In 1955, Reg Gill, milkman and part-time illegal bookie, took his 12-year-old son Roy to the spring meeting at Epsom Downs.
It was an outing that started a life-long passion for racing and set Roy on a mission to visit every racecourse in Britain and Ireland. The journey that began a half-century ago at Epsom ended at Tralee in 1992.
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