Coursing 2012/2013 - The Road to Powerstown

A local dentist cc @Fat_Pox had a leg in the Derby runner up. Chinned at 1/3.

He’d been talking about him since last September so will be disappointed.

I’d say he had serious wedge put down on it. I’m sure he covered it ew.

The best gambler I’ve ever met. His Ms World gamble was unreal.

Haven’t met him since pre-covid.

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Tell us about that one?

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He tells this one lovely…

This fella had half the parish told about Sublimity for the 2007 Champion Hurdle at 100/1. He went off 16’s.

The Ms. Universe bet was just astonishing stuff altogether.

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The Dentist wouldn’t be your regular gambler. He is a single man, must be in his late 50s now. Good job and well set. He sets aside a certain amount of money for gambling each each year. Wouldn’t back every day. Just look for value and follow that

Likes his pints as well and is known to do emergency dental surgery in the pub. He had some Cheltenham winner around 08 at massive odds. Told everyone months in advance.

Anyways this must’ve have been 09/10 and the future Mrs Pox was on one of her fledgling visits to West Tipp. We were out for a few drinks local and the Dentist was at the counter. He took a shine to her anyway and we were chatting away. I asked him had he any betting fancies and he starts off about Ms World.

I think it was about to take place in a few weeks. Anyways he says he has Ms Venezuela backed at 33/1. Had hundreds on it on different online accounts. I started laughing and asked what was his reasoning. He said that a Hispanic winner was well overdue. All other main nationalities/ethnic groups such as Causasian/Asian/black/american… had won in recent times. The Hispanics were due one.

Then he said he started ruling out certain hispanic nations due to the age of their candidate. He had some theory that you needed to be between 19-21 to win it.

He finally had a shortlist of 3/4. He then plumped on Ms Venezuela as she was a medical student and had done some humatitarian work that would appeal to the judges. They didn’t want some airhead. He finished off his reasoning by then telling us he looked her up online and “she was a fine thing”.

Sure enough two weeks later Ms Venezuela romps home. Mrs Pox still thinks he is some higher functioning genuis trapped in West Tipp like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting.

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Quality :smile:

That’s tremendous.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

2011 - Ivian Sarcos, aged 22.

Ah I don’t remember the exact details of how he went about sizing up her form. However it took him about 20mins to articulate it all. You get the gist of it…

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It was definitely Ms Universe over Ms World. And I’m going to say it was around 2008 as opposed to to 2010/2011.

you could be right. They won it in 2008 and 2009.

2008 Dayana Mendoza

2009 Stefania Fernandez Krupij

I need to know more

Ms Universe is a far more prestigious competition than Ms World.

Well the Universe is bigger than the World…

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Serious step up in class from the World stage to Universal level.

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It involved brandy, a few tissues and some basic dental tools he had in the boot of his car.

The father of a poster here was the patient one time. He stood in as the assistant/dental nurse on another occasion.

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Class. Sounds safe :joy: