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A dark cold morning and the first of the two year olds are having their first look at the gallops , you hide in the bushes binoculars focused on the one in front as they gather speed you notice a bay arrive on the outside and pick the leader up as if it had stood still. Blood pumping and the dream begins again , is it the one that brings home the bacon .
You refocus your bins , note the trainer and with shaking hands pencil in the date and hopefully exit without been spotted . I'd imaging that's how work watchers spent their early mornings in the late 40s and 50s, what a life . Don't know what brought that on...
You refocus your bins , note the trainer and with shaking hands pencil in the date and hopefully exit without been spotted . I'd imaging that's how work watchers spent their early mornings in the late 40s and 50s, what a life . Don't know what brought that on...
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George Davidson - 70's / 80's old fashioned work watcher with a tipping line
I was 11 years old when Abernant got done on the line in the 2,000 gns. Think I had 6d ew. Turned out to be a cracking sprinter.
Was rated 142 by Timeform.
Was rated 142 by Timeform.
Apr 13, 2022 -- 11:48AM, 3 valleys wrote:
Had a stutter so his calls lasted longer
Good job Derek Thompson did'nt have a stutter. 
Before my time Clacton but from what I've heard he was some machine . Gordon rode him I believe..
Remember George wetting himself over Green Green Desert b4 his newmarket debut piled in at any odds SP 3/1 Fell out the stalls went right clueless and then Walter got hold of him and flew home to mucho relief all round
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