Pretty girls at Epsom...but any racehorses?

[The Scientist]

As a bookmaker the chap next to me remarked. How do they bet if they have not seen the horse?

I wondered that. Some of my largest bets we from inebriated racegoers seeminly unable to distinguish between the jockey and the horse. 

"I'm backing Dettori £100 win but you have not priced the horse up."

"Dettori is a jockey...which horse is he riding?"

"Oh, I thought it was a horse. "

I took his money.

When I turned to being a punter it seemed simplier, easier, less risky and more profitable than being a bookmaker. So it proved.

I took my bookmaker preperation into punting.

Basically, I never took a bet on a horse I had not seen personally or had reported to me by my paddock watcher. This is far easier as a punter than when you are a bookmaker.

The problems for punters are ...those girls are so pretty, the fish and chips scrumptoius and the beer is smashing. Horses? What horses?

Me? Watching TV...if I get 30 seconds looking at one horse I find 50p

Occasionally in betting shops late at night you can get 10 minutes.

So a £10 bet is called for.

£1 for every minute you have seen your horse is my best tip for a budding punter.

I bet £600 on Enke ew in the St Leger. I had watched him live, on video and at the course for 600 hours. How else could I be that confident in betting a 66-1 chance v an unbeaten favourite unless I had replayed every stride the horse had ever taken a dozen times...checked and rechecked my maths?

On ITV at Epsom....line up your 10p if you are lucky. Still the girls are lovely

 

 

 

[MCLARKE]

600 hours ? There must be better ways to spend your time !