I'm very lucky to have met or been put into contact with some of the amazing people I have in the racing game. I haven't enjoyed the company of all the people I correspond with. The gentleman that sent me these stories falls into that category. He contacted me after reading my latest Racing And Devon Diary - he said he'd try and cheer me up with some stories. I didn't really need cheering up, but I certainly enjoyed these, I hope you do too. They go like this...
'One day at Ascot I got in conversation with John Gough in the old Grandstand tea bar up the flight of stairs where all the bookies and faces congregated. He wasn’t long back from Australia we talked about losing runs and he said if you haven’t done at least two betting banks in you can’t call yourself a pro gambler!'
'The second one occurred at Sandown, Johnny Lights backed a hurdler of Oliver Sherwood’s can’t remember its name but I know the winner as I backed it, Silver Wedge Lights had fortunes on his fancy to start at bottle-on and as I say it got beat. He was standing behind me and his mate said to him, 'What are we going to do now?' Johnny just replied, 'START AGAIN'. A footnote to that story I was using Bob Rothman's tissue he got from Angus Hill and Roy Hawkins they had Silver Wedge in at 5-2 I managed to get 4-1 and returned 7-2 because of the weight of money for the fav, thanks to Lights'.
'The third is a football story. Years ago I couldn’t get the Racing Post so I asked my mate if I could read his newspaper the Daily Star, yes don’t laugh. In mitigations, Tony Bloom used to write a football column in it and as I had heard about Tony I gave it a read this particular week. He was writing about the champions league and he was very strong on AC Milan who were 7-1 so I had £200 on them. Fast forward to May and they were 3-0 up at half time and I’m saying to my wife 'Book a holiday I’ve won a nice few quid here. Second half I was getting lower and lower in the chair every time Liverpool scored to complete the greatest comeback In the Champions league final. No she didn’t book the holiday, to be fair he was spot on with his assessment and I always read his column after that.'
Thanks very for much for them, they did make me chuckle. Anyone that feels like getting in touch please do, correspondence is always welcome, well almost always!
Simon Nott
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