Well Done Kaiya Fraser, not easy ......

Didn't know he was from Hackney as I once was.

Ann Stokell would have won on that. Plenty of jockeys come from modest beginnings, as do many other people (including me).

Like Sparrow, I too am from the mean streets of 'ackney

....although my part was North London (N-postcode). My Dad was a Hackney council architect so maybe Kaiya lived in one of his houses ?!

Well done mate for coming from London.

Thank you for your sarcasm Cider ...but i guess Id deserved it !

Did you have a tin bath?

In 1982

lol, it's just baffling how some people want to credit others for variables they can do nothing about. credit a jockey for a fine ride, go for it. but since it had a stone in hand, pretty much all he had to do was not fall off.

You'll get over it over it, cider.

Well just once anyway

True, as you did, surviving Hackney.

Literally millions of people were raised on a council estate. Well done to all of us

Cider, I wasn't initially raised on a council estate...but we did move to one as soon as we could afford it

Yes but dambuster came from the posh part of Hackney.

Sorry my mistake meant devils advocate not dambuster from the posh part.

^ Indeed...De Beauvoir don't you know... what what what

It was a brilliant place to be. For me anyway. As a kid I had loads of pals within a few hundreds yards, playground 100 yards away and an allotment to go and play football on. Plus they put on events like summer fates and fireworks. People reference growing up on an estate as if it was akin to living in a live war zone. We didn't really know any different, and I would not change it.

The only part of Hackney to return Tory councillors. Even a young Tony Blair lost a council election in Queensbridge ward

Whats being black got to do with it,rode it to victory end of.

May 25, 2024 -- 6:23PM, 11kv wrote:

Whats being black got to do with it,rode it to victory end of.

Considering how many black people there are in the country, there's only 3 jockeys and zero trainers.
I think he's done extremely well..

May 25, 2024 -- 5:50PM, devilsadvocate wrote:

....although my part was North London (N-postcode). My Dad was a Hackney council architect so maybe Kaiya lived in one of his houses ?!

Me to devils, my postcode was N1.

dambuster, did not N1 cover Hoxton and Haggerston?

Yes sparrow, I went to Shoreditch school in Hoxton, that was my manor, Drinking in Archies weekend.
We lived in New North Road, i was born in Barts and lived in Popham Street when i was born. Moved away in 1990

A house on a council estate you say? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.

- You were lucky to have a room. We used to live in corridors.

- Oh...We used to dream of living in a corridor. Woulda' been a palace for us. We used to live in an old watertank on top of a rubbish tip. Got Woke up every morning by having rotten fish dumped all over us.

dambuster 27 May 24 15:11 
Yes sparrow, I went to Shoreditch school in Hoxton, that was my manor, Drinking in Archies weekend.
We lived in New North Road, i was born in Barts and lived in Popham Street when i was born. Moved away in 1990




My mother lived in Wenlock St Hoxton as a young girl in the 1920s.

My aunt Flo, use to live in Wenlock Street I use to play Darts in the Wenlock arms sometimes, my brother had a pub in
Shaftesbury Street, The Shaftesbury Arms

Someone I once knew worked in a pub at Fanshawe Street in the 60s which I expect you would have known.

Its all changed round there now. very gentrified. My brother still lives in Islington as well as 2 of my cousins,
My daughter stays up there a few times a week through work. I rarelt drive there as the last twice i've been fined for driving up roads
i'm not supposed to. Mayor Khanunts fault