He has always had a love for British greyhound racing and worked with greyhounds for a while after leaving school. Then aged just 20 Findlay spent 11 months in prison convicted of credit card fraud. Still a big player and maybe he should be at the top of this list as he is still very active. If there is a book to read about JP let me know in the comments, I’d love to read it. Alex Bird

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According to Wikipedia JP MvManus nett worth runs into the billions and they currently state it as 2.3 billion USD Perhaps both the most well-known yet secretive of Britain’s most successful gamblers, Tony ‘The Lizard’ Bloom has gone to great lengths to keep his actual wealth private. She said: "We have had horses at Ditcheat for eight or nine years and many people there will know just how honest and straight Harry is with his gambling. Yet the support, from the place where Gullible Gordon was trained, has simply not been loud enough or strong enough."It's very, very sad that our partnership has come to an end, but it's been going on for nine years, which is probably eight more than I thought it would at the start, and all good things must come to an end. McGrath, J A (1 January 2012). "Punters fear the worse in Betfair dispute". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012 . Retrieved 3 January 2012. Many of the world’s most famous gamblers originate from the much larger United States, while Hong Kong also has links with a lot of the more successful names in the industry.

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Snow Fairy, the Oaks winner, remains on course for the Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday week, Ed Dunlop, her trainer, said. If I were leaving school now, the chances of ending up behind bars are the same as me skiing for Britain in the London Olympics. It only happened because of all the lies and kid-ology that used to go on with betting. Nobody can get [bets] on with bookmakers, because when you win you get closed down. Now it's all up front. We're now living in the real world. Press that button on Betfair and let's see how good you are. Simple. There's no myths or lies any more, it's all fact." Nowadays, some casinos even have two zeroes on the roulette wheel. Anyone playing them should be certified. But gambling on a Champions League match, a Premier League match, you can win." This, he explains, is because modern betting exchanges take a far lower proportion of their punters' stakes in profit. "There is no margin, it's about 2 per cent.

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Denman and Sam Thomas with owner Harry Findlay after victory in the Gold Cup at Newbury in 2007 Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/PA Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd v South Australia [1990] HCA 1, (1990) 169 CLR 436(7 February 1990), High Court. Betfair, NYRA reach wagering agreement". thoroughbredtimes.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009 . Retrieved 3 November 2009.

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Terry Ramsden is a quintessential example of the rags-to-riches means gambling can provide those who are successful. Betfair PR: Independence Day for Betfair Poker". prweb.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2009 . Retrieved 8 April 2009.

The six-month ban was condemned by Betfair as being disproportionate; Harry said he was mortified and a “heartbroken man” vowing to never own racehorses in Britain again even if he were to win an appeal against the ban. Betfair offer in play betting on a variety of horseracing events. There has been some controversy over alleged broadcast delays of up to five seconds. [42] He also believes that direct, accountable trading via the internet betting exchanges is taking the carpet up on the cheats, and he colorfully repaints some of the turf's most honored names as arrant frauds. "At the end of the day, it don't matter how big your house is," he says. "Nurses and teachers working for nothing, they're the real legends. If you cheat, what kind of buzz is there, conning all that lot?" One of the most British bettors of all time also happens to be one of the oldest, with Joseph Jagger regarded as something of a forefather in this part of the industry. I ask Findlay about corruption in sport, often driven by gambling syndicates. “A lot goes on. They bet on Futures [tennis] matches and lower leagues. No tennis reporter says: ‘You were 75% favourite and it was 25% the other guy an hour before the game. Then, just before you started, the odds go the other way. Did it change because you stood on glass and shouldn’t have played or someone heard you had a terrible headache? Tell us the reasons because the maths don’t lie.’”

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Bowers, Simon (15 October 2005). "Chief of Betfair steps down as float is cancelled". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014 . Retrieved 8 April 2009. Industry Awaits Betfair Plans for TVG". bloodhorse.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009 . Retrieved 8 April 2009. Gambling takes its toll but Findlay says that, until 2013, “I’d never been depressed. No matter how bad the lost fortunes. The way I live my life, with my philosophy, there is no way money alone would make me depressed. But the combination of horse racing and the dog stuff was brutal. I felt like a mug.” She's in good form and did her first piece of work last week after Epsom and we were pleased with that," Dunlop, who completed the same double with Ouija Board in 2004, said.

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Cobb, John (10 September 2008). "Betfair faces criticism for massive rise in charges". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009 . Retrieved 8 April 2009. A mass betting market can only be sustained by trust, and that is why these are boom years in football betting. "Its honesty and integrity puts the Premier League on a sporting level almost beyond compare, globally," he says. "Everyone knows that if Bolton play Fulham on a Monday night, it's going to be 100 per cent straight. They know that in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, China, places with a better understanding of mathematics in relation to gaming. And it puts every Premier League game on a par only with the Euros, the World Cup, or the later stages of the Champions League."