The Top 10 Footballers who are / were into Racing

I'd wrote off no.7 until the Great Hall sequence stung me pocket a wee bit.

Probably kept him in pies for a bit

He's done well with that horse tbf

I think I may need ged or onlooker's help to name a few from the good old days.

Look at his face, just look at his face...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmQk2lK_Ks

Rooney bought a couple off no.3 didn't he? But then his brain cogs started slowly whirring and he sussed out that he hadn't made the greatest investment of all time.

* No 2 on the list, obv

Good call mouse, forgot about that, wasn't one of them called Pip or something similar?

Charlie Austin?

Can't remember the hoss, but wasn't there also some trouble when Owen turned out to be an agent for star sports or some similar crew?

I didn't know about that, mouse

In what capacity, SL?

tbf Rooney did pick up some prize money with Your Art Is On Fire

Who remembers Seebald?

https://www.empireofthekop.com/2014/03/11/five-liverpool-legends-that-own-horses/

Austin owns a few I think, seems to be on the box a lot, I think he has a few, Not sure if he's involved in breeding also.

seebald, the scousers owned it didn't they, fowler and mcmanaman?

Cheers, SL, I didn't know that.

yes, pencil fowler and mac in at 9 & 10

Yes SL, it's on that link, and that one owned by Terry Mac that won a few for Jonjo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-382569/Owen-Rooney-war-pou...

1. Mick Channon
2. Francis Lee
3. Michael Owen
4. Joey Barton
5. Sir Alex Ferguson
6. Kevin Keegan
7. Mick Quinn
8. Peter Shilton
9. Steve Mac
10. Terry Mac
11. Robbie Fowler

I'm sure you will all agree, a thoroughly well researched, flawless top 10, with no shocking emissions!

What about Paul Merson and Tony Adams?

Owen introduced Rooney and a number of other England players to Steve Smith at the start of the season after becoming tired of running the team gambling school.

Until then Owen handled the bets, but the sums of money involved became too large and he instead recruited Smith to take care of matters.

Smith set up a private bookmakers called Goldchip Ltd, but it was only last Thursday that he obtained a gambling licence.

Before that, he is said to have been acting as a betting agent on behalf of Rooney, Owen and a number of other players — believed to include John Terry, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand.



Fortunately the current young breed are more into world of warcraft or whatever the latest game is than proper gambling, thus promoting a greater sense of harmony within the squad which can carry our boys all the way to world cup glory

I think it's 1.01 WR didn't pay the alleged £700K, mouse

Sure, but he never did buy another nag off Owen or anyone else.

From my time in racing I know the following all had horses, or involved in horses.

Alan Ball
Sir Alex Ferguson
Charlie Adam
Charlie Austin
Joseph Barton
Neil Ruddock
Lee Power (Ex Norwich player, done the matchday programs for years, now owns Geneva Power (Green and white checks) and owns Swindon Town)
Alan Shearer
Harry Redknapp
Mick Channon
Kevin Keegan
Michael Owen
Steve McNamaman
Robbie Fowler
Emile Heskey
Michael Chopra
Kevin Phillips
Mick Quinn
Alan Brazil
Ian Wright
Steve Coppell
Paul Gascoigne
Matt Le Tissier
Wayne Rooney
David Beckham

Stan Bowles a shokking omission

Peter Lorimer
Bryan Robson
David Platt
Terry Yorath

Joe Cole
Paul Merson

Surprised that Niall Quinn is nowhere to be seen....

griezeman had a winner the other day

claudio pizarro

Chris Kamara is a very shokking omission

Griezmann

Alan Ball actually was a racehorse, trained by Sue Wilton.

Always had a squeak in 2-mile chases.

Johnny Lester's Hair.

domino14 is a bit of a name dropper, if you ask me

Brian Labone - was at least part-owner of Goodison (maybe with Alan Ball). I think it was a 7f horse, and won at Chester, possibly more than once.

Ally McCoist had a hurdler/chaser a few years ago...name will come to me

Isn't Keith Gillespie a schocking ommision, don't know if he owned any but certainly did his conkers on a fair few.

Emlyn Hughes another absentee

Always remember that time on Fantasy Football when Frank Skinner said they were giving away a prize, and it was the pen used by Keith Gillespie to sign for Newcastle, and from his pocket he produced one of them little red bookie pens

Lou Macari

Billy Dodds had,possibly still has,shares in horses trained by Jim Goldie

One with a fearsome gambling reputation was "The Goalie" Andy Goram. He used to hire a plane to go to meetings to back his fancies.
He lost £25K one month when he was playing for Coventry in 2001. Both of his wives and many a girl friend kicked him out for his drinking and gambling. His second wife got a court order to prevent him getting his hands on the house sales proceeds fearing he would blow the lot.

Cue the famous football ground chant “there’s only 2 Andy Gorams”

(He battled with schizophrenia)

I remember a horse called Rix Woodcock

Ally McCoist had a horse called Fishki with Micky Hammond , if I remember correctly . Stephen Pearson and David Marshall had an all weather winner a few years back. Geoff Brown ( ex St Johnstone chairman ) had several decent horses in the past trained by Mary Revely . Lucinda Russell trains for him now .

Antoine Griezmann

Ah! Rix Woodcock! Time to re-post this one again:

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rix woodcock named after the 2 players was a cracker only in what happenend in a mecca betting shop in east finchley in the 80s.

there was a young kid i know who was managing this pokey little shop in the days of boardmen.

anyway he was sitting in the back room when he heard the young cashier screaming so he runs out into the shop the boardman is standing on the built up platform and he  has got his c0ck out and having a five knuckle shuffle over some old dear who is oblivious to him as she is writing out her bets.
there are 2 postman in the shop and one of the horses mentioned on the old extel commentry is rix woodcock and there shouting out give it some woodcock.
he then blew his beans over the old dear.

this story is 100% truthful because i know the manager and he then tells me the boardman got nicked 6 weeks later whilst working in a petrol station and some bird has pulled up and he has run out of the kiosk stark b0ll0ck naked with a stiffy on and shouting let me fill you up

Been trying to remember Fishki's name all week...Billy Dodds had one with Jim Goldie which won a race at an Aintree meeting,French name but mind's blank trying to think of it

Frank Worthington is one of the greatest omissions EVER!

He never knowingly missed a race meeting at any club he played for.

Dean Saunders loves the horses and the dogs. He sure did when he was at Brighton.

And don't forget Stan Bowles partner in betting crime at QPR, the very talented Don Shanks who when he was broke had a spell as Darryll Holland's driver****-bagman and a very decent fella he is, too.

Dean McKeown rode Kevin and Mrs Keegan's first winner. Was homebred and trained by Franny Lee.

lead on, was it Lampion du Bost...?

It was, 66/1

Go Go Gunner's roster of owners covered the whole cast-list of 1970s football: Peter Marinello, Charlie George, Alan Ball, even Stan Flashman was involved.

The nag actually won a few races too.

Cheers...think he was on Sportscene a few days later and he gave a wee mention to it

Davie Cooper's afternoons were all spent in the bookies....Jock Stein was great friends(and a great customer)of Tony Queen...don't think either went into ownership,though

I should have mentioned Bob Paisley was particularly good friends with the Frank Carr, the irishman who for a long time trained in HK

and Winfried Englebrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the HKJC played for German U21s alongside such luminaries as Rudi Moeller who has been seen out visiting him and at the races