how lovely it would to have the july meeting tomorrow -thursday

yup, used to be lovely, the Barry Cope fish wagon, the fruit stall in front of the stands..........alas never to return

Barry Cope seafood - mussels, winkles, cockles, the lot; best ever racecourse food

i remember the meeting back around 1985 , listening to the princess of wales stakes on the radio , and up to few days ago i was convinced id backed lanfranco at 8/1 to win , now i did win at 8/1 , but it seems the winner of the race was petoski, could anyone confirm if petoski did win at around that odds , or im going potty

Petoski wins the King George in 1985 full race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj49zBrIZDI

i remember nipping out of the office to watch the 86 July Cup (i had to google for the year..lol).....Id backed Last Tycoon....bloody loved that horse, Green Desert won....The bookies i was in was heaving, midweek.....jammed packed on a sunny midweek afternoon.....It really was better days...im sick of all the best races being compressed into a saturday, which has weakened their appeal immeasurably imo.

Petoski was 8/1

Lady Beaverbrook was fond of 7 letter named nags but not always Vouchsafe and Minster Son being 2 exceptions.

cardinal thanks  , but in my mrmory lanfranco had won that race, i knew i had 50quid on the winner, i went around the office going nuts,

cardinal thanks  , but in my mrmory lanfranco had won that race, i knew i had 50quid on the winner, i went around the office going nuts,

Another bonus to when it was Tuesday to Thursday was every 4 years the World Cup semi finals would take place during the fixture so a good days racing then some tea then the football,the one that stands out is in 82 sharpo winning a cracking July cup then west Germany beating France in the game where the French forward nearly had his head removed,if they had the dreaded var back then the goalie would have been arrested never mind sent off.

Good afternoon north east

Without doubt the best soft ground sprinter I’ve ever seen but was very good on anything,after a low key debut I can’t remember where he was thrown into the temple stakes which was ran at sandown in those days ,he won at either 50/1 or 33/1 ,sharpo won three nunthorpe stakes which back then was called the William hill sprint the 2nd he beat marwell and moorstyle the first three home that day would all be in the best 5 sprinters I’ve ever seen,in his 3rd win at York he was ridden by the great Steve Cauthen who on dismounting said it was the fastest he had ever been on a horse.

Yes it's easy to think back and remember when 'times were better' But ,as the song goes 'somethings

lost and somethings gained in living every day'. We tend to forget the down sides of the past.

Racing has been most affected by the arrival of the internet and the ability to sit at home and play

the horses and watch the races live while not paying the massive over-rounds of the bookies.

It's like many things today. For example 50/60 years ago you could go to Venice, if you could afford

it, and you would have seen the real Venice inhabited by real Venetians with Venetian culture.

Today you can fly anywhere in Europe for pennies which is great except now, as a result, Venice and

most other places are over-run with tourists and the Venetians and their culture have disappeared.

It's now a giant museum!

So up side: you can easy get to anywhere cheaply and quickly, down-side: the destinations are not

as worth while going to. Take your pick.

If 50 years ago you were given the choice when it comes to racing of the status quo or the ability

to sit at home and bet on anything you want, with still the opportunity to attend live racing and

being able to access film music and information at the push of a few keys what would you have

chosen?

It's taken me most of my life to realise there's not point in looking anywhere else but at to today!

Hi Jimnast was at York the day Pat Eddery won on him which I think was the 2nd of his three wins
used to go to the Ebor Meet a few times in early eighties - great times

the July meeting is still good but the final day is lost a bit in all the Saturday fixtures

still think the best meeting of the year , and this has been changed from tues/thurs to wed / fri , is the dante meeting , and also i like the craven meeting

Internet.  Instant betting, instant information.
I remember running down to the bookies to get a bet on a nag in the 2.00 at the July meeting, the intention being to rush home to watch it.
I got home and the horse was already beat.  lol.
Captive Flower.

I agree.  They mess up everything, at least reduce its quality, by allowing marketing stiffs, with no sentiment or knowledge of the game, to hold sway.

Excellent post rogerain, you will never see what lies ahead, if you
Keep on looking back?? And You can’t influence the past, thé internet
Is the biggest thing to influence society, since the industrial revolution

Some of it good, but lots bad, especially for the younger generation, it’s all they know,
And most of it has had dire consequences for society ??
And the worst is yet to come ??

Going to be in Can Picafort Majorca for the July meeting,  anyone know of anywhere to watch the racing?

G hall never been to can picafort but would be very surprised if you were unable to find somewhere to watch the horse racing even in sleepy Madeira there’s a pub that has it on.