Mr Boyce Goes To Southwell

[Maxilon 5]

Nice to see you wielding a satchel today – first time I’ve ever seen you without a tie! – and I hope you had a good day here at the sandpit.

Were you filming something for ATR? Doing a Justin Lee Collins? Or are you leaving the booth to Chappers?

Cheers

Max

[Ken(West Derby)]

……wielding a satchel today

Collecting his winnings, perhaps?

Going into the bookmaking business?

[Maxilon 5]

He was taking bets on the Barry Johnson joint, Ken.

I didn’t know he was a bookmaker or had bookmaker connections, but there he was!

[Ken(West Derby)]

…..(2007 article)..Barry Johnson, also 58, recently spent £1.25m to buy 34 pitches in the south and midlands. "I didn’t win the lottery," he said. "I earned this money in business throughout my life.

Must have recouped it by now because Boycie doesn’t come cheap, by anyone’s standards..

[The Ante-Post King]

There"s a "Max/Boyce" Joke here somewhere!

[Maxilon 5]

There certainly is, Gordon.

BTW, about time both you and Ken got yourselves up the A38 isn’t it?

Lots of NH coming up.

[Ken(West Derby)]

I was up the A4071 on Saturday, Ebaying. One and only bidder at 99pence saving myself a couple of hundred. Felt sorry for the guy who failed to put up a reserve price.
The A38? What’s there, Max? The back of beyond.
I’m based midway Newmarket, Huntington and Cottenham these days. I prefer the gentler life now that I’m a country squire.
K

[The Ante-Post King]

There certainly is, Gordon.

BTW, about time both you and Ken got yourselves up the A38 isn’t it?

Lots of NH coming up.

I love the drive out to South-well Max,i play Golf at "Springwater" quite often and when i get stuck in the Sand i often think of the All weather as i curse my luck!

[seanboyce]

You should have come and said hello!
I was up there for my own website. I haven’t spoken with anyone at TRF about whether it can be mentioned on here, might be spamming, so I won’t plug the URL, although hopefully there’s no conflict at all between this excellent forum and what I’m doing with my blog.
I’ve set up a blog so that I can write in a bit more detail than the TV allows about things I’m interested in. I’ll cover all the big racing stuff – plenty of National stuff up there at the moment – but I want to look at aspects of the industry in more detail.
The betting ring has changed a hell of a lot since I first started betting, so I went and spent a day with Ben Johnson at Southwell yesterday to see what a standard ‘day at the office’ is like for an on course bookie.
So, in a week or so, when I find time to write up the hours of audio I’ve recorded there’ll be a nice feature which hopefully people will enjoy reading but will also explain what the actual facts and figures, and nuts and bolts are.
I’ll be doing the same with other parts of the business, spending time with other people who work in different parts of the game to try and put together a bit of a jigsaw of interviews and features which will give us all something to talk about I hope and also increase our understanding of how it all works.
Really enjoyed my day yesterday, was actually pretty tired by the time I got back home (not used to standing up all day, most people don’t know that I even have legs!). Ben and Mandy and Carl were great and it was a real eye opener in lots of ways. Should make a good piece and provide plenty to talk about.

[seanboyce]

ps- it’s actually about 20 years I reckon since I was last at Southwell!
I’ll try not to leave it so long next time as it was enjoyable, nice relaxed banter in the ring, decent facilities and really nice staff.

[davidjohnson]

Anyone that wants to find Sean’s blog should be able to do so if the google boycies betting blog. Looks very interesting.

[wallace-no7]

Is this Sean Boyce of ATR fame?

Pleasure

[seabird]

That blog sounds interesting, Sean, will have a look for it now.

Good luck and thanks.

Colin

[seanboyce]

Cormack has kindly informed me that I can add it to my signature which will save any detective work. It’s only just started so the content will build day by day and week by week but i’d love any feedback.
Cheers
Boycie

[wallace-no7]

Looks a very smooth looking website.

Now all you have to do is pick 33/1 Early morning price winners like Hugh Taylor.

How does the man do it? and does he drive a different car into ATR TOWERS every time he is on?

[Anonymous]

Nice blog Sean, well layed out now the hard part is keeping it productive!

good luck

[seanboyce]

Thanks for that Mr W, appreciate it. You’re abosolutely right of course, it’s a bit of a labour of love and you’re right keeping it fresh will eat up the hours but keeps me busy and I’m enjoying it so far.

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