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Alan Ridley: Straight Answer.
Lydia, in your under noted article FOBTs are painted as bad boys. Yes, but this takes the eye of racing’s woes. FOBTs are only one-armed bandits’ owned by real corporate bandits and therein doth sit the monster’s real roots, it’s all about scurrilous profit taking, and, as Maxilon 5 rightly pleads “We need solutions and a major article suggesting solutions. Fast.â€Â
Given up on the betting code now though I see…
On the contrary, Aragorn, both this issue and the betting code are connected.
AR
Praise for reet hard (post, Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:59 am) and Galejade (post, Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:16 pm). Only occasionally does an excellence of insight so elegantly blend with such an authoritative rubric.
“As the vast majority of the information concerned horses that wouldn’t win, then it is a reasonable assumption the horses were either placed, trained, or raced not to win, otherwise the jockeys would have been guessing, and therefore not passing on information. Therein lies the real corruption, the one that is acted out every day, in almost every race, on a far larger scale than the jockeys could ever perpetrate, and the one that anyone with more than a superficial knowledge is aware of, yet you, Lydia, the media in general, and the HRA in particular, continually turn a blind eye to in the hope that the sacrifice of a few jockey’s careers will cover up that which exchange activity is clearly laying bare.
“Tell me again about pioneering journalism?â€ÂThe only worthy point raised by the HRA is as follows:
“Another important factor is that cheating [/color:2zd63jb3]connected with betting becomes a specific criminal offence in September 2007, when section 42 of the Gambling Act 2005 becomes law.â€Â
Quote: from Mounty on 8:45 pm on May 19, 2007[br]
The last time I was in Newbury I popped into Corals at 10am (to get knocked back on the Pricewise selection) –
Getting your money on. Why on earth would any good businessman turn down business? The inside information answer is obvious. Turn away or take a lower punt where the win information has been – deduced? – leaked. How often does this actually happen?
This is only the tip-of-the-corruption-iceberg. One does not need to be a TRF “expertâ€ÂÂ
News…
Keep your losing betting slips. They will be necessary receipts when you are able to claim your money back because any ‘“substantially unfairâ€ÂÂ
LetsGetRacing, no, there is no ducking the issue of corruption, which, “unquestionably existsâ€ÂÂ
LetsGetRacing<br>“And I might have known that once a thread like this popped up, Boo Ridley would creep out from behind the stone he calls home and turn a sensible discussion into another sensationalist rant against corruption, cartels, fixed betting and his self-appointment as racing’s saviour.â€ÂÂ
News…
“David Harding, chief executive of William Hill, cashed in £2.5m in share options this week.â€ÂÂ
wit, excellent point regarding the new Gambling Act, sections 335-337, and yes, you are correct,  “Section 335 will make gambling contracts enforceable.â€ÂÂ
Quote: from betlarge on 7:48 pm on April 23, 2007[br]
Ps. I gave Betfair a “heads upâ€ÂÂ
Quote: from Nor1 on 6:07 pm on April 23, 2007[br]Brilliant informative forum and a witty posting from Aragorn which made me chuckle. It’s when AR gets involved with the mathematics my brain shuts down.
Exactly, Nor1, who has the spare time or resources to bother with a thorough mathematical analysis – “institutionalised corruptionâ€ÂÂ
