Anyone got a old Handicap Book I'll pay p&p...

Take a look on ebay....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=sporting+chronicle+handicap+book&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338792814&toolid=10001

Those were the days advertising in the Handicap Book , money for jam   

Aye, remember The Dawson Method? then there was The Cream of Racing

Binned all mine Workrider, had stacks of them back in the day.

When i've chance Tiger i'll root in the attic and post a few of my adverts , they're up there somewhere and moving house in a few weeks anyway so need to clear it out.

What was your nom de plume on there hayden?

More than one stew and reluctant to say in case someone on here made a purchase   

I dont think anyone would be bothered all these years on Hayden.

If you post some of your adverts we'll know anyway Hayden, i admire a bit of entrepreneurial spirit.

Receiving a cheque on trust in those days was the norm but surprisingly way over 80% used to pay up long term , the ones from the West Indies particularly memorable as they looked as colourful and exotic as you'd imagine them to be , needed a secretary in those days 

Just arrived home and seen 10 replies and thought surely one of these will be a offer , but to my dismay none

I kept them in piles in the 60s but tbh they all decayed.

I have a load of them wonky . Don’t worry bout the p+p, I can look after that. I knew ya are in Tallaght but what halting site will I address it to ?

Good man trumper

Yep.  Some good guys on here.

Think Thumper is taking da pesh, Tall acht, halting site?

you bunch of oap melts.

Split second he knew the times, and the made up letters and systems, where as today nearly every meeting for flat has 1m moved rail 10 yds 1m4f moved rail 30 yds so times today can’t be accurately calculated as rail moving 10 yds could mean 12 yds, the old days the concrete rails. Concrete rails could not be moved

Thank God they no longer exist.  How many jockey lives have been saved by these synthetic rails?  Must be dozens over the years.

thumper , the site beside you, neighbour

When I first started work in 1964 in a top London Advertising Company (McCann Erickson) one of the old messengers and runabouts for them was a keen horse-racing fan named George Wansall. As a then avid follower of form (I had a McLaughlan's postal account since I was 7, encouraged by my Dad and looked forward to the annual tartan clad year diary they sent), we would sit for hours in the stationery cupboard studying the form and entries for the coming week published in the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book. We landed a touch when the celebrated clairvoyant, Maurice Woodruffe, tipped Long Look to win the 1965 Epsom Oaks, which it duly did at odds of 100/7 and was thanked for passing it onto others in the Agency. I also vividly remember seeing one of the tipsters (odds to £) giving a free tip, Elan for the 1965 Schweppes which I duly backed in a local betting office and included it in a double to draw what was then a massive £40 ... from then on I avidly bought the SCHB each week, right up to when it finally ended when it was in competition with The Weekender, which I could never take to. I even had the green folder for each year to store the form pull out pages, especially for the early season 2yo system and Split Second's ratings (which I used to adjust myself) and made profitable.
It was not always easy to find at newsagents because there was no sale and return basis for it, so you had to order it and hope it was there on a Friday morning.
Sadly, when I moved house and downsized a few years ago, they all went to the dump because they were taking up too much room and now the computer has made it so much easier to study and collate racing results and entries.

Great, little story, kenny!

Ta!

Kenny

Kenny, enjoyed that , still hoping someone remembers they have one tucked away somewhere..