Were are the Gambling Industy Thinkers,
4 Months ago, I wrote a blog tale explaining the folly of the BHA whip rules, and explained that they would have to rethink if they wished to improve the game as against ruin it for ever.
What they have done is commendable and the new chief executive Paul Bittar, could be the games savour.(Horseracing)
What is to happen will save a possible riot at the Cheltenham Festival? Where the English, horses would have been at a massive disadvantage over the Irish, jockeys the majority can’t count anyway. Other than there winnings, no longer in Punts but £s.
I will will be looking at there runners with a great deal of interest. And I will explain why.
There is another policy flaw, in Britain that will play into the hands of our friends from over the Irish Sea, and it is the amount of runners, in the UK, that has made our racing uncompetitive.
To see the amount of 6/7 runner handicaps, is no coincident, and were are the old 16 runner plus, handicaps. That gave our runners a feel for what to expect at the forthcomming Cheltenham,Festival.
I will be blunt, this control of the amount of runners, by a black art, that increase the Bookmakers profits by as much as 15/20% is a scandal that requires an enquiry by the BHA at once, starting at Wetherbys.
The profits being made by the High Street shops, is no longer reliant on casino games, but the man in the street, who places his £5 Each way, regardless of the amount of runners is being hung drawn and quartered.
I am not saying that Bookmakers in the UK are not offering a good service, for they are betting to tighter margins than ever before. in the win markets and what with guaranteed odds offering the better price at tissue or starting price a first class concession, but what of the % in the place markets work it out for yourself,
So why do they have to conspire with who ever, to create races, were the % in the place book, redresses all the good they have done. It is the nearest to Find the Lady than I have seen since I sat and watched the Walsall Mob, on the race-trains. Of the 40s.
The industry are on a win/win situation, for if the thinking public rebel even more so, and forget horseracing, and greyhounds for there daily fun, completely, they have more Football entertainment, than ever before with every game throwing up 30 or more opportunities, instead of the Home/Away/Draw. Of the past. I personally were proud to announce that I entered Hall Green Greyhound Stadium, in 1952 were I was a tick tack for my father, and was asked to show Archie Vincent and Bill Cutler the coupon that I had drafted, with every player in the F,A Cup. Being offered as the first goal scorer. plus a half time full time market, From that date, to the 21st century, spot betting stagnated, although the increase in betteing tax, by a government hell bent on saving the Football Coupen monopoly but internet betting regurgitated what was a gold mine, waiting to be discovered.
Any one who asks me If I was so clever why I didn’t I move on to many other great betting opportunities, in Football? My reply is that the Beatles arrived and gave this 21 year old, new fun and games to explore.
Unlike Fred Done, who has gone on to rule the betting world? After all I am more handsome than my friend Fred.
Follow this blog, with, other snippets, before I depart this world, after which, you may find that the truth, is harder to find.
Cubone