Was there ever such a thing as...

[Fools Motto]

an indoor derby bank possibly at either HOYS or Olympia (or similar?)
I was talking to a friend about Hickstead, saying I'd love to go to see the Derby bank, but also saying the closest I've been to international SJ is that at Olympia, where there is no such thing as a bank.... then my brain cells are reminding me, that perhaps there was??
So, was there? Or have I been dreaming it?

 

[Foxhunter49]

You aren't dreaming - there was a bank in one of the classes at HOYS and I have a feeling that there was a fatality causing it to be withdrawn from the class.

 

[Fools Motto]

You aren't dreaming - there was a bank in one of the classes at HOYS and I have a feeling that there was a fatality causing it to be withdrawn from the class.

How long ago would that have been then?

 

[Spring Feather]

How long ago would that have been then?

From memory it was around the late 80s/early 90s

 

[Fools Motto]

Thankyou, I am not mad or been living in a dream like state, and am glad my brain remembers something!!

I take it from the possible fatality (?) that the indoor bank idea didn't escalate into todays indoor SJ circuits?

 

[fburton]

Yes, I remember a horrible accident with a broken horse. Sir Arkay?