This is one story I heard on how the great one got started...
1978, after many stuttering attempts the great one was facing the abyss.
The game was up, the story over.
He met a old school mate, a recently retired jockey /horse trainer who told him of a mare in his care who was a dead cert for a Bumper and whose owners were not punters , rather a syndicate of pleasure seeking race fans.
Anyways Baby Isle won at 9/1 and the wheels were back on the bike .
A few years later the great one bought a bumper winning filly off the trainer , related to a multiple winning Festival hurdle runner up.
c£23,000 cash was handed over , the price retrieved when her first foal got the famous "balls of steel " ride at the mid 90s Festival.
See I always find these stories less impressive than regular successful punters, as much as I enjoy the barney curleys etc, it is a lot less impressive lumping on big on something you know has been sorted to win a race for you than finding something yourself and having your money on. Similar to Patrick Veitch and Stuart WilliamsThis is one story I heard on how the great one got started...
1978, after many stuttering attempts the great one was facing the abyss.
The game was up, the story over.
He met a old school mate, a recently retired jockey /horse trainer who told him of a mare in his care who was a dead cert for a Bumper and whose owners were not punters , rather a syndicate of pleasure seeking race fans.
Anyways Baby Isle won at 9/1 and the wheels were back on the bike .
A few years later the great one bought a bumper winning filly off the trainer , related to a multiple winning Festival hurdle runner up.
c£23,000 cash was handed over , the price retrieved when her first foal got the famous "balls of steel " ride at the mid 90s Festival.
See I always find these stories less impressive than regular successful punters, as much as I enjoy the barney curleys etc, it is a lot less impressive lumping on big on something you know has been sorted to win a race for you than finding something yourself and having your money on. Similar to Patrick Veitch and Stuart Williams
Who have you been asking.Always been interested in the great man, he is more gangster like than most billionaires out there and I have never had a straight answer as to how he made his fortune to begin with
No doubt mate, meant I don’t find the organised betting on an inside job particularly impressive storiesPatrick Veitch is the greatest betting mind of our time.
No doubt mate, meant I don’t find the organised betting on an inside job particularly impressive stories
The Glackin report also examined the role and activities of other prominent owners, Dermot Desmond and Michael Smurfit in the JMOB purchase and subsequent sale to Telecom. No adverse findings were found against either man.
Dr. Smurfit stepped down from his role as Chairman of Telecom (the state owned telecommunications department who paid £9.4m) following the controversy.
In other news, The High Court in Dublin have decided that multi-Billionaire John Magnier wasn't fully truthful during his evidence recently in an action over a (relatively) paltry land deal.
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Judge orders John Magnier to pay millions in legal costs
John Magnier has been ordered to pay the estimated €4m plus costs of his failed 19-day legal challenge to the sale of a Tipperary estate to a rival bidder.www.rte.ie