1974 Flat season help please

You should find it in the Times archive, but the searches sometimes miss. June 4th was the win. Post again if you can't find that issue.

@ Salisbury

Arthur Pitt trained.

1974  MERRY CRICKETER - 4-y-o ch colt

Ran 10 - WON 2 - 3rd once - 4th twice.

First Win - 4th outing - Salisbury - Tuesday June 4th 4:00


Durnford Handicap   6f  Firm

1.  MERRY CRICKETER - 4-8-11 - Brian Jago
   (looked well, not clear run 1f out, led inside final fur, easily)

2.  Falsa - 5-8-1 - Phillip Waldron
3.  Noirmont Point - 6-7-10 - J Gray7

Dist: Three-quarters length, neck   -  9 ran

Trainer: Arthur Pitt, Epsom
Owner: T Kelly

SP:  3/1 2nd fav (from 7/2) - 8/1 - 8/1
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Second Win - at Newmarket - was on 8th outing.

Does anyone use the British Newspaper Archive, if so I'd like to know is it easy to use?

The more you use it, the easier it gets. The scans that I have looked at though are very poor quality.

Thanks for your help fellas, much appreciated. Yes it's still missing from the Times Ged which as you say can sometimes be the case however Onlooker has filled the gap for me. I was going to subscribe to the British Newspaper Archive hoping to browse some old copies of the Sporting Life however it doesn't look like it'll be of much use as it looks like it only goes as far as 1912, a bit before my time

I am sure the owner or part owner was a publican who owned a pub by the same name in Rotherhithe.

candobetter....They are adding to the Newspaper Archives every week so you just need to keep checking. I myself am waiting for them to digitise a particular newspaper for the 1940s and 50s.

I'm not sure why you don't see the issues for June 4/5. I can browse them (through the Gale portal, via the National Library of Scotland).

The horse was trained by Albert Davison to start with. He won his one and only race as a 2yo at Leicester at 14/1. (One of the also rans, at 33/1, was Confusion, who, as a 4yo, 'won' the infamous Queen Anne of 1974 when the first 3 home were DQ'd). He was then down to run in the Lockinge (won by Sparkler) on his 2nd outing as a 3yo, to be ridden by Michael Kettle(5), but was a NR - instead he ran 3 days later in an ordinary 3yo handicap at Leicester off 8-2 and wasn't in the first 4 of 7 runners. I don't know what Albert was doing entering him in the Lockinge - there were 13 runners, so he wasn't likely to be nicking any place money. Do you know better?