Celticman

Ove certainly gave my Wimbledon Dons fits!

Now 102 !!!

Perhaps speedway will return to Canada one day. The track is still there in Welland

Good to know my memory is still working.

I live in Toronto and to the best of my knowledge there is no speedway racing in Ontario anymore. There was racing in Welland down in the Niagara peninsula until recently. I am not sure about the rest of Canada.

Sorry Norbold but you will need to be more specific. Which day, time, forum, thread and thread page

Fools Gold?

On a real longshot I checked youtube to see if there was a clip of him racing. No luck. Too bad as there are clips of boxing going back before then

Seems odd to think that he would be 109 years old now....yet still remembered with reverence

I keep doing that !!! In my defense, he rode for the Dons

No relation

Nevertheless, inquiring minds need to know.

They got lucky

Wimbledon won 7 out of 8 championships from 1954 to 1961. Peter was a key rider in many of those, always a top three rider on the great Dons teams. the other top Dons at different times with Peter were Ronnie Moore, Don How and Barry Briggs. Peter was key to those champion teams that were so dominant in a way that has never been equaled. He often partnered with Cyril Maidment and sometimes Bob Andrews or Gerald Jackson. In those days Cyril Brine always rode with Ronnie Moore. Peter was truly fast out of the gate but did not have Don How's aggression coming from behind. I remember when they had the second back marker gate ten yards back. Peter of course started from the back and more than once he rocketed away and was leading coming out of the first turn.

Clearly, given these advantages for wrong handed riders they should, in all fairness, be obliged to ride in the opposite direction