TALES FROM THE BETTING RING

Simon Nott spends a weekend at Cheltenham

This is my first article in this magazine since on-course bookmaker Ivor Perry passed away aged 85. Before I start relating the Cheltenham action, which Ivor would have loved, I’d like to pay tribute to him. I never actually worked for Ivor himself, but did for the Ivor Perry firm run by his daughter Wendy and son-inlaw Jo for the best part of a decade.
They took me on in 2001 and I worked for them until I joined TurfTV in 2008. Ivor had retired just before I started but was a regular fixture around th...