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Placepot Pete: Betting Tales from Leopardstown

Placepot Pete:

What we do, ‘Robbo’ my Placepot partner and I, is pick a main meeting on ITV on Saturdays because he doesn’t have Sky or a computer for our Tote account, so I text him the ‘numbers’ - how many selections I think are needed per race - and he chooses the actual horses on the blustery beach in Dymchurch.
We normally lay out five or six quid each on the main bet and I spend two or three extra pounds on a secondary meeting, usually one covered by Sky, jumps or all-weather.
Before we got our little enterprise going, Robbo used to join a few of his mates at ‘the club’ in what he called his ‘Unlucky...

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