anyone get on the gamble in Stratford. One of Willie Burkes horses, King Keano. Backed on from 50s to 11/8 won on the line by a short head. Didnt get on it myself after ignoring a few phone calls from my old fella who said they were banging on about the gamble on ATR all day
Great touch. The other horse traded at 1.2 in the photo at one stage.
They were smashing into him all day, i’d say whoever hoovered up all the early prices of 16’s, 14’s, 12’s will have some night tonight. I got on at 4’s myself, he went off at 11/8. They landed a lovely touch with him, though he only won after a photo-finish mind…
He won though. That’s all that matters!
Hold on now… He opened up at 50’s? 
They probably wouldn’t have got much on @ 50’s and any few quid at 50’s on the opening price would have seen him knocked in to at least 20’s in minutes.
Just looked at odds checker there and the biggest opening price I can see is 18’s
Well done whoever profited from this coup! Anyone know who laid the 50s early doors?
I thought he opened at 16’s myself…
Im only going off what my old lad told me. He backed it at 10s or something. Think the horse had only had one run before. A serious touch in fairness.
Nearly finished reading Veitch’s book. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. Certainly puts to bed any notions you might have that it’s easy make a comfortable living from gambling. The work the guy puts in is huge plus he has a very large team around him.
He has commitment issues though, Dunph. The man has never been able to settle down, he has had a miserable life going through a string of hot women while making tens of millions of pounds as a pro gambler. That bird pictured in the helicopter is cracking. It’s all very sad.
For a small, smarmy, smug little git he’s been through a fair string of beauties though such as Emma Spencer, page three models etc. He’s not shy about blowing his own trumpet in the book either.
You’d have to be cocky to do that for a living. Dropped out of Oxford aswell, fancies himself alright but he’s got the birds and the bucks to back it up in fairness.
Cambridge.
The one thing with the book is that he didn’t give away all that much about his systems for picking winners. The main thing he presented i suppose was the life of a professional gambler. I was surprised to learn that most of his selections were his own, and weren’t tips or accompanied by information from connections. In this regard, how would he know if a horse was off?
Are there any pro gamblers who are faithful?
Harry The Dog?
I was in the company of a bookmaker who was standing in Listowel last week. He was saying that a fair share of the bookies on the courses are only treading water at the moment and a few of them living on borrowed time/cash.
They had a fairly rough week of it in Listowel and there were plenty of them gone home and not standing on Saturday.
The on-course game is finished Runt. It’s dead only to wash it. It all revolves around Galway, Punchestown and the Leopardstown NH meetings now.
SS**, how much would an on-course bookie turnover on an average day/evening meet in the likes of limerick or Ballinrobe etc