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PLACEPOT PETE

Jan Brueghel, right, ridden by Sean Levey, winning the St Leger

GOT a 1p coin or two in your pocket? Me neither.
The 1p has gone the same way as the farthing – not the Penny Farthing but a beautiful but poor little farthing – when I was a kid in the Fifties.
As I recall, you could buy a Penny Chew for a halfpenny and two farthings if you were that well off after primary school in Catford.
These days the 1p coin is in a similar state, or is it? Not with the Tote, it’s not! The 1p coin can be used online as a not insignificant part of your Placep...

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