A Bloke in the Bookies said to me...

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That a coup was going down. He told me – with a total straight face – to look out for MICK DUNDEE’s next race (no clues as to when this might be). The idea is that a lady jockey would be declared as his jockey, but two hours before the off, Paul Carberry would come in for the ride. Meanwhile, all us shrewdies in the know would help ourselves to the early morning prices and laugh all the way to the bank as the beast sluices up, head in chest.

So this bloke I had never met before (he introduced himself as Peter and he is a London cabbie!) is parting with all this info to a complete stranger, happy to do wile away an hour doing his £1ew mug punts at Wolverhampton and Dundalk. Sounds like utter bullshit, of course, but are these stories common enough to be shared? I realise many of you proper shrewdies don’t go near a bookies these days, but do any of you have similar tales of bullshit masquerading as ‘inside information’, heard within the confines of a bookies?
 
Unlikely that Carberry will be up on the John Ryan-trained 3yo. He may however get the ride on the Paul Nolan-trained Dick Dundee who's entered at Navan this weekend on the back of two falls last month.

Good luck if you get involved Len.
 
A 3yo who has run purely on the flat so far. Paul Carberry ?

Maybe it's going for a bumper sometime, doesn't hold any entries at all at the moment.
 
A guy in the bookies once said to me..

"Benson & Hedges - Pure Gold?... Are they furrrrrrrrk, are they furrrk, son"

Yes, theres some real pearls of wisdom to be picked up in those places.
 
I was actually standing next to a mate, who called the fallen horse at the last - who he had two quid on - a 'C'. He was slightly less angry when the horse was humanely destroyed after the fall.
 
When I was a student I marked the board in the local small-time bookie's.

One lovely old gent came up to me shortly after I started and said, "You're the best marker we've ever had in here, son. Stick at it, you could go places!"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry but thanked him for his very kind remark.
 
Steady fonz, the horse in Len's post is called Mick Dundee, the horse that just won is called Dick Dundee.
 
fonz said:
Get me this blokes number Len!!!
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I'm taking this one. A 4/1 winner given freely on the board - I feel "as one" now.

The bloke who gave me the info didn't know his arse from his elbow and had bad hand writing. He could easily have meant 'Dick Dundee'.
 
Len Madeiros said:
I'm taking this one. A 4/1 winner given freely on the board - I feel "as one" now.

The bloke who gave me the info didn't know his arse from his elbow and had bad hand writing. He could easily have meant 'Dick Dundee'.
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Well done anyway mate and thanks for sharing.
reminds me of the time a lad I used to work with who was a bit of a down and out and totally hopeless gambler told me in august 2011 the 2 horses that were going to win next years Oaks and Derby
Camelot and Was?? Yeah right whatever mate............
 
Len Madeiros said:
That a coup was going down. He told me – with a total straight face – to look out for MICK DUNDEE’s next race (no clues as to when this might be). The idea is that a lady jockey would be declared as his jockey, but two hours before the off, Paul Carberry would come in for the ride. Meanwhile, all us shrewdies in the know would help ourselves to the early morning prices and laugh all the way to the bank as the beast sluices up, head in chest.

So this bloke I had never met before (he introduced himself as Peter and he is a London cabbie!) is parting with all this info to a complete stranger, happy to do wile away an hour doing his £1ew mug punts at Wolverhampton and Dundalk. Sounds like utter bullshit, of course, but are these stories common enough to be shared? I realise many of you proper shrewdies don’t go near a bookies these days, but do any of you have similar tales of bullshit masquerading as ‘inside information’, heard within the confines of a bookies?
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Runs 2.05 LIngfield
 
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