MOMENTS YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IN RACING

Days when Fitzy wasnt on the TV everyday.......

surely when you've backed a winner or land a big placepot are most memorable to you..............watching races back though I get a tingle when I watch arazi at the BC

Devon Loch in the National.

willos face when hawk wing won the lockinge by a street

Landing the jackpot at Leopardstown in 1980 when I was the only winner.

A lowly bumper at Doncaster, 1/3/1997. 

Eddie Callaghan doing the business on Landler at 33/1, a horse I had gone to look at only the weekend before the race at John Norton's yard in Barnsley and was told it would have a decent chance and would outrun it's odds. 

http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/profiles/horse/1836/landler

Grundy v Bustino head to head

crisps gallant effort in defeat in the grand national

Mtoto's first Eclipse

Merit winning the Chester Cup in 1996 carrying 7-10. I'd hoped all winter that it would be entered after winning three races the previous November. I went to Chester for the week and come the day got slightly cold feet and split my stake with a horse of David Abels.

Absolutely in unison with joevalue147 there.

I had beast in double with 20/1 winner

Maguire, utter tosspot.

Didn't have a bet over jumps for 3 or 4 years, subsequently.

I am slightly more philosophical, now.

**** is indeed a forbidden word, no one appears to know why, happened on another thread, must have been something "controversial"

Secretariat winning the Belmont

seeing Claire Balding tell Liam Treadwell after he had just won the Grand National, that he could afford some new teeth

Ballyandy winning this years bumper, last leg of a treble, Un Temp, Diego Du Charmil

Sea Pigeon-Saw the horse at York ebor win and @ haydock in a big hurdle win.A horse which didn`t run a few times and you never see it again but were able to follow summer flat and winter nh over a number of years-suppose get me going to the races

Frankel's 2000 Guineas was indeed quite the most extraordinary race, Andrew.  Many of us will have read reports of Tudor Minstrel's 1947 romp, in which we were encouraged by greybeards, possibly through on-the-day enthusiasm or subsequent rose tinted spectacles and without the aid of tracking cameras or indeed any cameras at all, that this horse had the field stone cold by halfway, won by 8 lengths and could have won by 20. Yeah right. No doubt he won well but I've seen hundreds of European classics and I've never seen that.

Then along came Frankel.....who proved the impossible was possible and made you wonder if those '47 race reports were right after all.  Simply outstanding and if I ever see a classic won like that again I'll consider myself very, very fortunate.

Red Alligator..Scottish Rifle,magical names from my childhood.
Watching a preview on yorkshire tv on the eve of the 2000 guineas ,Mill Reef v My Swallow,it was a two horse race.
Watching Red Rum win his third national.
El Gran Senor winning "that" guineas.
Hawk Wing,thrashing the rest of the Lockinge field.Frankeleque.
Seeing J Francome's creased half washed hooped silks before he mounted See you Then at Doncaster,where it beat little bay(chaser) in a photo over hurdles.
Dickinson's first 5.
Slip Anchor winning the Derby,i was on at 20s after Cecil said after its lingfield trial that it would go for the leger not the Derby.

Actually being there to see a race live, Shergar's Derby will always be number 1 and I've seen pretty much all the greats over the last 40 years, flat and N.H.