Same Glasgow , hadnt posted on what was Chit Chat for months either ,Would usually Attribute to him off sunning himself ,but that could not have
been the case , Hopefully just taking a break , top fella .

first time i have seen this thread
Iris of mayfair
Iris of mayfair01 Aug 10 18:24Joined: 30 Jul 07 | Topic/replies: 673 | Blogger: Iris of mayfair's blog
Chas Miller
Steve Joel

Both truly love the game
yes and without betfair would not take a coin

Most of the posts would have been regarding Pre Betfair Wedge

only john poulter at hove had the balls to lay a bet even put banks to shame when he pitched up as for charlie any lump he did take normally ended up in poulters satchel as for steve well i like a laugh and as he reads this i wont slight him
will mention one who never shirked a bet and that was terry from harrison racing but he had no pitch

wish you well slippy iv also got a little bit of liver trouble caused by the tablets iv been on for years for rheumatoid arthritus got to go to barnet hospital friday

G luck Slippy mate  , we  missed u  . Sounds like u have been through WW3 , Keep safe mate

Pleased you have come through that Slippy. Welcome back.

Good to see you back slippy

you must have been owed money slippy and refused to go.......all the best on your road to recovery.....

All the best slippy glad to here your on the mend, best wishes from the sunny end Of the A3 your fav road .

Sam and Alec at Catford, like Waldorf and Stadler

john power and the old bloke at oxford told harry you can have what you like on but put it in the bag first lol

SlippyBlue • July 31, 2013 9:27 PM BST
An extremely predictable response really by you and a bit unnecessary, he and JH both used to ask me to mark their cards.
Anyway, not that important in the greater scheme of things.

I can't speak for JH but Les Ray definitely didn't ask you to mark his card

I have posted this 'story' previously when John Jenkins passed away but I thought I'd just post it again as it's very apt to this thread and for me partly sums up the difference of between 'then' and 'now' - It was worth the entrance fee at Walthamstow just to watch John and his brother 'perform'. Brought real character to the ring and his sense of humour although dry was really funny.

I remember (same of the fine detail might be blurred) on one occasion the well fancied favourite was chalked up at 2/1 with all the bookies, as always the punters were all waiting in the hope someone would go 9/4, all of a sudden all the other bookies wiped it off and John was the only one left with a price up, it seemed that everyone was running down to John to try and get on, with that he wiped it off as well but shouted 'don't push you're all on', there must have been 20 or more of us queuing up, some, like me, with a £20 note, others with bundles of hundreds, as promised we all got on at 2/1. By now the other bookies had chalked up 7/4 or even 13/8 and were taking bets at pace. By the time the last customer of John got on the hare running bell rang and of course John then chalked up and shouted out I'll lay 9/4! Pure class.

Funny, I can't remember if the dog even won but I can remember John Jenkins and how he helped make a night at the dogs entertaining, oh how we miss those days.

brainsy,,,just bseen this thread. I can give you a little story about Ray Raines, but not from the dogs.

In the mid 1980's he stood on the rails at some Southern horse racing tracks. I cannot recall if it was in his own name or repping for someone else. But on the last day of the Newmarket July meeting in 1986 an unraced horse was widely tipped in a maiden.

It was nearing the end of the card and I wanted £200 cash on it. The betting action was thick and fast for the race and I went to Raines asking for £350 to £200 on the 7/4 shot. He took it and shouted to the clerk 'put it down to leather' before saying to me 'sorry fellas, out of tickets, but you know I am OK for it on the name'. (I had a leather jacket on so that was where he got 'leather' from.)

I was only 26 at the time but already a very experienced racecourse punter and so I knew there would be no issue about payment if it copped.

Sadly for me, the horse was well beaten so I trooped home well down on the day.

The following week I was at Hackney Dogs and talking to a regular there. I told him how busy Newmarket had been and about Raines running out of tickets. The regular had already heard about that and told me that the Raines joint had won, wait for it, £37,000 on that one race such was the volume of business. £37k is around £75-£80k now (I think). 

I never knew how true that was but when I saw Raines refuse a bloke £250 to £40 on the fractions at Sandown a week later I did wonder if the £37K story was legit!! Great, great days though.

Jenkins brothers/ John Power by a street