Diamond Geezer
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Cheltenham Bookies Fail The Under-age Test
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edgt
Senior Jockey
To be fair, how can you encourage young people to go racing if they did not fail the test?
A PP shop locally has a sign on the door that under 18s are NOT Welcome.
I first entered my local bookie age 9 , otherwise I would be a Downtown Abbey fan, not an Easby Abbey fan.
A PP shop locally has a sign on the door that under 18s are NOT Welcome.
I first entered my local bookie age 9 , otherwise I would be a Downtown Abbey fan, not an Easby Abbey fan.
Tanlic
Senior Jockey
We had a bookmakers right next to where we caught the bus to go to School.......It was a very old building no longer there actually had a ring on the wall outside for tying your horse too.....I kid you not.
What age I was I don't know but I imagine I would be 12 to 14 the first time I stuck my head round the door.......turned out it belonged to the father of a guy who was to become my best friend.
All I remember was it was dark and some old guy was writing prices up on a board with chalk. We had a bookie who stood on the street in our estate who took bets for him so there was no need to go to a bookies unless you won and then you went to the back door of the bookies house to collect not his shop.
1st horse I remember the old guys talking about was Nicholas Silver which was the big tip round our way and them all sitting round a fire outside drunk as skunks.
Few years later same guys were on Grey of Fallodon for the Czes and I was hooked.
Actually betting in a shop came a lot later for me I was probably 15 or 16 years old but still illegal I think 18 was the age back then too
The shop still stands amazingly, but only just and it has a new occupant -
What age I was I don't know but I imagine I would be 12 to 14 the first time I stuck my head round the door.......turned out it belonged to the father of a guy who was to become my best friend.
All I remember was it was dark and some old guy was writing prices up on a board with chalk. We had a bookie who stood on the street in our estate who took bets for him so there was no need to go to a bookies unless you won and then you went to the back door of the bookies house to collect not his shop.
1st horse I remember the old guys talking about was Nicholas Silver which was the big tip round our way and them all sitting round a fire outside drunk as skunks.
Few years later same guys were on Grey of Fallodon for the Czes and I was hooked.
Actually betting in a shop came a lot later for me I was probably 15 or 16 years old but still illegal I think 18 was the age back then too
The shop still stands amazingly, but only just and it has a new occupant -
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