A walk down Memory Lane for us &quot;toppies&quot; :)

Titch
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A walk down Memory Lane for us "toppies" :)

9 years 11 months ago

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Give everything but up!

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naresh
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9 years 11 months ago

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I might be wrong but if they built the Polytrack in 1986, they would have still have enough space for 20 horses on the turf. Is this because there was no underneath bridge back then therefore it looks wider ?

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9 years 11 months ago

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GT and Bartie....... Every single Friday i would leave school, go into JHB. Stop at Xaviers......get the "graft" go to rooms at lovely street, convince someone to put bets on and then off to Solly Kramers to work....

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9 years 11 months ago

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Was that Sangster colours in 5th?

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9 years 11 months ago

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Titch, that was just the other day......I was in the army in Kimberley and watched it with big Frank R.

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9 years 11 months ago

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Bob Brogan wrote: Was that Sangster colours in 5th?

yes herman brown senior trained for him back in the day

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9 years 11 months ago

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Bob Brogan wrote: Was that Sangster colours in 5th?

yes herman brown senior trained for him back in the day

Turncoat

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9 years 11 months ago

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easy wrote: GT and Bartie....... Every single Friday i would leave school, go into JHB. Stop at Xaviers......get the "graft" go to rooms at lovely street, convince someone to put bets on and then off to Solly Kramers to work....

owner of solly kramers was a family friend. small world.

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9 years 11 months ago

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easy wrote: GT and Bartie....... Every single Friday i would leave school, go into JHB. Stop at Xaviers......get the "graft" go to rooms at lovely street, convince someone to put bets on and then off to Solly Kramers to work....

Easy,are you sure you never went to the sweet shop when you left school and then went to JHB?

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9 years 11 months ago

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Wonderful stuff Titch thanks and good to hear the name of Gerald Turner again if not mistaken Phantom Earl ?

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savasp
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9 years 11 months ago

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Titch that was great to watch again,and naresh I think the bridge was there before,as my father had a shop in the bus terminus and I can remember as a kid one of my dads friends was a bus driver, and took a short cut back to the terminus after his round, and hit the top of the bridge, and that was about 1970.

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easy
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9 years 11 months ago

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I worked with Joe Toweel at Solly Kramers Orange Grove and then Pankhurst.....

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easy wrote: GT and Bartie....... Every single Friday i would leave school, go into JHB. Stop at Xaviers......get the "graft" go to rooms at lovely street, convince someone to put bets on and then off to Solly Kramers to work....

owner of solly kramers was a family friend. small world.

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