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dermie23

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Original Post 2011-Feb-09, 01:01 AM

Hi all - i am new here and need some advice .
I placed 2 $600 bets to place with an online bookmaker on races in England with less than 20 seconds to go - one horse was paying $2.50 at the jump and the other $4- i expected the bookmaker to match the STAB odds but to my shock they laid my bet off on the STAB pool thus ruining the pool and with barely $1000 in the place pool, both horses ran a place and both paid $1 - to my way of thinking with less 20 seconds to go the online bookie has placed this bet on after the race has jumped which is highly illegal- i have since rung them and they refuse to pay anymore than the $1 saying we pay what the TAB pays - i asked them to at least match the NSW TAB odds which were $1.80 and $2.50 and they refused - no where on their website does it say they put a punters money into the TAB pool or i would not have put such huge bets on and instead bet with bookies that offer fixed odds on English races .
Any advice as to where to take it from here would be much appreciated because i have been ripped off $2700


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Rumpelstiltskin

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2011-Feb-11, 02:44 PM

sounds like your a pretty good punter, do you use a system


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JWesleyHarding

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2011-Feb-11, 02:57 PM

Cast Iron was a fav of mine, didn't back him in that race, but think I backed him in an Epsom or Doncaster.

He stood at stud and had a well-named daughter, Chastity Belt.


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2011-Feb-11, 02:58 PM

No Rumpels, Think I might be a better story teller, but no I don't bet to a system, and at my age in life the First Four is my only interest, it used to be the Treble, and the computer is my only guide. And of course using download data files from TAB.


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Jim Pike

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2011-Feb-11, 02:59 PM

Cast Iron was trained by a well known punting stable, I think from memory it was Kevin Hayes and was usually ridden by Keith Banks who was a well known "Money" rider, you can bank on it not getting under the stables guard, back in the Good old days nothing ever surprised the stables, if they didn't think it could win they would make damn sure it didn't!

I remember an old time trainer who set a horse for a race at Randwick it had been dead in all it's lead up runs and was 200/1 and back in the 60's there would have been 200 bookies at Randwick and all would take a bet, the horse won and the trainer was going out to celebrate that night and asked the Jockey to watch his bag for him, the Jockey put the bag in his boot and forgot about it, the next day the trainer turned up at the Jockeys place and asked for his bag, the Jockey went out to the driveway and got the bag out of the boot, when the trainer opened it the Jockey nearly had kittens it was full of 10 pound notes nearly 100,000 pounds which back in the 60's would be the equivalent of well in excess of a$Mill in todays money,
Bloody lucky someone didn't steal the car!
That Jockey's son is riding today and rides a lot of winners


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