billy the punter Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Silks were not printed in the Sporting Life or Racing Post - perhaps one meeting was but never all. Under each horse there would give a decription of the silks. If you didn't know the jargon I imagine it could've been a nightmare. Drab (the colour) Frogging Cross of Lorraine Maltese Cross George Cross Crazy Quilt Yoke Seams Braces Diablos Harder than reading the form at times. Today's whippersnappers don't know how lucky they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy the punter Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... Or, remember when even betting shops didn't show every race? You'd be listening to commentary with the action described as neck and neck going to the line. You nag gets "touched off" and then you read in the paper the next day the distance was 2l. :loon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHills Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I can remember the Sporting Chronicle, that was in the days before the Racing Post and we had two daily racing papers, the Life was the other of course. I remember very well the old extel commentaries and the boardmarkers in the shops too!:lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpit Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember when every bookies shop you went into allways had a mad bastard shouting at the screens ,kind of miss that stuff now i bet on line:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... race sheets went up at 11am (opening time) prices came through race by race with possibly only 3 or 4 races with early prices and this was the 80's open counters in some shops No roulette machines! 1 TV if you were lucky in the corner 10% tax on bet or winnings !! frosted glass so no-one could see in :rollin 2 page bet slip, you kept the back slip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy the punter Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I say, we still have open counter shops in Chislehurst old bean, what, what what. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I say, we still have open counter shops in Chislehurst old bean, what, what what. :D so do we, all the shops round my way revamped with open counters etc in fact most have open counters now dont they Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowgli77 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember having to decide if to pay tax on your bet or risk paying it on your winnings, always paid my 9p in the £1 or whatever it was. :ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember having to decide if to pay tax on your bet or risk paying it on your winnings' date=' always paid my 9p in the £1 or whatever it was. :ok[/quote'] sods law it worked the other way, tax was changed from 10% to 9% and lower i think I used to actually have a 90p bet sometimes so i could keep my bets to a £1 stake if you know what i mean ! imagine now winning a grand and having to give back 100 - criminal ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELCAKER Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember when the bookies had 1 or maybe 2 tellys in them, with constantly changing screens for the prices - and that was the upmarket ones! Some will also recall prices being changed manually on big blackboards. Those were the days :-) Thank god they've gone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... SIS screens were like teletext also plus teletext was used in a few shops to display results etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtw1 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember when every bookies shop you went into allways had a mad bastard shouting at the screens ' date='kind of miss that stuff now i bet on line:)[/quote'] You should have seen them shouting at the Extel speakers !! , now that was funny ...............................................................oooops........ it was me :$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy the punter Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... so do we, all the shops round my way revamped with open counters etc in fact most have open counters now dont they I suppose it depends on the area. Anywhere else I've been always have the plastic up. So many robberies and abuse these days so I don't blame them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy the punter Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... sods law it worked the other way, tax was changed from 10% to 9% and lower i think I used to actually have a 90p bet sometimes so i could keep my bets to a £1 stake if you know what i mean ! Yeah I used to have all sorts of odd stakes. £2.25 EW's etc. :lol I remember when it changed to 9%, 1995? 96? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedthewolf Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember when for writing our bets out we had a few pens dotted about the shop attached to (at best chain but usually a bit of string) the boards that held the newspapers or to the top of the betting slip counters. You rush from the pub run in to get your bet on in time grab the piece of string and half the time there would be no fecking pen at the end of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedthewolf Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember we had the ITV seven. The updated version is the scoop six on channel 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember we had the ITV seven. The updated version is the scoop six on channel 4. my 1st bet, used to layout 10p from the age of seven every saturday :ok smoking in shops was another thing of the past, the ash trays used to be overflowing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kithanga Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Re: Remember When..... This thread takes me back! Remember the board markers that they used to employ to mark up the prices? Red for the fav, blue for the other runners. In our local independent bookies all you had to do was keep the young girl chatting and she'd miss some of the market moves so you could get the higher price. It was a much better atmosphere all round in those days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowgli77 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I know the staff at my bookies so they used to give me best prices just as they changed, if it went from 10's to 8's I'd put 10's on the slip and it would get accepted. :tongue2 When I was in the police we arrested a bloke that turned out to be the manageress's ex hubby, he got CS gassed and locked up for being a prick, she hates him and said we should have kicked fcuk out of him. :lol I was also given the number of a woman that worked there that wanted to go out "for a drink" with me, I was 25, she was 35 but I'd just started seeing someone so declined. A shame really cos she was well tidy and had a 16 yr old daughter too and that could have worked out well, if you know what I mean. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Re: Remember When..... bbc used to show racing as part of their main saturday afternoon sports programme "Grandstand" John MCririck used to work for World of Sport back in the early 80's on their racing coverage, also i had no idea he was 70! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingertipster Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Re: Remember When..... bbc used to show racing as part of their main saturday afternoon sports programme "Grandstand" John MCririck used to work for World of Sport back in the early 80's on their racing coverage, also i had no idea he was 70! AAAAAArrrrrrrrrr. When I were a laaad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palaceman Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... When betting shops first opened - yes, there once was a time when they didn't exist - the legislation was only forced through on the basis that they must not be too "comfortable" a place for people to remain for long periods. Hence toilets were not allowed. And that remained the case for some years. I remember, as a very little boy, being out with my aunt, who wanted to try a betting shop for the first time when they had only just started (she had previously only bet on course, or my uncle would put it on over the phone). I accompanied her inside, and recall the conversation to this day. She went up to the counter and asked what she had to do. The man gave her a betting slip and said "You write the name here". My aunt took the betting slip away and wrote on it and returned it to the man. "But you've written your own name on it," said the man "I thought that's what you told me to do," replied my aunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember the days when I used to get home from work and ring up the Racings Results Service on the phone.......... And if you could wait they had a full Racing Round Up at 6.45 on Radio 2 probably at that time Then teletext came in.................:loon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I might be imagining this.......... In the olden days the betting shops used to pin up the papers on the wall, which they still do of course !..........but I seem to remember that one of the papers was the Licensed Victualler's Trade Paper which covered racing in depth ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy the punter Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... Does anyone remember the orange Greyform greyhound cards on the walls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHills Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... Does anyone remember the orange Greyform greyhound cards on the walls? I pinched one once when my dog first ran in a BAGS race at Brough Park:lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in The Lakes Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... Alright I admit we are about 50 years behind the times in The Lakes- until LAST year my bookie hand wrote the results on a board ! Colour TV is due here next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowles10 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... I remember the days when I used to get home from work and ring up the Racings Results Service on the phone.......... And if you could wait they had a full Racing Round Up at 6.45 on Radio 2 probably at that time Then teletext came in.................:loon yep Teletext was a godsend, as waiting for that result t come up from the odds page, with the words 1st, 2nd or 3rd. When PHOTO came up it was a nightmare I used to ring the racing lines all the time when they were cheap to listen to commentaries etc and the results round up bloody hell how things have changed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtw1 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... And if you could wait they had a full Racing Round Up at 6.45 on Radio 2 probably at that time and when the evening meetings were on and the bookies shut they used to have a results service at 10:00 at night just after the news i think . So if you missed that you had to wait until the next day to find out how you'd got on .....:eek These youngsters today don't know the half of it , and probably don't want too either :rollin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Re: Remember When..... The video recorder was another huge step forward.......... I used to set the video to record the afternoon racing, put my bets on at lunchtime at work, get home and watch the racing 'as live' ! Course.........if you had a Yankee and the first one came up, forget about watching 'as live'...........fast forward button ! :D Another thing that's changed massively is availability of 'form'. In the old days the Life and Post only gave details of a horses last 3 runs. No 'lifetime' form to look at ! And you couldn't study tomorrows races the night before - you had no form until you bought the paper on the day of the race. The old 'Weekender' used to publish some form for the big Saturday races and it was published on a Thursday - that was your only chance to study in advance..............:loon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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