Rhyme N Reason 1988, Fleet St Corals think it was £1 ew.

Early Mist for 6p e/w  Vincent O'Brien's first national winner

Most recent  RTW , had a sneaky £10 on @ 63/1 on here ....

Well done workrider Get the drinks in

..... 100/7 Red Alligator btw

Well To Do 50p e/w 14/1.

Heading over for a weeks racing on 16th so need everypenny with prices in England themightymac..

You`re right there workrider, rip off merchants

..... they won`t even take Scottish money

Sassenachs

When I was 7, my parents gave me the paper and a pin which I stuck on Anglo. They put 6d on each way for me. Untold riches for me - over £1 10 shillings.