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It is probably the golden rule when it comes to betting. We all do it and are well aware of the consequences but we still can’t seem to stop ourselves…
Today, I made a £7.50 Lucky 15 bet in the betting office. Originally, the four horses I picked were Autspread, Strong Conviction, Gabrial The Master and The Ducking Stool (all at Yarmouth). After a short while, I had second thoughts about the latter two and ripped up the ticket. I then altered the bet to Autspread, Silver Alliance, Strong Conviction and One Kool Dude.
What a f…..g plonker! It was my biggest cock up in betting. Of all days, it had to happen on the 1st of April
I’m still hurting!
What’s been your biggest mess up in betting?
It is probably the golden rule when it comes to betting. We all do it and are well aware of the consequences but we still can’t seem to stop ourselves…
Today, I made a £7.50 Lucky 15 bet in the betting office. Originally, the four horses I picked were Autspread, Strong Conviction, Gabrial The Master and The Ducking Stool (all at Yarmouth). After a short while, I had second thoughts about the latter two and ripped up the ticket. I then altered the bet to Autspread, Silver Alliance, Strong Conviction and One Kool Dude.
What a f…..g plonker! It was my biggest cock up in betting. Of all days, it had to happen on the 1st of April
I’m still hurting!
What’s been your biggest mess up in betting?
If ever I change my mind I still back the original choice as well – it may result in two losers but still better than missing the winner.
If ever I change my mind I still back the original choice as well – it may result in two losers but still better than missing the winner.
Errrm….
Mike
A few years back I did a similar thing at Royal Ascot, I had four written out but stupidly checked the Racing Post and let them talk me out of Barba Papa in the Ascot Stakes and I swapped him for the Martin Pipe trained favourite, which I think was Local Hero. Two of the winners I had were Romantic Myth for Tim Easterby and Observatory for John Gosden but the other winner escapes me right now. I still had a decent day with a treble and a placepot up as well but the change cost me around £3000 and is my biggest cock-up in betting. Years later I would read that Clement Freud had the same three winners as myself that day AND stuck with Tony Martin’s Barba Papa, so I assume he didn’t have that old Bloodhound look on his face that night. That must have paid for a mighty load of Minced Morsels Henry!!
In your Face Caution:-
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Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Rob, my day of disaster was Grand National day in 1968.
The night before I had written out my usual three each-way doubles and a treble:
Alpine (Atty Corbett) in the sprint which used to open the National card.
Drumikill (Ken Oliver) in the handicap hurdle, race two.
Red Alligator (Denys Smith) in the National.
The next morning I had an idle morning at work and started looking at the card again.
I kept Alpine (won 9-1) but substituted Early To Rise (Bob Turnell) for Drumikill, and Highland Wedding (Toby Balding) for Red Alligator.
The original bet would have returned about £500 and would have paid off my car loan (which was killing me). I ended up with nothing except a 9-1 winner that got away.
Drumikill won at 100-8 and Red Alligator at about the same price.
These horses, as Queen Mary said, are engraved on my heart.
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