Your fav horse that most people wouldn't remember

Rodman
The Dealer
Jovesworth
Fingals Cave

Jimsintime…. trained by Bob Brazington

Anyone remember Gods Solution think it was my first ever winner.

Easy for me. I owned 25% of Jefferies, a small horse who loved Taunton. He had 4 of his 5 career victories there and was unbeaten at the course.

Soaked, a sprinter, fantastic over 4f!

Great to watch Dean Mernagh, ahem, smashing hell out of it to get it home at Southwell!

Jjmbe,
Remember Newtons Point winning at Cheltenham (not the festival) but a very nice race there.

i used to like a sprinter called Vilgora in the mid-late 70's. Also around that time, a handicapper called Dred Scot - both won a fair share of races.

Wasn't Soaked in the Chaplins lub colours ?

Lots of these sprinters before my time.

Precipitant
Petite Etoile
Egg
Larkys Lob

Morgans Choice, sprinter in the early 80s

Rambo’s Hall, was looking through the Cambridgeshire card on the Friday and noticed how well it’s form was working out,, knew it went in the mud and the forecast was for a deluge.Went round a couple of shops picking up 22/1 and 20/1 on the Friday night. Headed over to HQ on Saturday, never forget those orange colours bursting out of the gloom about 5l clear. Got drenched in the weather and loved every minute. Went round the shops picking up my winnings on Monday morning, wonderful memories..

Morgans Choice (C Hill) was a stayer, not a sprinter - won the Chester Cup.

Jun 1, 2023 -- 3:36PM, TheAnorak wrote:

Morgans Choice (C Hill) was a stayer, not a sprinter - won the Chester Cup.

A late after time but I remember him well, he was the second leg of a double with trapeze artist that won me a few quid. It just scrambled home in a photo in the Chester cup.

Jun 1, 2023 -- 3:32PM, fairweather wrote:

Rambo’s Hall, was looking through the Cambridgeshire card on the Friday and noticed how well it’s form was working out,, knew it went in the mud and the forecast was for a deluge.Went round a couple of shops picking up 22/1 and 20/1 on the Friday night. Headed over to HQ on Saturday, never forget those orange colours bursting out of the gloom about 5l clear. Got drenched in the weather and loved every minute. Went round the shops picking up my winnings on Monday morning, wonderful memories..

Some horses you will never forget, nice .

Saint Motunde and Rays Swallow both of Bryan McMahon just average h'cappers, SM was ridden by Lester Pigott in a race i think was over 6fs, ran down the field, got off and said "needs a 1m", won his next 3 on the trot over 1m and 7fs i believe, 1st time i think was at Thirsk at 25/1, Bryan went down the line of bookies having a tenner or Score on with all of them, said he'de never seen so much money as he stuffed it into every available pocket.
Rays Swallow was an unraced hurdler won 1st time out, think i got 14/1 as shortened from 25/1, very happy days early 80s, lots of big priced winners from the yard before bookies cottoned on.

No better feeling in the world than a double digit winner and filling your pockets, you feel like some kind of Einstein who's seen something that no one else has.

Memory must be going, sure it won on Eclipse day, Dancing Brave maybe

Mine are all 90's/00's sprinters

Westcourt Magic, used to come out of the Chester stalls like a scalded cat for Mick Easterby

Perryston View (Peter Calver)

Orientor (Jim Goldie)

Quito (David Chapman)

Reverence (Eric Alston)

A Plumpton and Huntingdon specialist (two tracks I often attended in the 80's). Often entered in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, so I often backed it and because it kept losing gained me the nick name of the Plumpton Plonker. It eventually came good winning at 14/1 & 50/1 at Plumpton late into it's career. A good example, of why you should always keep the faith (the Ledgers obviously saw something in him ).

The horses name was The Fruit

I know that one SA, being a southener course form at Plumpton and Fonters always good in my book.

Me and some mates about 20 of us used to sponsor a race at Fontwell in memory of a mate, Colin Brown was a guest speaker at our lunch and says i've had a word for Fruity o'Rooney later paid for the day, that name The Fruit just brought back some good memories.

In the early 80's as a young teenager I always had my 50p on a handicapper called Lucky Dutch that for some reason I took a shine to.

Keelby Cavalier winning at 16/1. I was in a Mecca in Edgware Rd near Marble Arch; the horse got me into horseracing regularly.

Super Sam ridden by Jimmy Lindley won the News Of The World Handicap at Goodwood 2 years running.

Mons Beau won the Newcastle Plate,saw it win at Sandown walked into the bookies hoping to get 12/1 for £30 got 40/1 and it won,but had to wait for a long Stewards Inquiry,think it was 1980.

Manhattan Boy. Set your watch by him round Plumpton

Jj

Catterick has both a race and a bar named after gods solution

Raspberry

I was only talking about vilgora on this forum a couple of weeks ago Steve perks was his jockey

Melendez for the pipes. Winning machine

When the mud was deep , the great DUCK FLIGHT splashed past that post

I remember a Hannon snr inmate I still use its name today ,

JAFEICA ,,

u lot must remember what it stood for

Just Another F*cking Expense i can't afford.

sarras venture on a wetday at winsor won lots

JAPSILK , 2 miler back in the day got me my 1st ever round robin up,think it was same day FEAR NAUGHT won hun t cup at royal ascot,might have been at the aways,
late 70,s
and of course SOBA coming back from defeat to win stewards cup at inflated price because of been defeated in previous outing,after a string of impressive wins,also liked the sprinter ORIENT in the same period

Khayrapour who won the Schweppes Golden Mile at Goodwood in 1995.

Had been desperately unlucky when second unlucky on its previous start at Sandown and me and mate watched that race in the bookies and immediately snapped up 25/1 that was showing for the Schweppes before they adjusted the odds (those were the days).

On the day it was 15/2 but was drawn in stall 21 of 21 - pretty much mission impossible at Goodwood.
Stayed wide the whole way and won in a photo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZP8_KcHIo

Ball Gown.....Was in a bookies in Exeter i got a proper tip from a lady who was part owner of the horse. won at 14/1
Went on to win another 3 on the trot....that got me hooked

Twoboyz01 Jun 23 17:15
Manhattan Boy. Set your watch by him round Plumpton

I get your point, but he was beaten 50 times at Plumpton and was unplaced on 29 of these. BUT BUT BUT - He was a real hero of mine and won 14 times at Plummers and never won anywhere else. They even took him over to Belgium, but with no success. All his 14 wins were in sellers and he contested the Peacehaven Selling Hurdle SEVEN times and won five of these. The first three ridden by Penny Ffitch-Heyes and the second two by Adrian Maguire, no less.

Al Hareb
Daarkom
Elmaamul
Forest Sun
Bank View
Vouchsafe

Jinxy Jack & Randolph Place despite being INFAMOUS in their day for falling when long odds on for the Cumbrian Gordown Richards.

Multiple Times the last 2 ^

Birds Nest hanging when under pressure.

My first ever greyhound, Freckles, got me and the missus married 44 years ago with a quite memorable win on my stag night.
Paid for the whole shebang, and a lot more that year.  Happy days.

Remember when the stands were packed at Greyhound Racing now not many go,used to enjoy Saturday evening at the Greyhounds.The track here closed 2 years ago hardly anyone went.

Venus of Streatham, horse from mid-1970's. Won a series of little nurseries and liked Catterick. At 3 it even placed in the Jersey at Royal Ascot.

My mum and dad's very long time neighbours had a son who was a salesman and on his travels he got a tip for the horse before it won its maiden. I then followed it with my 50p each=ways and it won frequently, nearly always at reasonable prices.

After that one, Space Blues from 2019 onwards. Very unheralded Goldolphin horse that took a York handicap at the Dante meeting with amazing ease under 10st plus. I then followed it throughout its very successful career, mostly abroad.

So, there you go, two horses coming up to 45 years apart!

O I Oyston............Chester legend!!!!

O I Oyston............Chester legend!!!!

First horse I ever followed with enthusiasm (and bear in mind this was well before I was of an age when I could bet, probably not even a teenager at the time) was a chaser trained by Albert Neaves called Copperless. 2.5 miler if memory serves correctly, had some success in minor races round the likes of Plumpton and Fontwell, occasionally tried with no success in larger more valuable races.

Cardinal Scott

When jinxy jack made his hurdling debut at Carlisle I owned the runner up so it was with great interest I followed his career ,he ran in the champion hurdles won by the brothers Morley street and granville again and even when close to his 10 th birthday he ran at leopardstown in the grade one 2 mile hurdle.as far as I am aware Kelso never named a race after him .

I recall a summer Saturday at Haydock in 1977. Got into the course as the first race, The Sporting Chronicle Handicap, was already underway but made it to a few steps up the stand to witness what turned into a furlong long duel between an Steve Nesbitt trained animal called Crimson Silk, and Barry Hills’s Mofida who came out on top. She was shortly bough by Robert Sangster and was highly tried the following season, acquitting herself with credit. But as a mare it was Juddmonte who benefited as she turned out to be the second dam of both Zafonic and Zamindar.

Over the past 20 years I was particularly smitten by Chic.  First saw her when she won a maiden at Chester, looking a good bodied animal with scope and substance against a bunch of wiry, scrawny looking individuals by comparison. As is typical of the Stoute / Cheveley Park individuals, she developed into a high class performer after being kept in training at four and five. Sadly, I am not sure if she ever foaled - she never had a runner on the course or even one listed as in training, and never saw her mentioned when Cheveley Park release details of some of their mating plans.

One on my list would be master Beveled who incidentally chased home another one of my favourites already mentioned by mat,ball gown on the rowley mile.

Master beveled ran over 150 times he won an apprentice handicap at Newmarket ridden by seb Saunders,won over hurdles at Windsor ridden by Tony McCoy,he raced on the aw and ran at Folkestone,he ran in the supreme novice hurdle won by indefence,3 lb claimer Robert Thornton rode him in the Scottish champion hurdle,he won the agfa hurdle at sandown beating shadow leader and won the haydock champion hurdle trial beating Wahiba sands and pridwell who beat istabraq at aintree,

He finished 3rd in the hattons grace at fairyhouse beating by limestone lad and istabraq,he even won over fences at fontwell

@verbotene liebe:

Chic had at least one foal - Tim Easterby's Golden Apollo is her grandson.

Looks like Elan was Chic's only produce.

Thank you for that heads up Ged. Does look as though Elan may have been the only foal and that there are no more directly descending mares unless Elan has something  unraced that is being bred from. Nine years since she last foaled a runner.

Friendly Neighbour trained by the Barnstable Butcher C.J Hill.

Not necessarily favourite but certainly most memorable. Late 1990s, was in my late teens, dragged a friend to a BH meet at Fontwell. He had never been racing before and had little interest, I thought I knew everything.

Selling handicap chase (remember those?), he decided he was going to have a fiver each way on a horse called Gabish - a Bernard Scriven-trained 12yo that was 6lb out of the handicap and hadn't won for five years. I looked at the form, scoffed, and told my friend it would be more sensible flushing his five quid down the bog. He bowed to my expertise and piled in with me on a Pipe beast instead.

Gabish promptly made most and held on grimly from the fast-finishing said Pipe runner, at an SP of 33/1. My friend took it in good humour but has never let me forget it.

Nowadays I struggle to remember what has won anything after a day at the track, but I'll always remember Gabish.

Master Butcher, Norwegian Flag and Thornton Fire, all around Fontwell

Glencroft, one of the first horses I backed when the old man would put bets on for me. Won a good few times, but think it had a windpipe OP and was never the same again.

Vakil ul Mulk. John Meacocks. Did me a real good turn.

Gabish, in 1997, was a 12yo, sent up from Taunton by permit holder Bernard Scriven, one of the good old boys of West Country jumping and a great source of big-priced winners back then. He used to insist that it was his daughter who was responsible for training the ones who won. Gabish had run well in a couple of selling handicap chases at Hereford and Ludlow back in the early autumn (and less well over hurdles, where the horse had no chance, in the interim).

I had £50 each way at 50/1 with John (Joe) Bates (also betting with the firm that afternoon was the bookie Pat Cash, who sometimes posts here as CASHLESS). Eddie Fremantle had a good bet on it too. The old horse took it up with a circuit to go and held on all out from a hurdler of the Martin Pipe Racing Club called Shikaree (won loads of races over hurdles, but thankfully none over fences).

Fremantle and I were yelling it home in the packed stands, when we noticed a slightly older gentleman standing next to us yelling it home with equal gusto. It turned out to be none other than Scriven himself, who was at a bit of a loss as to why we'd backed his horse (it was well out of the handicap). Fremantle explained that he'd in fact backed the horse 10 years earlier when it had won a 2yo maiden at Brighton for Sheikh Hamdan. Obvious really.

John Bates was a terrific and very fair bookmaker, but he never had a chance to show it for the rest of that afternoon, having been cleaned out for the day with that one bet.

The funny thing about Bernard Scriven was that he turned out to be a lovely, friendly bloke, but always used to call me "Dave", which is not my name. We couldn't work out why. Was he channelling his inner Trigger or something? In the end we worked out that he'd asked Mick Connorton, a hack on the Life, who I was, and Connorton had explained that I was deaf, and Scriven had misheard it as "Dave".

Sabrehill, trained by Henry Cecil
Pulled like a pully thing all the way in the Juddemonte and went lame in race, still finished 2nd
Retired straight after. Oozed quality.

Pat Cash remembers Gabish at Fontwell (doesn't quite remember the year or the trainer, but there you go):

CASHLESS-LOOKING GOOD
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WE WENT TO FONTWELL ONE BANK HOLIDAY ME JOE AND THE SHOPLIFTER FROM LEICESTER ...WE STOPS OFF AT THE LITTLE CHEF ON THE ISLAND OUTSIDE FONTWEELL IT WAS RASMMMED BUT WE GOT A TABLE THIS WAS 1988...SITS DOWN TELLS THE GAL 3 POTS OFF TEA PLEASE PICKS UP THE MENU SAYS TO JOE AND ANDY HIS NAME WAS ,RIGHT LADS HAVE WHAT U WANT THROUGH THE CARD SO THEY LOOK AT ME WONDERING IF IM SERIUOS THE BIRDS THERE WITH HER PAD AND I SAYS ILL HAVE THE GARLIC PLATTER TO START AN OLYMPIC SIZED BREAKFAST EXTRA BACON 6 SLICES OF TOAST FOR AFTERS ILL HAVE THE CHERRY PANCAKES AND RASPBERRYS DOUBLE ICE CREAM....SO I NODS TO THE OTHER 2 AND SAY GO ON WHAT EVER YA WANT ,SO THEYVE HAD THE LOT ,45 MINUTES LATER WERE ALL LICKING THE PLATE ......UL ANDYS LAGGING BEHIND AND HES HALF WAY THROUGH HIS PUDDING I GETS UP SLOWLY AND GIVE JOE A LOOK STARTS HEADING FOR THE DOOR AND JOES UP ME AR.SE ANDYS HALF TWIGGED ON AND REALISED WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND HES NOW ON THE GALLOP ,WALKS PAST THE TILL NEAR THE DOOR WITH THEM PAIR TRYING TO GET PAST THEYVE RAN PAST ME GETS IN THE CAR AND DRIVES OFF WITHOUT ME IVE HAD TO LEG ACROSSS THE ROUNDABOUT INTO THE TRACK ...........THE BIZ WAS VERY VERY GOOD IN THE FIRST RACE THERE WAS A PUNTER CALLED DEAF PAUL HE HAS A A FIFTY AT 50-1 A HORSE CALLED GABISH TRAINED BY FFITCH HEYES IT BOLTED UP AND WE WENT SKINT FIRST RACE WE GOT THROUGH THE DAY AND WENT HOME WITH ENOUGH FOR THE JUICE TO GET US HOME.....HAPY DAYS

https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/29443049/on-course-bookmakers-funny-stories-got-any?origpost_id=527876101&pg=2

Many good memories with these obscure horses.

Mellotie       Mrs Reveleys star whom i followed from her early races.
Cima           A grand servant to Jim Old who loved soft round.
Kytton Castle  Low level mare for Robin Dicken in the 80s
Brave Tornado  Won me a nice few quid trained by Toby Balding and loved heavy round.
Black Minstrel Cannot remember the trainer but won its fair share of handicaps.

Black Minstrel was trained by Duncan Sasse 70s/80s

Cima was not that obscure in his day! He won a flat handicap at Royal Ascot and was second in both the Triumph Hurdle and the Champion hurdle. He was the first horse to be beaten by a mare who had an allowance in Dawn Run and was only beaten half a length. In the Triumph he was beaten by a horse that had won over hurdles in the spring in France. The conditions are "for 4yos" and say nothing about novice status and I think that Shiny Copper is still the only Triumph winner that had won in the previous NH season. So Cima was unlucky in both of his Cheltenham second places in that the winner was unique in one case and the first (mare) in the other. Cima did try fences in later years but was a bit wild and took a heavy fall at Towcester.

Some good memories remembered .

Wollow.

noddle- pillar to post job at catterick was his forte

Ekbalco, top 80's hurdler, trained just down the road from where I used to live

Tactico - very gutsy consistent northern? NH horse possibly. Can't remember who trained it.

verbote
as kids my mates parents new steve nessbit and went to his yard a few times on visits and backed his hanibal lector UBEDIZZY  a few times when winning once at a nice price

Maurice's tip seemed to run every other day in the early eighties rarely winning but usually placed

Mademoiselle Chloe romping home at Ayr

Selkirk winning at Ascot

First class horse I remember backing was Cracaval ,Barry Hills and Cauthen I think .Handicappers of that era I remember wins on ...Blakesware County ,M.Jarvis?? Hooligan ,Pat Rohan I think .Good memories .

Rigton beau.

Won at uttoxeter late December,80s,knew the owner,paid for Xmas,  my first inside info winner.

Looked the best on form,so knowing the owner was pointless,but just highlighted it’s chance.

Paris Pike.

Had a pub in Northumberland in the 90s which Major Ivan Straker and his wife were regulars. Came in one day, just bought a real chasing type out of Ireland, going to win the SGN then Aintree next year.
What a crack his novice season was mostly up in Scotland, absolutely lumping on, never a bad price either. Sure enough, won at Ayr, although I think Marlborough would have given him a race if he hadn't run in the NH Chase. Tipped up at the first in GN next year when near fav. 
Not really a follower of jump racing, but that winter sticks in the memory.

Screaming - fantastic Gabish story, thanks very much!

Just goes to prove that I did indeed know nothing, and probably still do!

Bobsbest, sprinter in the early sixties. Used to stand outside the betting shop as a boy and listen to the commentary. Bobsbest wasn't up to much but he never stopped trying and earned me a few sherbet dabs via my elder brother. They have reused the name since but that one was worse !

Happy Jack: Fremantle and I also backed a lot of 50/1 losers in those days. I still do, come to that.

Grand Canyon won the US equivalent Grand National ended up in the London Horse Guards.

Penny Drops - bailed me out more times than I care to remember in the early 1990's.

Started life as a mediocre 2yo (but she went into my notebook when she finish a very well beaten 2nd behind Musicale trained by Sir Henry Cecil, on that horse's racecourse debut). Musicale went on to be unbeaten as a 2yo and ran up six wins on the trot before eventually being a well beaten fav in the 1000 Guineas. Penny Drops ran 4 further times as a 2yo and was awful!

So apart from that one run that I note-booked, Penny Drops had a mediocre career as a 2yo. So she started life as a 3yo handicapper off a mark of just 47 - and she bolted up at 10/1. She never looked back after that, rarely finished out of the frame and won 10 more races (usually at nice prices), including the Cambridgeshire by 6 lengths at 7/1, a Group 2 at Sandown and a handful of valuable/group races in Italy and Germany.

What a girl! - that initial 10/1 win on her 3yo debut more than paid for all my subsequent bets on her and she was campaigned in such a way that all her wins came at times when I really needed them.

Firefright - a 4yo handicapper from 1973.
Always ridden from way off the pace and used to finish like a train. Possibly trained by Bill Marshall?
Green, white sleeves, orange cap

Ceol-Na-Mara : 5th in Rag Trade's 1976 Grand National as a 7yo.
Died before it ever got chance to run in it again.

Swinging Rebel was 70's , backed it enough times including one Saturday when it was the last leg of my yankee, the first yankee i ever got with all 4 winners !

Fond memories of some horses from back in the day : Karen's Star/ African Safari / Fascadale / Radetsky / Cave Warrior / Nagwa / Traffic Leader who i believe ran his final race (7F) at the ripe old age of 17 !

Cauda Equina for Mick Channon - approx 1997-1999 ish?

Fav or cliff horse is questionable.....I backed it every time it ran and never once got a shilling return.

It ran twice in a week once, and that week I was away with my then girlfriend on the Isle Of Wight.

My Dad called me up thinking i'd likely chopped it off and I wasn't aware the bugger was even running.

Still makes me laugh to this day.

I hope you don't mind me posting this but for the record.....

Cauda Equina racked up 11 wins from 98 runs, Horatio.

Those last two wins were only 2 days apart.  Had also won two races, 4 days apart, back in September '98.

Cyrano De Bergerac....beautiful horse...white feet

Supermaster ..  my pocket  money went on him every Saturday afternoon.

A handicapper called Keelby Cavalier (16/1). This is because he won me some money at a Mecca betting shop on Edgware Rd near Marble Arch. There was no picture then a just ticker-tape commentary and a boardmarker. I went to an evening job after. I was a student then.

La Estrella 41% strike rate from 70 runs Only won £83,000 in career but I bet there were some lumpy bets on it

The name of the horse was Keelby Kavalier.

Quite a few along the years but Piccolo is one that stands out. A non racing friend rang me to say that he had a hot tip for Piccolo in the 1995 Kings Stand at Royal Ascot and didn't know anyone else with a credit account. We ended up with £50 e/w between us and it won at 33/1. Mick Channon again.

Ikdam...won a bog of a triumph in 1989, was then and remains my biggest priced winner.

Yamadori

The grey sprinter Marchand d’Or for Freddy Head won July Cup with Davy Bonilla had ice in his veins

A horse in the 1960s who I recall twice doing a big turn in Ascot handicaps at big prices - The Tickler

top2rated 15 May 26 10:09 
I hope you don't mind me posting this but for the record.....

Cauda Equina racked up 11 wins from 98 runs, Horatio.

Those last two wins were only 2 days apart.  Had also won two races, 4 days apart, back in September '98.


Not at all T2R....thanks for posting.

I maybe should have been clearer but I didn't back the horse every time it ran but every time I knew it was running. I never collected...not once.

If those 2 results in Sep 98 are as you said 4 days apart are from my very poor memory approx 9/2 and 15/8 sps then that was the week I was away with my at the time girlfriend....I was 21 and she was 28....Racing was down the list of "things to do" if you get my drift.

In the mid 80s as a teenage kid I had a soft spot for a horse called Lucky Dutch, always had him in my 2 1/2p round robin and listened to the racing results on the hour on radio 2 with fingers crossed.

The mid 80s was also my grounding in the sport and Chaplins Club was sensational in 88, he ran 27 times, he ran 9 times winning 7 in only 18 days during July and August, a feat surely never to be repeated.

Wasn't Glencroft another one similar?

Same trainer, Chapman

Egg

Must have been running about 30-35 years ago. Used to run on late in big field sprint handicaps.

and also

Shades Of Jade

Similar early-mid 90s time. Sprinting mare who was lightning fast (at a modest level) for about 3.5 furlongs. Would gradually get fit enough to last home in a race or two midseason.

And I see Egg already has a mention here!

Had a google and apparently Chaplins Club record was beaten by 1 day by one of Prescotts in 2004, Masafi, 7 wins from 7 in a day less.
Glencroft also managed 7 in a season.

Glencroft actually managed 9 wins in a year, Chapman could keep them sound thats for certain.

Hunters Treasure, Eric Cousins hurdler, won 6 or 7 on the bounce, early 70's. Bob Davies, E Wilson and George Cadwaladr