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Just wondering if anyone has any info as to how the last three years or so have gone for him.
Can't seem to find much from 2012 onward on internet, apart from a bankruptcy notice!
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60521-1833505
Anyone shed any light?
Definitely one of the games more colourful characters and I just hope that he's not hit bad times.
Can't seem to find much from 2012 onward on internet, apart from a bankruptcy notice!
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60521-1833505
Anyone shed any light?
Definitely one of the games more colourful characters and I just hope that he's not hit bad times.
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Coventry Dog Track owner ....
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Coventry now closed.
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Building development possibly.... you win when you lose, you win when you lose....
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Doing dirty e w doubles in Fenland
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He used to live above a betting shop................
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One of the great charactors of the game , and a good guy to boot , shame if he has come upon hard times ..I wish the guy well , some on here forgot what its like to be broke ..Easy to trow stones ..
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Guess we should all bung in.............
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WORKRIDER A TRUE CHARACTER OF THE GAME, HE HAS/WILL LIVE/D LIFE IN THE FAST LANE.
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A MAN THAT LIVES ON THE EDGE
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Mange just loved his devil may care attitude ,remember him at Shelbourne one night , he had the leading bookie terrifed , C/banana was doing the business for him that night...
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Hope so Dickie ,heard he looked after a few who had hit hard times themselves ,hope they remember him ...
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Might be sad if & when these mavriks go skint.............but Im shure that he can go to work........Ive been to-day & will go again in a mo.............
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Doubt he be into working Mange ,but if needs must ...
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Thats the problem wiv these ex "milk monitors"
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I have no idea about the personal details regarding Mr Findlay's financial position other than to say if he lost everything because of gambling then we should feel no sympathy at all.
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Barry Hills had a quote to the tune off the bigger the price the more you have on.
Harry seemed to do the opposite.....the shorter the price the more he lumped on. That day at Chepstow was the beginning of the end when there were 3 or 4 very short ones that Nicholl/Barber and he had and all backed as if defeat never in doubt and all stuffed.An early season jumps meeting. Don't think Nicholls or Barber sent him any Christmas cards since. |
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Nicholls backed them? His biggest bets are around £50 so doubt he was too concerned financially, and with Harry listening to his advice for a year he done in 7 figures. If he is now on hard times he's certainly led a life, and I expect the hanger ons from back then are nowhere to be seen now, if that is the case. Good luck to the bloke as was certainly a character.
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& the Bookies are still going
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@Agadolphin -- Barry Hills had a quote to the tune off the bigger the price the more you have on.
Harry seemed to do the opposite.....the shorter the price the more he lumped on. I've never met Harry (though did used to know one of his card-markers, if that is the right term) but Harry did seem in his later public utterances to make that expensive slip from thinking something was a short price because it was a certainty, to the mug's version: "this is a certainty because it is a short price". |
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left field of martingayle
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I met Harry at Newbury races when Denman won his 2nd Hennessey. A really top guy. Gave us Shillingstone in the last without us even asking him for a tip. Romped in.
Lives in Australia now does Harry. Sydney. Lovely city |
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I don't think HF needed any encouragement to bet the short ones
seem to remember a story a few years ago that the rugby world cup really facked him as well  catches up with you in the end |
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isn't assie land a betting Mecca
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New Zealand cost him big time in the World Cup.
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If he' still a player then this thread will be down by this evening - if the thread is still going then cold baked beans it is!!
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He made a packet backing Woods & Federer at short odds when they were in their pomp.
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I'm sure Harry was betting on the margins with the bookies.
I believe he couldn't get enough on with BF without the price falling below that offered by the books. An interesting dilemma. Do you go for big hits on poor odds on shots that you believe are underpriced? Or small hits , more regularly on the bookies mistakes ? From what I saw on T V Harry had a big ego, the world had to know about him. I don't think that is how the winners in this game operate for two reasons , firstly they don't want their accounts closed and two the changing tax implications with regard employment as "Profesional Gamblers". |
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Accounts closed? Doubt he had any bookie accounts due to his stakes. "Changing tax implications" - people will be claiming tax rebates back then if that is the case? Or am I missing something?
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HOW MANY BIG TIME GAMBLERS DO YOU KNOW ,WHO MAKE A LIVEING FROM GAMBLING
NONE,YOUR ALL LIVEING IN A DREAM WORLD WITH A LIFE OF GRANDOUR ,GAMBLERS ANNONOMOUS IS FULL OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU ,OR THERE TAKING DEPRESSION PILLS LIKE ME |
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This is the ''pretend gamblers'' forum Do Wah !
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RACIST
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boxing
always bet on the black guy |
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and two the changing tax implications with regard employment as "Profesional Gamblers".
There are no tax liabilities for 'gambling' in UK, professional or otherwise. |
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^ You f*cking idiot.
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Johnny, I assume that was not meant for me
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Absolutely not Andrew, it was for the fool who posted just before you did.
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No IT WAS MEANT FOR ME HE THOUGHT HE WAS TELLING YOU SOMETHING YO6 DONT ALREASY KNOW
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HES HAD A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD ,HEWAS THE ONLY MUSTANG IN THE VILLAGE
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