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Way too many beers at the HP. Used to go there for comedy nights as well
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My favourites were Hondo Grattan, koala king and popular alm. Great days but they are long gone.
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Gone , but not forgotten by trotting lovers , Hey PL , I use to walk out of HP past that pub when I was too young to drink Confused then years later when I was old enough I had to get up at 3-30am to start at 4 am so couldn't risk it at that late hour LOL I went with my dad in those early years , it was magic , my favourite race caller drank there all the time , his name was Geof Mahoney , the on course broadcaster for the AJC and STC , brilliant caller , accurate , precise , with a voice like velvet , called all the fights too , I think the writer Frank Harding drank there too .
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I started listening to the trots on car radio , driving from Newtown to Dorrigo, when OH and I first became a number.
There was a great race where a filly broke a track record and I was willing her on all the way,,,,,round about Taree. LOL  Now cant even recall her name.
I loved Christian Cullen.  Blakes A Fake.   And the other one,,came from out Bathurst way,,,,,bloody hell my mind is shot,,,,help ,,,
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Was it Hondo Grattan  ? 
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No Carioca,,,  later times , sort of, raced around Blacks A Fake or a bit earlier.  Won some good races.
On the tip of my tongue but wont come out of the grey matter,,,Confused
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And Smoken Up.
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Anyone remember when an intruder into the Albion Park calling box tried to strangle David Fowler mid-race? Would have been 20 years ago. 
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Was it Norm's Daughter?
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I remember seeing Rip Van Winkle win a race at HP by near on half a lap as a youngster. Always stayed with me 

Probably was no where near that much - amazing how the memory plays tricks. Just watched the famous Mount Eden Miracke Mike win.again. I thought he lost a lot more ground at the start than he actually did . 

80 or 90 yards over a mile was nothing for a horse like that 😂
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https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=mount%20eden%20pacer&tbm=&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d1b332eb,vid:r8QBn0RYCkY,st:0
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I know the Miracle Mile in the modern era is raced on a bigger track than Harold Park but back in the 1960s & 1970s a horse could win the race by breaking 2 minutes, but today a winner needs to break 1 minute and 50 seconds. 
I doubt any of Lucky Cteed, Mount Eden, Hondo Grattan or Paleface Adios etc were any inferior to today's best pacers, but their winning times in the Miracle Mile were pedestrian in comparison.
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Mount eden was a good galloper 😂


Edited by Gay3 - 05 Oct 2023 at 9:04pm
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Smooth Satin !  Yes ! Thanks.  But I remember Norms Daughter too.
Thank You both.
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Did any of you see some of the photos of the OTT SBs that showed at Menangle and Hawkesbury shows ?   Some stunners there.
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I got bitten by the racing bug early. In the late 60's, early 70's (I was almost a teenager), my mum worked for a friend at the local TAB in Central West NSW. Friday nights she was at work and my old man and I used to watch the trots at Harold Park on TV. From memory the ABC used to show the legs of the daily double live and at the end of the night show a replay of each race.

I was allowed to have a 25c daily double and sometimes a 50c.

Paleface Adios, Hondo Grattan and Pure Steel were my favourites.

After my mum finished (manually) collating all the tickets, locking up the TAB and getting home we were about half way through the replays. She knew the name of every winner!

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Fast forward a "few" years and I was going to uni in Sydney. Myself and 3 mates shared a terrace house in - you guessed it - Glebe. A 10 min walk to Wentworth Park and a short, student concession bus ride to Harold Park.

The only time I've ever been to Gloucester Park in WA my wife and I skydived in lol. There was an Italian Festival on there and we were in a 4-man skydive demo team sponsored by one of the local radio stations 6PR. Our chief instructor's brother was the CEO of the station and they bought us canopies with a big "6PR" on them, jumpsuits, trailing flags, flares - and paid us too!!

I remember we were floating over the WACA and a Sheffield Shield match was on and when you looked down you could see the game had stopped and all the players were looking up.
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