Two greyhound race jackets.
£80 - £120
Two greyhound race jackets, Jacket 1, Glin Bridge, Ladbroke Golden Jacket 1976, Harringey, 28th February 1976,
this race was shown on ITV World of Sport, Glin Bridge won 33 wins from 49 open races, and was 2nd in 10, Archie Newhouse, the former greyhound racing editor of the Sporting Life and famed for his weekly Wednesday column, in ‘My Greyhound World’ - declared: “Glin Bridge was the hottest property in greyhound racing in 1976.”, in February, 1976, "Glin Bridge thrilled millions of armchair viewers on ITV’s ‘World of Sport’ when landing the final of the Ladbroke Golden Jacket (660 metres) in show-stopping style". This is the winners jacket for that race. The jacket is in gold lame with a circular velvet roundel to each side with the Ladbroke logo and other literals embroidered in metal threads. It measure 22in. long including the front straps; Jacket 2, Yankees Shadow, The Regency, Brighton and Hove 1986, The Regency is a category one greyhound race run at this track since 1948, Yankees Shadow was trained by George Curtis, the jacket measure 22in. including the front straps and is in blue velvet with gilt metal edging and gold tassels and yellow lettering, there is a small fingernail sized hole to the centre of jacket, the blue velvet jacket inscribed THE JOHN POWER SHOW DOWN, WEMBLEY 1985, gold fringe, 48 by 46cm., (2).