15 Mar 2020 10:30:53
Yes I am back on here after my "triumphant" Cheltenham stint on the racing page, I am extremely proud of the fact we made a profit last 3 years, although it was more difficult this year until very last race on final day of the festival.
If anyone wants their lotto numbers please just ask lol.
15 Mar 2020 11:18:10
Well done Tim. I only bet on three horses and they came nowhere. That was my first and possibly last bets on the horses.
15 Mar 2020 15:55:46
I'm not a gambler in general apart from the very odd £3 accumulator on 5 teams, which I do about twice a season. My experience of betting on horses is even less. As a child I would have a 50p bet on the Grand National courtesy of my dad and that was it.
However, back in 1989 I was living in London. I got the bus to work every morning and I always bought a newspaper for the journey. Doing what most blokes do, I read it from back to front. Football was more important than the front page to me! After reading the back page I flicked it open and accidentally missed a couple of pages and went to the horse racing section. For some reason a horse caught my eye, it was called Henry Mann. I saw that the jockey was a guy called A Mulholland and realised that this was the same guy I had gone to primary school with many years before. I knew he had gone off to be a jockey in England when we were about 15 or 16 but had never kept in contact with him or followed up to see how he was doing. Anyway, I told a guy I worked with about this coincidence. He was a punter but said the horse had no chance however it might be worth a token punt because of the coincidence. We put a fiver each on it, he went to the bookies at lunchtime to do it. Later that afternoon he phoned the bookies to find out the result of the race. The bookie told him the winner was Henry Mann. The price? 33-1. What a day we had. It never tempted me to keep betting though lol HH.
15 Mar 2020 16:04:56
I told a lie, his price was 25-1. Out of curiosity I just went and checked him out lol HH.
15 Mar 2020 17:34:44
Henry Mann won at Cheltenham the following year at 20/ 1 and your friend was the jockey also.
16 Mar 2020 11:28:38
Yes BB, I saw that. His race name was usually A J Mulholland but we knew him as Tony, the A was for Anthony. HH.