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READERS’ LETTERS

We are delighted to be receiving your letters for publication so please keep them coming. You can post them to us to at Readers’ Letters, Racing Ahead, Tuition House, St George’s Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU, or by email to [email protected]

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I SAW the request for ‘nuggets of nostalgia’ and it triggered off some of my own memories which I offer for your interest.
My father put my first bet on. 2/6d on Babur in the 1957 Lincoln Handicap. Eddie Hide rode it to win at 25/1. I was hooked on betting from the age of 12!
By the time the 1960s arrived postal tipsters and sellers of ‘wi...

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