Colours that we used to know well.

Mr G J van der Ploeg,think it was Green with large white strip and sleeves,orange cap,had a lot of horses with Bill Marshall.

Correct Punchestown!    Now a hard one!   Whose racing colours were Silver Grey with Black Buttons and a Black velvet cap. Late 60's into the 70's. Another clue to follow if no one gets it.

Nelson Bunker Hunt, great name, great colours

Bunker Hunt - Light and Dark Green checks. Light Green Sleeve and a White cap.

The silver grey and black colours were a jockey turned trainer

Charles Engelhard Jr

Red, Green and Yellow.

Traffic lights

When I was 15 I got a great book for Xmas, every racing colour registered, loved looking through it, no idea where it is now

not gone thru the thread but ravi tikoo anyone remember his colours ?

apt Marcos Lemos, blue and white half i think.

captain

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30926221404&cm_sp=collec...

not gone thru the thread but ravi tikoo anyone remember his colours ?



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Think it was blue with yellow sleeves and sideways yellow box on body with a yellow cap,not sure though and don't want to google.

Ravi Tikkoo - Lemon, Royal Blue diamond and sleeves

Ravi Tikkoo - Lemon, Royal Blue diamond and sleeves

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I wasn't a million miles away..

Punchestown - The colours you quote are quite similar to those of Mrs Tikkoo - Royal Blue, White disc, Gold sleeves and Blue and Gold quartered cap

Thanks |Blackbarn.

excellent knowledge of colours lads well done

Charles St George of Ardross fame
Black, White Chevron and Cap
Think they later became Lucayan Stud.

I have a signed picture of Lester in those colours, To Terry, Happy Birthday, Lester Piggott, pride of place

John Mulhern back in the day when you could put mostly whatever you wanted on the silks-"Red with a White question mark on the back and front".


Galmoy winning the Stayers twice amongst the more high profile carriers of them.

Guy Reeds' silks were easily recognizable back in time, Black and Gold squares (Chessboard arrangement) with Pink sleeves and cap. Still used after his death by the family (?) but i don't know if they still are.

Andrew.Still being used I think.K Ryan.

Thanks Tommy

I haven't noticed the colours recently

Andrew.Memory not what it was but sure I saw them towards the end of 2022. Liked his horses in big handicaps back in the day. Sure he had a horse placed in the Derby ridden by Piggott who jocked off maybe Bleasdale or even AJ Russell.

Tommy - Shotgun, 4th in Shergars Derby, ridden by................L Piggott. Well remembered.

Thanks Blackbarn. I might be getting the jocked off confused with Dakota in a big Handicap at Goodwood.

No you are not.  Lester rang connections and asked for the ride!!!

The silver grey and black colours were those of a jockey turned trainer - Silver Grey Black buttons and black velvet cap - No one's got it yet, so more clues

A champion jockey and won several Caribbean Group 1's as a trainer.

Blackbarn , was it Scobie..

Bill Marshall.

I can only think he lust have been champion amateur jocket at some point?

*must have been champion amateur jockey at some point.

Yes Workrider, Scobie it is. Great Jockey and great colours, they'd fly if they ever came up for sale - Be a battle between Clipper Logistics and Young Hamdan.

Am I heading towards dementia or were there ever a jockeys silks with a quetion mark on. ?? ( dont laugh )

*  question.

Glasgow - Punchestown posted below - John Mulhern (Galmoy etc) had those colours.  Peter Dimmock (Sportsview fame) beat him to it. He had yellow with a black winning post.

Workrider. Well done re Scobie.Had the privilege of seeing him in action couple of times. Outstanding jockey in an era of outstanding riders. The first thing I was drawn to was the size of his hands. Blackbarn/Workrider. I'm afraid that in the company of you guys I'm a low grade plater.

Peter Pillar colours of Blazing Walker fame were a regular fixture in the 80s

GLASGOWCALLING

I have definitely seen the question mark on the silks in American racing, probably at Breeders Cup as I don't watch much US racing !

Peter Pillar of Blazing Walker fame were a regular fixture in the 80s

FOXY TOP First winner I backed at RA had a question  mark  on his back the jockey not the horse.Carlinford Castle.had a fiver on with Fred Binns.

nice one Ronnie, GLASGOWCALLING was wondering if he was going senile trying to think of one with a question mark

You couldn't miss the question mark on Mulhern's silks as it was the full size of the front and back.

Tommyofwest lanark, I can be a low grader myself on a bad day..

The Valentine colours were around a lot back then "Pink with purple hearts and pink hat",Cahervillahow and Rathconrath amongst her horses.

Punchestown - Re Mrs Valentine. Nearly! - her hearts were Cherry not Purple.  Mr Valentines colours were the same but with a distinguishing Cherry cap.

it's funny how you think of old fav horses and imagine the colours in your mind,

thought about Burrough Hill Lad (hooped sleeves) and a few from that era popped into my head,

Wayward Lad - blue and mauve
Combs Ditch - checked yellow and black
Egypt Mill Prince - all white
West Tip - blue with dark cap
Maori Venture - black with orange cap
Dessie - grey sleeves
Norton's Coin - black

feel free to correct me where I've got it wrong !

I think that Egypt Mill Prince colours had a fine stripe but mainly white. Egypt Mill was a big restaurant in Nailsworth only 4 miles from where I lived for 50 years and a venue for "special" occasions. I can't recall the owners name. Maori Venture was Jim Joel so Red cap, not orange. The West Tip colours were still around for the Luff family until 2015. Jenny Mould of Charter Party fame among many other good horses was Green with gold stars as I recall, but when Charter Party won the GC, he carried different colours as he was jointly owned with Claire Smith.

thanks for that, talking of Charter Party made the Geoff Hubbard colours poped into my head but I can't think of his horse(s), Mark Dwyer rode I think

Hubbard won the Hennessy once from Jodami who was ridden by Mark Dwyer who seemed to ride Jodami for speed. Next year the real Jodami won the Gold Cup when they went a right gallop all the way thanks to Rushing Wild.

Strong Promise foxy .

Workrider

That Strong Promise was a fine looking beast.

thanks ribero, that's why we love horse racing, reminiscing

Sibton Abbey was the horse that won the Hennessy @40/1.
21 or 22LB out of the H'cap.

Foxy Top. There's a P.Piller with horses at J. Stack in Ireland.Yellow with a blue square.From memory the Pillar horses trained by the great W A Stephenson carried yellow with a blue stripe.The Stack connection is there though (Tommy).Like you I recalled Pillar being the way the name was spelt.All from memory of course.

I thought Adrian Maguire won the Hennessy for Hubbard and not Dwyer?

isn't it funny how memory works, for the life of me I wouldn't have remembered who P Cheesbrough was if you asked me but when I clicked on Blazing Walker's form, I recall after Arthur died, his nephew Peter took over the training of the horses for a while, I wonder whatever happened to him !

madhatter • February 12, 2023 10:20 PM GMT
Geoff Hubbard : green, white sleeves, check cap

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Racing+mourns+Geoff+Hubbard%3B+Colleagues+pay+tribute+to+owner-trainer...-a060966276

Mrs. Christine Feather.

Peter Piller.

Guy Reed
Black and gold squares with pink sleeves and cap.  Very distinctive

Clydebank - See posts on this thread early morning on the 14th for several on Guy Reed.

Sageform - Thanks for the reply re The Thoroughbred Corporation.

Are Sir Stanley Clarkes colours still in circulation?

Very much so monarch. There is still a Mr Simon Clarke who had horses with Tom George and John Mackie who still trains Barton Knoll for him.

The stockboker from Enfield who had long hair and liked a bet, also for you old time northerners Hipperdrome racing.

Very good Ronnie!  Very similar except for Terry Ramsdens hoops and Hippodrome's stripes

The old "Daily Mirror Punters Club" colours before the change to the red and white ones were I think Black with a white sash,B & w striped sleeves and red cap?

I think that's correct Punchestown, because when Noel Whitcomb started the Club, they initially and for a while used Noel's colours which were are as you state (well Flame not Red!!!! - effing pedant!!!). Noel was fired by Robert Maxwell from the Mirror because the "bouncing Czech" didnt like the look of Noel's expense account. Pretty rum given HIS expense account was funded by Mirror pensioners.

Yeah Blackbarn,just going from memory remembering the silks,I used to like those colours,no cigar if not precise?

You get all the memory credit Punchestown.  I had to look up Noel's colours to check you were (nearly) right.

I had to google who was the owner of those colours blackbarn.  In doing so I found he died aged 91 in 2013.  In 2014 his daughter in law died falling down some steps and in 2019 her daughter, his grand daughter, was strangled to death by her boyfriend, a drug addicted German bouncer.

Sir Eric Parker of Seagram fame,

winning the Seagram grand national with a horse called Seagram can only happen in movies (nap)

i always remember the colours on that deliah of dickensons,black with pink tasselusa style on the cap,seem to remember a flashy black hunter chaser up kelso way 30yrs or so later wearing them, also sporting them
anyone no who,s they were

First Time Poster - What is the name of the horse again?  and do you mean Dickinson (as in Michael and Monica)?

I think he means Delius.

here is Delius against the mighty Desert Orchid, what a race, what an atmosphere !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOdSg2V98ns&t=357s

yeh sorry delius anyone remember the hunter,donkey,s yrs later think i saw it run at kelso on tv

Was the other one Royal Greek?  Was defo Rentons (Exors of) and ran in Hunter Chases.

Another long term colour is that of S Nelson who has several horses with with Tom George White with navy blue sleeves, star and cap. The claim to fame was a horse called Galileo-not that one but Galileo (Fr) who won at the Festival as I recall.

talking of French horses, The Fellow's colours were famous for a while with that Marqessa someone before I set off Googling

Marquesa De Moratalla was the full name and her other good horses were First Gold and Hours after who won the French Derby under Pat Eddery !

She was a great friend of Sir Peter O'Sullevan who managed her horses in GB as I recall. I remember a horse of hers called Agistment trained by Jimmy Fitzgerald. It had won a bumper at Haydock and then turned up in the same race a year later with a 7lb penalty. I happened to be there with some friends and because of the colours, I backed it at an amazing 10/1 and it won 10 lengths.

I think Jimmy Fitz also won the St Leger for her with Pat on board, can't remember the horse but recall something running in the Ebor

Sapience came 2nd in the Leger but did
win the Ebor.

Sage - That was Jan 96.  Horse died at Cheltenham Festival the following year, fell at the first behind Istabraq.

Correct. Sharon Nelson has a runner today, What A Steal at Wincanton. Galileo Fr was joint owned with Terry Warner.

That was Galileo(Pol). There have been plenty of Galileos over the years. The best-named was probably the one by Galivanter out of Tinted Venus. He made his 2yo debut on Sir Ivor's 2000 Guineas card at Newmarket in 1968, but he wasn't much cop, just a low-grade sprint handicapper.

There won't be any more now - at least not in GB, IRE, and perhaps FR.

So it was. My memory is imperfect over 27 years. who knows how good the horse could have been?

for a poor boy from a poor family galileo did alright for himself

A few old timers will remember the colours of Mr Hugh Odenell anybody know what he is upto these days.

just sat having a nice glass of Madri after a very busy day.

Ronnie.

do you mean Hugh O'Donnell of the Finmental fame ?!

I think he had black colours with something white on front !

Foxy

That is correct had one called Mentalasanything. he liked a bet ran a few Sauna parlours,

hope you are well.

Ronnie.

cheers mate, I think he had one called Norfolk N Chance and Weatherbys made him change the name

Foxy

will have a drink with you at dante meeting will tell you the storey about  Bernard at Ascot the year of the IRA bombings .

Ronnie.

jimnast's other account is foxy,

no problem with the mistake

FT

thank you

Ronnie.

Erik Penser colours just won at Newbury by Idy Wood,

can't remember what his best horses were but certainly the colours were famous at one time

Beauchamp Pilot won the Cambridgeshire,also had
the Eclipse wnr a good few years back I think.
Can't recall the name,was a fair price.

Compton Admiral 20/1

Penser changed his racing colours sometime in the 70's.   His now Orange, Black Hoop and White cap used to be the very Swedish Blue and Yellow halved with a White cap and Blue diamond.

Compton Admiral,that's it.
Cheers.

Great to see the Willie Wumpkins colours being carried by Ruby Valentine today
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