gary wiltshire

You cant help but like the guy.

Nice fella, although I would be a bit miffed if I had to wait 4 years to get paid!

Lucky it wasn't Clare Balding doing the interview.

I think he meant the assets eg houses, cars, etc gone overnight, but 4 years to get back to where he was prior to Dettori tsunami.

Smashing bloke
Always had a chat with him at the tracks or ptp courses
Londoner, but I think he lives in the Midlands now
Looks like he's a bit lighter than he was

Nice to still see him at it. To be fair he must have been rubbing his hands before that last race all those years ago. laying it even at better odds than the surrounding pitches were, as he clearly thought it was money in the bank. ive had a few wallet smashers over the years, but cant imagine the feeling he had when it hung on...

Great guy Gary sooner listen to him than a few of the others working for itv.

Great guy Gary sooner listen to him than a few of the others working for itv.

if ya go on youtube and tap in his name theres some very good interviews of his ups and downs ,well worth the watch.

he'd probably still lay you 2/1 Fujiyama Crest, couldn't win ..

Had the runner up and 3rd that day in 2 singles, still cannot believe my pocket did not open for the winnings.

Lovely man, one of the good guys for sure.

Just occasionally posts on the Greyhound forum.

sold up to payout,did'nt he?
honourable man.

Just had a watch of the betting people vid of him on youtube, lost a couple of bottom teeth since that interview. hope he didnt have to sell them....top bloke

I've always appreciated gary since one afternoon at Wolverhampton, when I went up to him to back a horse where he was the stand-out price. He knew how hard of hearing I am.

"Look," he said. "I know you won't have heard the commentator. That horse has got loose." And there it was indeed, running around down the back straight without a jockey.

Great to see how much weight he's lost too. Well done. I always picture him at Southwell, making full use of the refreshment areas, tottering back to his pitch beneath a pile of pizza, chips, hog roasts and crisps, with a tin of Diet Coke perched on the top.

OLD school .top bloke

Can you believe its nearly 25 years for d day for Gal, he says he can still hear the bell as they swing into the straight.

i will give Corals they due give Gal time to pay one firm wanted him hung out to dry.

hope you are all well.

ps for all the gloom merchants who say the shops have gone the shop today had one of its busiest days EVER.

Regards

a very tired Ronie.

Ronnie.

hope ya well Ronnie - i see Sky have tightened up their bets for next years festival after being filled in on the 33/1 Shishkin/Honey Double - i was so sure you were on


im in a music mood tonight afta a tough day at the hospital  and cant currently sleep but always enjoy ya input so please forgive me cos i cud tell ya many a tale about that Cockerton shop and esh on Gary/Frankie Sunday - mebbee send ya a pm in time

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

Always struck me as a good guy. Good to see him.

Legend.

Smirnoff

very sad that you are not feeling well, i was on chemo nearly a decade ago so i feel for you,
Yes i was on shiskin double at 33/1 sad to say the other horse was Envoi Allen went off at 4/9 and sad to say we all know what happened to him.

hope you feel a bit better today

Ronnie.

Got to admire that not only has he come back from that day but has also coped with no on course bookmaking for over a year.

I thought he sold nearly all of his pitches?

In the name of balance perhaps there should a statute of Gary Wiltshire, next to Frankie Dettori's statute at Ascot racecourse! The “seven winners in a day” story was not just about one person. There were the horses, the stable staff, the trainers, the people who saw it happen and the bookies who took a bashing.

From what forumites have said Gary is quite a character, one with some integrity, a quality sorely needed in the horse racing world these days.

Also, to contemporise the scene at Ascot we could have some statues depicting a punch-up alongside the Victorian racegoers near the pre-parade ring. Although no doubt punch-ups have always been part of racing.

TINotaTON we might need to crowdfund to get Gary's two bottom teeth replaced!

One of the good guys , a diamond to boot

Must be 25 years since he handed me a couple of Scottish £100 pound notes in my winnings one afternoon at Stratford, i never batted an eyelid as i stuffed them into my wallet even though they looked like play money , which was more than the teller at the bank did when i banked them.

Tony (G & T) Williams once paid me with a £100 note from the Allied Irish Bank one Saturday afternoon at Bath 20-odd years ago. The rest of the afternoon went less well, and by the end of it that note was the only readies I had left. Which is why I ended up having to use it to buy a pint of milk on Sunday morning. I'm pleased to say that the girl in the Castle Cary Co-op did not bat an eyelid. Folk in rural Zummerset are evidently a bit too worldly for that.

still £100 notes knocking around on the racecourse.


regarding gary never a dull moment with him always great to see him.

Jimnast I meant to ask how did Goodwood go..

it was ok workrider tuesday and wednesday fine but from thursday onwards the crowd and the racing get worse,its by some way the worst of our 4 festivals.

Grand National is worse , if you include that as a 'festival'

a meeting that kicks of with 4 grade ones and in total has 6 grade one hurdles and 5 grade one chases plus the grand national

I was paid out with scottish £100 notes at Aintree some years ago.
Anybody remember the year it was a horse called Barton in the big novice race'?
I had to back the first odds on shot with the tote to make sure it was legit.
Went out in the evening to a greek restaurant where I told my mates that if the waiter takes the note I will pay for the meal in as I thought it was sure to be rejected. To my cost it wasnt!!!

Mythwa

He won the then grade 2 novice in 99

Won the aintree hurdle in 01

Grade 2 novice chase in 02

His aintree hurdle win was by 14 lengths from best mate he had won the sun alliance hurdle by 9 lengths he was a better hurdler than chaser in fact he never won again after winning the grade 1 at aintree,,he was well beaten in the ankle mind you he was up against one of the greatest two milers ever that day.

Just digging around I hadn’t remembered he started of finishing 18 of 18 in a Huntingdon bumper when trained by Charlie brooks

Barton won the GD2 3M Nov' Chse @Aintree.

*aswell

Owned by Stan Clarke (Sir).

Barton was actually first past the post in that Huntingdon but was disqualified for running the wrong side of a hurdle wing early in the race but carried on.
He also whipped round at the start!

Thanks Saxon I hadn’t realised that very lazy of me.

jimnast - My post @ 8.07 was referencing the crowd not the racing . I guess I didn't make that clear but wasn't fully awake at time of reading your previous post .
Apologies , Reynard

No need to apologise reynard however from what I’ve seen I much prefer the Friday Saturday crowd at aintree than the goodwood Friday Saturday crowd.

Good luck

Catterick today lovely crowd and many here for the racing.

I'll be driving past Catterick in 30 minutes

You should just catch the last race bring your sun cream

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination for me

Reynard


Are you hand delivering tomorrows ratings to the barracks?

Jimnast, did you pre-book,pay on the door, or go in the middle for £5.
I was thinking of driving the 180 miles to go, but would have relied on walk-ins being available.
Size of crowd ?

Is this fat tatey still not paying or cleared his debt

cleared it yrs ago swad ffs

cleared it yrs ago swad ffs

Went Notts tonight last minute decision paid on gate but had to be card.

Good morning Mike

You could pay on the gate by catterick standards it was a fair size crowd both in the main stand and in the middle.

Smir, respect to him for paying.

Not a bad word all thread tells you all you need to know about gal. Legend. Seen him at Warwick a couple of meets ago and a gent as ever. Top bloke.

Used to stand atHall Green, HGS

I remember when Oxford Greyhounds got rid of him because of pressure from off course bookmakers.


If you could bring back one track which would it be and why ?
I’d love to bring back all of the tracks that we’ve lost over the years but if i’m restricted to just the one I’d have to say Oxford.  I loved it there , especially on a Friday afternoon.  The local Rover factory would see their shift end at 2pm and many of the lads would head straight over to the track, pockets full of wages and hoping to turn it into a nice few quid.  I loved it but it was actually a willingness to take on such punters that ended up with me getting the sack there.
A representative of the big three firms wanted to shorten a dog up for a monkey bet. I said ‘I’ve just laid it for a couple of grand at 7/2 you’ll have to have more on’.
He obviously wasn’t too happy about this. The last race of the meeting was 6.16pm, by 7pm the track manager John Blake had rung me up to say my services would no longer be required at BAGS meetings

What does he post under on here? Top bloke, had many great nights at the derby with his knowledge and stories

gin n tonic

Ty Reynard

posts only occasionally on greyhound forum as "gal".

Gal

Ditto

Last time I saw him standing at the dogs was Coventry mike. Tbh, can't remember him being at the Green. But I was only there from 90's onwards.

Gary used to stand at Milton Keynes as well, the dog track was the only good thing about that godforsaken place.

Did you ever used to go to rye house,slippy

No I never went there BB, I did move to Hertfordshire not far from the stadium though but just after the track closed. I went to Henlow and Walthamstow instead. I grew to really like Walthamstow and when that went the game was gone for me.

There was a Walthamstow dog,Upton rocket that won the sovereign at rye house a couple of years running that we had a good go on,those were the days.but it got a bit rundown & so was no surprise when it closed

Wasn't Rye House a flapping track at one time?

It was regulated by the ngrc in the early 80s when I used to go,think it was unregulated at one time earlier

Yes I'm probably going back to the 60s and 70s at least.

loved his line "Dion Dublin from Homes Under The Hammer" !

Sundays night at Rye House opens.
Ernie Gaskin cleaned up.

Everyone must remember Gary’s catchphrase with Bob Cooper… firty free  to one Robert, firty free to one..
Bob still says it regularly on ATR track broadcasts.

If you could bring back one track which would it be and why ?
Swaffham please.
Tuesday, Friday, Saturday.

Clapton no question after supplying the Derby winner throughout most of the 60s.

1966    Faithful Hope    Paddy Keane (Clapton)    8/1    28.52
1965    Chittering Clapton    Adam Jackson (Clapton)    5/2    28.82
1964    Hack Up Chieftain    Percy Stagg (Belle Vue)    20/1    28.82
1963    Lucky Boy Boy    Johnny Bassett (Clapton)    1/1F    29.00
1962    The Grand Canal    Paddy Dunphy (Ireland)    2/1F    29.09
1961    Palms Printer    Paddy McEvoy (Clapton)

used to love catford dogs a good value for money night out as were most if not all the tracks .great atmosphere and the giant totalisator board  a few bets a pie and a pint even if ya did yer dough you had a decent night .

Yes, I can also remember him being at Milton Keynes slippy.

If you could bring back one track which would it be and why ?


  Portsmouth ngrc, Aldershot flaps. ,.....   so many happy days.

Catford for me as well, I can remember first going with Dad in 1973 aged 7.

Hackney Wick Saturday mornings, then Selhurst Park in the afternoon and Catford in the evening. I did that sporting hatrick for years!

Those were truly the salad days.   

1970s saturday morning in the bookies hackney and crayford dogs when the dogs finished the horses started ,into  the boozer 2 doors down from  mecca bookies watch the horses and stick the bets on in the mecca ,horses used to finish around 5 or 6 iirc, a bit of grub then off to catford dogs finished around ten back home by 11 then playing cards till silly o clock in the morning . not a lot of gambling opportunitys in those days

No offers Clevleland Park.

i started going nearly 50 years ago used to take my tank of about 4 quid often could not afford the 6p train fair from Thornaby to Darlo, wish i had a couple of quid for everytime i hid in the toilet from the ticket collector.

just thinking it was a bloody long walk from the track to the station  in the pouring rain and freezing cold,

but i was back a few days later.

great days

hope you are all well

regards

Ronnie.

Saturday, Hackney Wick in the mornings,Haringayi in  the frozen Saturday afternoons, then on to the White City in the evening.
Hard to match in my opinion.

White City, especially on Derby night.
I miss Peterborough now its gone, not able to pop down there on a boring Saturday night anymore.
I used to go when i was 14/15 and lock my bike to a post and climb on the saddle to get over the wall. Rex knew how i got in but turned a blind eye. Those were the days you could get a bet on when underaged, no id needed then.

proper way to spend a saturday foyles happy times

Hall Green glasgow for obvious reasons
Miss Cov also

Aldershot and Reading for me