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I think it was called the Handicap Book. It came out on a Thursday or Friday and only covered the weekend runners and races. I think it included football as well.
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Yes,can't remember much about it,same size/format as the post today with football at the back,my Dad got it every week,can't remember too much more like the columnists or tipsters? It gave you the 4 -5 day decs for the coming week i think which i'm not sure the life/chronicle gave then? Come to think of it was it called the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book?
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Gave the previous weeks results too.
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It was the addendum to the yearly annual, and one's only form guide if one didn't subscribe to the loose leaf service. I used it religiously.
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THanx guys I thought it was named something like that. I have several cuttings from the early 70's but no name of the newspaper. I didn't think it was necessary at the time.
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Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book was its full name. Plenty of pictures on Google!
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My Dad bought it from about 1963 and I took it or its successor until this millenium.
I think it was the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book,though I suspect at on time the name was more complicated,and it did come out on Thursday and focus on the Friday and Saturday racing ( not Sunday of course ). At 12 or 13 I used to keep the pull-out results section religiously for a year or more much to my mother's disgust. |
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I started a thread on here about it awhile ago if you can bring it up...
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Does anyone remember The Weekend Special...just a little envelope,perforated...printed by the Racing and Football Outlook...because of the style and fact it was stored behind the counter you thought you were getting something special...sadly not most of the time
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used to collect the results each week ended up with enormous toams of newspaper i used tp flick through trying to find collateral lines of form.......
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Just the same as - skiptoo (above) -
I used to painstakingly Sellotape - (No Pritt Sticks in those days) - all the previous Week's RESULTS Pull-Out together to create an enormous FORM BOOK .... until I was in a better paid job, and could then afford to Subscribe to the Weekly Loose-Leaf Binder Form Book. Dedication at it's finest. |
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Forget fast cars, champagne and birds - a sub to the Raceform and Chaseform loose-leaf form books was the sign of the genuine propunter. It felt like they costed much the same.
Having said that, I've got so much nostalgia for the Handicap Book pullouts I used to lug around the country on the train in the early '90s. Sellotape around the edges of every page to try and stop the tearing and fraying. Holes punched on the left-hand side and threaded with baler twine. And I did win enough with those pullouts in 1991-2 to buy a house, and I never managed that with the proper Form Book. Though that says more about the collapse of house prices thirty years ago. Well, that and how much easier it was to make the game pay before every bloody meeting was televised for the oiks at home to watch. |