Quote: Fat Boy "The missus and I went to Ripon last weekend on a whim - £6 in to the centre bit (don't know what it's called), a couple of quid each on the first 4 races and won fekk all. This included me betting on two horses and the missus betting on two different horses in a 5 horse race and we still fekkin' lost!!!
Went home after that - not really a betting man me.'"
Party of eight of us on a lads day at the races a few years ago, eight races, five quid each in the kitty given to the one lad who said he knew all about racing form and stuff...
Our horse won in the first race so we added about £40 to the kitty, we didn't win anything else for the rest of the day so for the last race we had our £5 kitty money plus the £40 win, easy decision, split the £40 eight ways and put the original £5 on the last race - free day out.
No said our racing tipster idiot, theres only three horses in this last race and one of them is a dead cert, he will walk it (literally although we didn't know it at the time), I'll put all the £45 on it and we'll get a little bit back, not a lot, but it all counts for the beer kitty later on that night.
We argued but he did it anyway.
The last race was a short 7 furlong affair, it was over and done with in seconds and to me it looked as though only two horses had finished, "Go get our winnings and lets get to the pub" we told our racing tipster idiot, he just pointed to the finish line where, a full five minutes after the other two horses had finished our "dead cert" was now walking across the line with the jockey walking beside it, in fact the f'kin jockey crossed the line before the horse did and I swear he was laughing, the horse that is, not the jockey.
You also won't be surprised to note that when we turned to the betting ring all of the bookies had packed up and done a runner, its almost like they knew what was going to happen...
