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Harry Findlay said:-
They’re afraid of the risk factor[/b:o3pt5xxx].He’s right of course as far as I’m concerned it’s all about risk and reward and value of course and buying money does not feature in my betting patterns although that’s not to say some odds on shots can’t be value> Does anyone remember the paper bag punter who kept all winnings in a carrier bag to lump on Henrys Cecil’s short ones. He was winning bundles until he lost the lot
When it comes down to Harry Findlay and his gambling there will always be those that are amazed by he heavy losses/and wins he has.
Harry has always made good copy for newspapers and he is never reticent to speak about his family, life style, bets (win and lose) or even his pets.
With regard to his football bets he has been friend for years with Brighton born punter Tony ‘The Lizard’ Bloom who is even a bigger punter than Harry ever has been on football bets.
Tony Bloom set up Premierbet which specailises on Asian Handicap betting and has been pumping a lot of money in to Brighton & Hove Albion football club as well as buying in to Harry’s horses in the last few days.
What ever anyone thinks of Harry Findlay betting stratergies he has been without doubt very lucky with some of the race horses and greyhounds he has owned, as many muti millionaires in the past have pumped hundreds of thousands into realisng the dream of winning The Cheltenham Gold Cup without success and Greyhound owners still spend thousands buying decent Greyhounds in attempting to win The Greyhound Derby.
Harry has achieved both!
It was not that many years ago Harry used to get people in Ford prison (while he was banged up there) who had phone credits to get money on with bookmakers for him by using his accounts!
I know someone who was in there at the time and he thinks he was just the same then as he is today.
If Harry was ever in need of a few bob there would be many publishers willing to publish his life story. A film company may even get interested!
Good Luck to him.
He did set up Premierbet Seagull but he sold them on about 7 or 8 years ago ie. long before all the issues arrived with the new owners and going under.
The football betting firm he owns/runs which now specialises in finding value bets for its customers is Star Lizard – possibly the most successful betting venture of its kind.
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I am not interested in this instance in the whys and wherefores of cannabis, or of whether or not everyone in horseracing knows that Findlay uses it for medicinal purposes (they don’t/didn’t). I just wondered what people feel of the fact that racing’s trade paper chose not to give this story even a passing mention when it might well have been front-page news in other sports and has been picked up by at least one national newspaper. Is Racing Post too cosy with many of the sport’s leading protagonists, or are they right to turn a blind eye in such instances?
Perhaps their journalists were either overwhelmed by the size of their lunches or too busy trying to log on their website to do anything about it.
An interesting point Prufrock, but what is the equivalent of a well known racehorse owner in say, football? The guy who sponsors the shirts perhaps?
Findlay isn’t a jockey or a trainer or a horse, just a larger-than-life figure on the peripherary of the sport like, say, a racing journalist; involved but not central to it.
Maybe the RP didn’t report it because it’s too cosy, but it’s very small beer. Do they report every owner of well known horses who gets a warning from plod?Paul Nicholls, the main trainer for said personality, writes a popular column in said newspaper on Saturday. Findlay fills plenty of blank pages with his colourful copy. Piss him off and potentially there’s plenty of empty space. Don’t want to rock the boat in this industry.
The most pertinent point of this though, is what were you doing reading the Daily Mail online?
. I hear you are in town in the next few days. You’ll be pleased to hear Fagins has reopened if you fancy catching up.As you know Pruf, the Daily Mail is the newspaper to break the racing stories others shy away from, which is why Colin MacKenzie won an award yesterday. They love a dope fiend, don’t they?
Lol, DJ. I was wondering where on Earth the story was and someone drew my attention to it. Daily Mail is definitely not on my list of favourite websites! Excellent news on Fagins. That sounds like a date: Thursday night.
In this instance, the journalists had it put on a plate for them (along with the stuffed pheasant etc): the incident even got mentioned in the acceptance speech of one of the other winners.
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I just find it funny that one of the most brash characters in racing would get nervous when asked to make a short acceptance speech, when the related award would surely have played up to his ego? The idea that he didn’t know the ceremony was anything more than a ‘pub do’ is laughable enough, but to then use it as an excuse?
Come off it, Harry.
As Pru says, not only was it mentioned on-stage, the rumour went around as they were sitting down that Harry had been done for it.
I just find it funny – if Harry wants to smoke joints then good for him. It certainly doesn’t bother me, nor do I find it especially newsworthy nor shocking that it should be revealed in a ‘scoop’ either!
Rory
Oh, and most of the RP hacks won’t have been in a fit state to come up with such ‘scoops’ either!
I just find it funny that one of the most brash characters in racing would get nervous when asked to make a short acceptance speech, when the related award would surely have played up to his ego? The idea that he didn’t know the ceremony was anything more than a ‘pub do’ is laughable enough, but to then use it as an excuse?
Come off it, Harry.
Actually, that’s not far from the truth; Harry has a huge persona, but is actually surprisingly unassuming most of the time. Like most similar people, his larger than life character is no more than a coping mechanism.
Actually, that’s not far from the truth; Harry has a huge persona, but is actually surprisingly unassuming most of the time. Like most similar people, his larger than life character is no more than a coping mechanism.
Ditto Big Mac
Colin MacKenzie won an award yesterday
Has every racing hack on earth received a gong at some time?
Careful monitoring of these truly fabulous events tells me Geoff Lester has risen to the top of the rota once again so can look forward to five courses, five bottles, fat cigars and the gushing tributes of his peers at the next award beano, next week
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1. I didn’t know that Harry Findlay likes a joint, but, now I do, he’s gone up even further in my estimation.
2. He needs to be careful, though, about where he smokes ’em.
3. We can’t be too precious, surely, about drugs, when my ex-boss, SIR Ken Macdonald, recent Director of Public Prosecutions, has form for the same.
4. Although I like to think of myself as a liberal, the Daily Mail isn’t allowed in our house, even in the bathroom.
bri
I think right to turn a blind eye to this one but they can be overly cosy on occasions. However they do need the support of jockeys, trainers and owners to a fair extent and in the incestuous world that is professional racing I’d guess they have to keep as many people sweet as possible.
Contrast that with football where the clubs need positive PR coverage and plenty of it in order to sell shirts, etc, and are willing to put up with the mauling they get from the footie hacks from time to time to maintain it (the coverage/PR).
Your average jockey, for example, doesn’t need the Racing Post at all, relatively speaking, and owners even less so. You could argue that trainers are in a position where positive coverage does help them with owner finding/keeping and I guess that is why the likes of Nicholls have columns (that and the cash they get for the copy) but I would guess a lot of trainers only really feel the need to speak to the RP (and others) out of courtesy.
. I hear you are in town in the next few days. You’ll be pleased to hear Fagins has reopened if you fancy catching up.
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