Commission agents

go to any race meeting, anybody with a computerised board,glazed expression and depressed demeanour is an agent.

I believe there are a couple who wish to trade and interact with actual cash punters and mentally joust over fractions or even take a view that the beast can't win. I'd wager such a throwback doesn't total 3% of those standing. This poxy cowardly modern scum who won't take an even score even if only holding a £100 exposure if it goes 1.99 on the machine just need shooting. A bookie is supposed to take a gamble and have some sort of exposure,the modern gutless geek has no recourse to exposure,just commission. Get a new ringfenced area with bookies not falling back on the machine and trading between themselves in a cash cash market and generating an atmosphere and punter/bookie enmity.

The thing I don't get is why they go racing?  If the machine is everything then stay home,lay at leisure and save the exes.Makes you wonder how many have a licence purely for laundry purposes?

I used to lay thru pubs,factories without bees etc (bygone era) but if anybody wanted an actual bet rather than interest I gave them best coupon price from big 5 and would listen to any wager required if I thought doable. Maybe I'd share some back (not bet back but share the liability) and life before the net was lived through a mobile.At least I'd always keep the first grand of exposure for myself be it 1000-100 many 100-80 for example. Undoubtedly I loved the buzz and the gamble more than those accounting but I had a relationship with my punters and a craic to boot. Standing on course is just so sterile and soul destroying nowadays.There will be a few gems out there, not many though

TBF I really shouldn't comment as what I hear and read is secondhand. Once upon a time I went 3 times a week minimum racing and 4 nights to the dogs. Those days are like my youth,never coming back.

The agents you recruited from here not getting on anymore?