Simon Nott spends a couple of days among the bookies at Ascot and Newton Abbot

TALES FROM THE BETTING RING
Simon Nott

ASCOT 09/09/17
There had been some fun and games in the betting ring on Friday and such was the mirth one hapless character was still getting some stick on Saturday. Regular readers of this column would have no doubt heard of Jack Bevan and Co (est 1897) and their long-standing right hand man Ian, otherwise known as ‘Ivor Biggun’ on special occasions, that is until the Fun Police on-course decided that the name was rather misleading.
Ian was...