Takes me back to my Dad asking me to pick one in each race and going through the results at 18:00 every Saturday evening before getting fish and chips if i'd picked well.
He would have picked his own but made me feel like my selections were important
Takes me back to my Dad asking me to pick one in each race and going through the results at 18:00 every Saturday evening before getting fish and chips if i'd picked well.He would have picked his own but made me feel like my selections were important
I will have a field-day working my way through this lot, and trying to find other similar old videos
Only watched first one, so far - Always knew about the 'camera van' following the field from the A57 road alongside the length of the straight mile at Lincoln Racecourse; but the extra shots showing the whole BBC broadcasting set-up and direction was immensely revealing, and an astounding tribute to the technology that they used at the time. ✅
Watching that Lincoln Handicap - I thought - Winner Marshal Pil = Jockey Joe Sime - and the Runner-up Chalk Stream = trained by Eric Cousins. Although I was too young to have seen the race at the time, I have, or rather now had, a long-standing love affair with the Lincoln Handicap, so was aware of of some the post-war results.
Well, I was nearly right - as Marshal Pil was trained by Sam Hall - who Joe Sime used to ride for - but the jockey in the Lincoln was Peter Robinson, top jockey to trainer George Lambton, and late a good trainer himself, and father of similarly future jockey Phillip Robinson
OH, BLIMETY - Horatio I will have a field-day working my way through this lot, and trying to find other similar old videos Only watched first one, so far - Always knew about the 'camera van' following the field from the A57 road alongside the length