I was first introduced to horse racing by my grand father,he use to be a bookies runner and told me endless story’s of his time as a bookies runner. I had to place his bets as he was to old to travel and at the time there was only bookmakers shops to place a legal bet, there was no television at the shops just a person that use to write the prices on a large board as the audio streams came through to the shop.
I was a fruit machine freak and regularly use to blow a weeks wages in a few hours until one day a work colleague asked why not try betting on horse racing.
My first bet was a 5p Flag a bet make from four selections. The first three horse won and thought to myself this game is easy. I was hooked and I spent many hours looking though form books.
Now this is were the problems lies every night I would study for the following day racing. The day of the racing I would go into the local bookies to place the bets in my lunch breaks but!
Because there was no racing during my lunch breaks I spent all my betting money on the FRUIT MACHINES this was my personal demon. What made it worst was finding out that the bets I had laid out the previous night won,I was not a happy chappie.
Thank Goodness for the Internet.
I no longer needed to go into the Bookies.
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