Hittite Glory Wins At 100-1 (1975)

a 5 horse race goes to the rank outsider here you don't get 100-1 outsiders in 5 runner races these days!
i wonder if anyone remembers this horse winning?

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Sports

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• hittite
• glory
• 1975
• 100-1
• horse
• racing

[gary1961]

... count me in. I remember watching this race with some of my mates wishing we'd stuck 50p to win on it. Nowadays, you could stick a donkey off Blackpool beach in a 5-horse race and the tight-fisted bookies probably wouldn't give you 50/1.

[bates1972]

You're right the prices aint as big these days take the grand national for example you don't get 500-1 shots anymore!

[macvatu]

@cgambler864 . . "but payed the tax" means he paid tax on his stake which was 50p, rather than his winnings which turned out to be £50.50p - quite a difference there as you can see. But of course today in the UK we don't pay tax any more on our winnings.

[rartandsete]

I had a fiver on this one, 500 quid to the good. A shed load of money in those days.

[cgambler864]

@pw7300 i dont understand what you mean by "but payed the tax"..........please clarify if you can.........reminds me of my tout to my whole school that Temperence Hill would win the 1980 Belmont Stakes.......today i'd have had 1000 on him, but back then 2 bucks was my life savings.........he was chalk at 53-1 compared to you!!!!!......peace brother...

[pw7300]

i remember this me and my mates in the bookies the 1.45 at doncaster f.durr the jockey only had 50p but payed the tax . i was grinning my head off for days £ 50 for me was a lot of money then.. went straight up the town and bought a new stereo cash :) thanks for posting this video im 54 now remember it like it was yesterday

[imnothereactually]

didn't know this was a group 1 race, only the second horse to win a group 1 on the turf at 100-1, the other 1 was Sole Power yesterday

[davidtprice]

I was on Hitite glory this day Music boy was way too short to back for me so I had A £1.00 on Hitite what a night we had that night £100 was 4 weeks wages back then

[jet9491]

I saw this race at Doncaster. Music Boy was my favourite horse at the time. Trained by Snowy Wainwright at Malton ,he had won the Gimcrack at York over 6 furlongs, but was back to 5f for this race. I always thioI saw this ught he would have stayed the Guineas trip (he was by the miler Jukebox). What an occasion it would have been if he had won at Newmarket!

[jet9491]

I saw this race at Doncaster. Music Boy was my favourite horse at the time. Trained by Snowy Wainwright at Malton ,he had won the Gimcrack at York over 6 furlongs, but was back to 5f for this race. I always thiought he would have stayed the Guineas trip (he was by the miler Jukebox). What an occasion it would have been if he had won at Newmarket!