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Greyhound Derby Final Night
Make sure you watch on you tube tomorrow for the greatest greyhound card in the UK for years.
15 races = start 5.44 - Liquidity on here should be great
Just remember to have some CHEAP SANDWICHES handy
Make sure you watch on you tube tomorrow for the greatest greyhound card in the UK for years.
15 races = start 5.44 - Liquidity on here should be great
Just remember to have some CHEAP SANDWICHES handy
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I'll be watching. But for the distance I'd have driven to Towcester. Good luck to all the runners.
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The first Derby I saw was 1961.
Loved going to the white City for the Derby. Seems like a life time ago now. |
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Is it on Sky?
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Don't think so Swifty, the youtube coverage is good though imo.
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I'll have a look. Is Errol Blyth still commentating?
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Loved going to the white City for the Derby.
Was diffo gear Seaside , fantastic track , Great Atmosphere heart breaker when it Closed |
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Errol packed up
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Just have phone on standby
If it starts to buffer Had few teething problems on some of the nights I wish it go back to its old format being post 10 o clock Race, on 9.15 for shops ! Dusk Coral lads ain’t showing it so what % of shops Do they take up ? Can’t imagine to many punters In shops past 9pm on Saturday night |
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Casino Punters in Shop Fats , Nee dog Men , race should be under Lights ,sadly No more
Seaside did you post on the White City threads on the Dog forumm ? Were some great posters on there, First Final I seen was 75 So a youngster regarding the City , was my second Home never missed a Meeting for years after that there is Zero comparison to what we Have now .. I would need a Pair of Bins to watch the Racing at Towcester  £45 to get in tomorrow Some kind of entertainment put on , The only entertainment we needed was the Bar open After racing Meetings used to end after 11 even at the Don ,Wouldn't leave till 1 am on occasions at the Don .. As you say All gone ,replaced by a load of Bollox TBH |
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Fats, I will have the PC Connected Watch on BF if Tube playing up , The thing they Used last year Froze Mid Race During the Final
with thousands watching tomorrow night , Have a reserve ready if 6 breaks Level leads and wins IMO , If not anything can happen in the Next 30 Seconds , Sandwiches would be deserved winner Think 1 will run well at a price |
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Watched Some Derby Heats from 365 No problem there Good pictures no Buffering Good Luck Everyone
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The only entertainment we needed was the Bar open After racing
That problem at many events useless bar staff Been at few fiasco’s at Wimbledon, definitely the Derby at notttingham Where they have didn’t have enough staff or they couldn’t pull a pint (wimbo we had perfect spot On edge of restaurant where boys did half clocks best place to be with access to the restaurant bar, so no ****g about golden age sport even though fip the track rd Shelbourne never had that problem in derby final night Or night of stars £45 sheets tonight surpose get head rd it’s dog meeting It is what it is |
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1st Derby I saw was 1951. Ballylanigan Tanist. Never been the same since White City closed. Probably 60,000 for the final in them days. Bookmakers the length of both straights and some on the bends. How many will be watching from 50 yards away tonight?.
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I might not see many more
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Chin up Clacton, you have plenty of memories to keep you goig.
My first was 1975, I was only 17 yrs old and i remember getting stopped by a copper getting off the train asking me where I was going.  What an atmosphere that can never be replicated. Final result Position Name of Greyhound Trainer 1st Tartan Khan Gwen Lynds (Bletchley) 2nd Sallys Cobbler John Bassett (Private) 3rd Pineapple Grand Frank Baldwin (Perry Barr) 4th Myrtown Eddie Moore (White City - Manchester) |
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* Going
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Patricias Hope was my 1st at the White City.
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My school teacher saw me at the City one Saturday night. Monday morning he asked me what I was doing there. I said I liked the train ride from Ealing Broadway to White City.
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Glasgow
We could have walked past each other that evening, i was a regular at White City pre-1984, my favourite track and i saw quite a few Derbies. I was on Sally's Cobbler who almost used to scrape the paint off the rails and for whatever reason drifted away from it to let in Tartan Khan. The WC Derby was an incredible experience, nothing has come close to it in Greyhound racing since. |
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Patricia's Hope my first too and around 7 or 8 during that White City /Wimbledon transition . Had dogs with Paddy Milligan at the time and one made the Wimbledon heats (which I probably enjoyed more than final nights - not so many Irish certainties ).
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I used to go there a lot at that time,my memory is that bad I thought Myrtown had won a Derby till reading Glasgow's 10.50 post.
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Second Again
Myrtown was the odds-on fav |
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50 yrs later it has just dawned on me, I remember saying to my mate about the number of West Indians running about in the ring backing Pineapple Grand, well now I see the dog was Birmingham ( perry barr ) trained which of course had a large West Indian community.
Talk about waiting for the penny to drop.! |
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Thanks,if I remembering the correct greyhound he was normally electric from trap 1.I backed him many a time but mistakenly have remembered him as a derby winner.
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I remember that one very well GLASGOW. Posted about it on here many moons ago.
Loadsa money! |
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Don’t worry about it GLASGOW. Took 50 years plus to dawn on me why Dr McCoy on Star Trek was called “bones”,
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Myrtown made 3 Derby Finals Including Irish Derby Was short price in all 3
Tartan went on to win the leger Broke the track Record at wembley he was some dog |
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Astonishing to think that the guy who did the grading at W.C. told conns. to take Tartan elsewhere as he wasn’t good enough to make the grade there.
I wonder if it was the same guy who disqualified ( much disputed at the time ) Sherrys Prince as a pup, the dog who went on to win three Grand Nationals, and that after recovering from a broken hock. I contacted GbGb about their ridiculous exclusion of the great Sherrys from their Hall of Honour. The reply I got was “We can’t include everything”! The dog was second out of the box in one of twelve G.N. heats and finals, otherwise was never ever headed, Not to mention the two Scottish Nationals and other top class events he won in a stellar career. A brilliant, brilliant greyhound. |
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.. Yankee on the growlers ..
7.46: T3. 8.39: T4. 8.57: T6. 9.15: T5. "G/L 2~night" "If you~dig"  |
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sorry gents but what time is the final?
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9.15 Towcester Irons , live on exchange & You Tube
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Thanks Hayden,I shall watch on here but not bet!
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Ditto
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Why no in-running on the doggies?
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Probably winning in real time as the traps open here
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Inrun on dogs.....what year was that
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I'm on De Lahdedah (Tp 3).
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