Favourite punting stories

JAMES BLOND
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Re: Favourite punting stories

8 years 1 week ago

easy wrote: I don't have stories right now but I have snippets of memories:

1: the BIG toppie at he door of Loveday Tatts stopping us from getting in
2: Xavier - owned by the Leishers
3: Martin Sham bookmaker in loveday Street layed me 20/1 a Roberto Sasso ridden horse and laughed while asking me if I wanted another R10 on at 25/1 , I did and Sasso delivered. Martin was fuming
4: Bruce (worked for Bill Ferguson) when he labelled one, well race over
5: Chips Massalla at the shop next to lovely Tatts
6: Zoro and Derek the deadliest punters for a long time
7: Warren Zaki overtook Derek and Zero and became a legend (assisted by his brother Frankie)
8: Ian Lightfoot on one setup by James Goodman
9: Dougie and Pierre fighting for the jockeys title
10: Brutus winning for Stanley Ferreira
11: Budwin Nassif promising Frikkie Vermaak an AMG if he won the SA nursery (Don Habib won it with Goldmark)
12: Upstairs at Q's supper club on a Thursday night lots of racing people and Eddie the barman always had a winner
13: Empress Club
14: Sloop
15: The best Dressed lady on any racecourse in the world....I think it was Mr Josephs daughter, a Lebanese lady....cant recall the name
16: Kundalini winning for Hilda Podlas
17: 31st December , last race of the year at Greyville and Marlon Aromstan has a horse running. We back it from 9/2 into 8/10 BRING on the new year

That Lady wasn't it Sally Abrahams?

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Deva G
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8 years 1 week ago - 8 years 1 week ago

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My 3 memorable days...

Just out of school and go to scottsville racecourse and I back a horse called Solle survivor. Only reason was it ran decent races at scottsville and horribly elsewhere... Shat in through the mist in last race...came home lonely.

Listening on ecr to commentary.... Waiting for jackpot last leg ..in so far and don't have the top two in betting....commentator says too close to call between favorite and Tourissimo....result first no 13 Tourissimo....Think it was 1995.

Tickets and tax and Teal roving with the field quartet for July....long ago but 1st and fourth... Memorable day

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easy
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8 years 1 week ago

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Yes Sally Abrahams

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8 years 1 week ago

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Alec Uzent had a horse in the last called Page Boy which I saw was part of a three way coupling. In the 2nd last there was an odds on favourite named Double Haig... but I was mad about Get Cracking at 12/1... so that left me just one leg to find, the first leg which was also the feature race and first leg of the Jackpot.. I took four horses ( Distinctly won the race, th Page Boy was battling but stable companion Kebbelle was going great guns, and duly won. ... anyway there is a good sequel to this story but another time...[/quote]

......my Dad also won big on that day.....mainly because he wanted to buy Kebelle at the sales but was outbid by Alec Macurdy ( also owned Queen Of All) my Dad mistakenly told Alec's wife Maizy about Kebelle at the sales.....Kebelle was a useful filly landed up winning 5 races and placed in several juvenile group and listed races 2nd in the Allan Robertson behind Shelter....Dad backed Distinctly/Cover Crop/Kebelle and caught the Jackpot too....

....when Alec Macurdy passed away my Dad landed up training a few horses for Maizy.... she even helped him financially and set him up on a small holding near Margo's drag racing strip off Heidelberg road..... :huh:

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johnnycomelately
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8 years 1 week ago

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Long ago,as a teenager i was crazy about horses
One night i fell asleep with the racecard on my chest
Just before i woke from my dream, i saw a horse's name in bold letters ..."ICE CLIPPER"
We went to Milnerton by double decker bus :lol:

I told someone about it and later this guy came back to me full of smiles and asked me how much i had on it. I did'nt know what he meant

and with all the bookies around i never bet with them),
Well, he got 4/1, I felt stupid not backing it,but i got the last laugh

I never told him that i also saw a no "7" with ICE CLIPPER (who was'nt no7)
So i looked for a 7 i liked and found BLUSHING BESS at 7/1 two races later
That was my first bet with a bookie and i made a small packet (R35 wins)
His face just dropped to the ground :lol:

It was good money at the time,40years ago

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johnnycomelately
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8 years 1 week ago

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This was also the time i started betting with the BIG 4
I played a jackpot 3 horses in every race and miscalculated
I bet R7.10 instead of R8.10
To my surprise i got paid out 90% by them

Now that i think about it,it seems like the bookies were fairer back then

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MasterOfMyFate
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Re: Favourite punting stories

7 years 11 months ago

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MasterOfMyFate wrote:

avataar wrote: Had MARINARESCO won last year's July i could have won about 180k, close but no cigar.

Ouch... i feel your pain. I was so confident going into the big day. I remember on the day he drifted from 8/1 to 20/1. Nobody gave him a chance from that draw. As they turned for home, seeing him last and that far back I thought he'd be lucky to get into a 4th or 5th. I'm still in awe at his finish. It is outstandingly rare to see a horse make that ground up in a grade 1 on a short straight. If only Grant kept him a little closer or made his move around the turn, he may have got there :dry: never seen a more unluckier loser for quite awhile but that's racing and why we love it. Anyway, he did redeem himself in the Champions Cup.

but hoping he can get his revenge this year

It's funny how these things work out. Once again drifted from 8/1 to around 18/1 and once again not many gave him a chance. And once again he produced that amazing turn of foot BUT this time he got there.

I doubt anything will surpass Marinaresco winning the VDJ for me personally.

thanks champ