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  1. Reebok

    Reebok YTS Mod
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    How about this King George line up .... I don't remember the race specifically, but do recall quite a few of the field.
    King George card from 60's.PNG
     
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    Bit of a shock winner Reebs. I saw him get beaten out of sight a month earlier at Epsom, by Slip Anchor. We backed Slip Anchor and were laughing all the way up the straight
     
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    I think Grendel might have backed the winner ante post? <whistle>
     
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    I thought it was won by Oh So Sharp - no?
     
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    Now, now Oddy ... :)
     
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    I checked ... it was Petoski ... my bad as they say :)
     
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    Surprise winner or not, that was a field full of class animals :)

    I just watched Slip Anchor's Derby win again, I'd forgotten just how destructive Cauthen's ride was - got to have the right horse of course, but what a win :)
     
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    I noticed on wiki Petoski on his day was very good but ran a few stinkers as well. He ran in the Dancing Brave win the next year as well.
    The 86 King George is one of my early racing memories, i was at my Grans and we used to have a bacon butty, cup of tea and biscuits and settle down for ch4 racing was a cracking summers day, we always had a £1 double and i told her and my dad Dancing Brave definitely beats Shahrastani.
    The only races i remember before that was the Teenoso derby and Sharastani derby watching them at my Grans caravan.
     
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    Never mind the horses, look down that list of jockeys. That was a real golden era of pilots!
     
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    Definitely a thread for the oldies as the title suggests, i've only heard of 4 of the jockeys on the list
     
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    I am worried as to which one of Piggott, Swinburn, Eddery, Carson or Cauthen that you have not heard of. Oh and Yves is mightily offended.
     
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    The first four I've heard of but that's it
     
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    OMG you have never heard of Steve Cauthen? Up there with the Shoe as possibly the best American jockey we have ever seen.
     
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    Unfortunately i've never heard of him. Also don't know what this Shoe reference is you've just made. In my defence i've only been watching horse racing for around 10 years and i don't actually think i could name one single current American jockey to be honest
     
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    I noticed Philip Robinson's name among the jockeys too. Gave me one of my happiest racing memories in 1993. I wanted to buy a new coat from Next but only had 40 quid and the coat cost 120. So I stuck 30 of my 40 quid on Bob's Return in the Leger and he romped home. I even found the replay on YouTube. BTW check out the sponsor of the race - Coalite <yikes>

     
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    google Willie Shoemaker
     
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    Re that 1993 clip - did anyone else spot the mistake in the graphic at the start ...... put the distance as 1m2f 132yds - it had me scrambling to check that! Naughty C4 if that's who the broadcaster was :)
     
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    It says 1m 6f 132y.
     
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    Not on the graphic shown just after the gates opened .....
    wrong distance st leger.PNG
     
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