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NO BULL IS OUR GREATEST LOSS

Rolf Johnson reflects on the life and times of formbook genius Phil Bull

The Racing Post ran a series on professional gamblers – “Masters of Betting”. Phil Bull was the only one not ‘active’ – he died in 1989. He was wont to address others - fellow gamblers, employees, the great and the good - as “Brother”: put that down to Phil’s Marxist leanings (Karl Marx gambled, not that successfully, on the Stock Exchange). It wasn’t necessarily a term of endearment either. Phil was liberal with his dreaded Timeform ‘sq...

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