Waterloo Cup Memories

[mud 2,044]

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[wirral countryman 2,110]

 

Thought somebody would of got why the 1986 Waterloo cup was special apart from it being 150 yrs anniversary, WM

Was the event run that year WM?

 

Correct !!! its the year the anti's threatened all kinds to get their own way, so it was banned from running by the police, where you there the year the antis got on the field and were battered, loved it, that knob head that plays "Jim Royal" was always at the front of all the women and rentamob, always the same every year,not a hare caught until they started blowing horns and screaming, thick bast*rds never realised either, lol's, WM

[mud 2,044]

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[greenshank1 406]

I only made a few and the last one. I was totally captivated by it. The journey through the night to get there , the crowds , the beatline getting closer and the slipper and the judge.

 

I 'll never forget it . On the last one an old irish gentleman standing by us turned as the last course finished and said " that's it lads , that's it all finished " he shook our hands and tears were running down his cheek.

[mud 2,044]

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[northern lad 2,292]

Cracking thread guys Never went myself only seen vids....great hearing the stories

[krawnden 1,036]

Funny you should start this thread WM - for the first time since it all finished I was within spitting distance of Altcar just a few weeks ago when I took my daughter for an interview at Edgehill University. While I was waiting for her I contemplated going for a wander down to the Withins and Lydiate, but in the end just pootled about in Ormskirk.

[Moorside 642]

Great read lads, sadly I never went

[Giro 2,648]

Great thread..

[DOGGINLAD 538]

I am also on that picture with mud,, who got you arrested then max?

[chris87 297]

Great thread lads cheers for sharing

[Phil Lloyd 10,736]

What a cracking thread,..one of the Hunting Life's best...

I well remember me and Dave Harcombe trying to sell Terrier Yearbooks and Lurcher Journals...

We had a flimsy plastic tent,.. with books laid out on a decorators trestle table,...

The lads were everywhere,..like fecking locusts..!

Talk about a free for all,...we was losing books, faster than we was selling them

 

In the end, we just gave up,.or should I say, gave in,..feck it I said,..lets just watch the coursing...

 

Great days,..will we ever see their like again...

[strayshot 105]

Best thread on here for ages. There's a great account of the American bitch Cashel's Evening and her adventure here, it's a really good story: http://www.greyhoundinfo.org/?page_id=844

Edited February 27, 2015 by strayshot

[nans pat 2,575]

is there hares still about the land it was run on.anybody hunt it,