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a grisly thread. I'm 64 so remember Doug Smith very well. He was the equivalent of Fallon or similar of his day.He was permanently top 3. He rode for Brooke and the wonderful Jack Watts.
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a grisly thread. I'm 64 so remember Doug Smith very well. He was the equivalent of Fallon or similar of his day.He was permanently top 3. He rode for Brooke and the wonderful Jack Watts.
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Memory is waning so I stand corrected. Think it happened on a Monday morning ( or the day before and I read about it in the RP on the Monday). There were no Forums in existence then so I must definitely have read in the printed media that he was rumoured to have involved himself with some baddies.
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I remember the Daily Mail 'Roll-Up' bet.
The idea was to back 20 consecutive (forecast) Even-Money chances - - and Roll-Up the Winnings, and Stake, from one onto the next horse - and so on... Thus winning a theoretically potential £1 million - I think. There was NOT a Bet every day, of course - and in one sequence they had got up to 17 consecutive winners. I was in a Betting Shop, and one punter said - "I see Roll-Up's going again, today - do you think they will get to the 20?" The other punter replied ...... "He hasn't picked one of Doug Smith's yet." The selection that day was one of Smith's ... It LOST. |