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BF employees are not allowed to bet and will be asked to resign if they are caught .. fact !<br>;)
From what I know, Dave Jay is correct. It was an issue a couple of years ago – certain well-known punters were convinced that the Betfair phone operators were following them in as soon as they had a bet – but they hired a compliance officer to keep everyone in line and security is probably as tight now as it is ever likely to get. There might be scope for text messages before a race is off if someone is that keen to risk a well-paid job, but I can’t believe it would be a realistic concern for anyone betting in-running.
Interesting post Mr Frisk
Me have an inkling it may still be going on, maybe i’m being paranoid ( right word?) but proving it is impossible, so this customer has took his business elsewhere for the foreseeable future
(Edited by empty wallet at 3:38 am on Dec. 29, 2006)
All these type of jobs normally include some phase as ‘keen knowledge of racing’ so the jobs are likely to attrack punters rather than non punters. <br>The founder of course was a proffesional punter himself. <br>Over the recent Christmas period I have found a lot of liquidity on the exchange but Im backing rather than laying.
Getting away from the subject a little but in the pre exchange era the likes of Luca Cumani, Gay Kellaway, Barry Hills and others had accounts with Irish firms Cashmans and Ross Brothers and they used to be able to get on without any problem and without the likes of Corals, Hills etc knowing anything about what they ‘fancied’. <br>Ross Brothers and Cashmans used to use the likes of Gary Wiltshire to get the money on over here and they normally added a bit on for themselves.<br>I uderstand they also used the bookmaker from Romford on occasions. <br>I had an unpaid job in placing some of this money either on course or in the shops.<br>One of Luca Cumani bets was for 40k on a tissue price of 2.50 (6/4) on an unraced filly at Brighton once.<br>The horse duly won at 1.909 (10/11) and the very next race she won was the Itailian Oaks and as Big Mac often says ‘He Knew'<br>(Thats how I knew about that Pam Sly horse Broadnard mentioned in another topic on here).<br>Barry Hills was costing them around 60k a year but they were happy to keep the account running as over they were in profit.<br>The Irish firms used to send money over here from Irish trainers they were keeping quiet about and one day two of us visited 13 betting shops with a bet of just £100 a time on a 33/1 winner named Anhortisanowl.<br>We just said we liked the name!<br>Happy Days!
I recall Gay Kelleway looking me straight in the eye a few years ago and insisting, without a tremor or a waver of the voice, that she’s never been into betting and never backs her horses.
This was a short while after she famously fainted in the winner’s enclosure somewhere (Newbury?) when she was overcome by stress, waiting for the result of a stewards’ after one of hers had passed the post narrowly in front. The story doing the rounds was that she’d had five grand on at 12-1.
The result was upheld, and a few days later Ms Kelleway bought herself a spanking new sports car. Which is, of course, what every right-thinking person should do when they cop that sort of money on a bet.
(Edited by Mr Frisk at 6:48 pm on Dec. 29, 2006)
You’ve hit the nail on the head there Dave Jay – if they’re caught!!!
Held a very entertaining conversation in the bar at Newbury racecourse last week with a couple of mates where they were teaching me that if you don’t get caught, you haven’t done anything wrong in the first place! You see, it’s only wrong if you get caught….:o :biggrin:
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