The little horse duly won on the day he was supposed to and any fears I harboured about training for this mega gambler had already melted away. Findlay surrendered before making that mistake and, “since then, [tracks at] Wimbledon and Hall Green closed. The only book that will give you a hangover' Chris Evans Breakfast Show --- The hilarious, no holds barred autobiography from sporting legend and broadcaster Alan Brazil. Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. So it proved, Denman won by 17 lengths, and if Christian Williams had pushed him out, it would have been 70.

By that I mean it's not 'joined up', you sometimes have to guess who or what the author is actually talking about. Did it change because you stood on glass and shouldn’t have played or someone heard you had a terrible headache? His late instincts were right: Gullible Gordon lost, yet Findlay lost much more in this scenario than he would have had his horse won. If I’d have done what everyone else usually does in first class, which is going on the piss, drinking the best part of two bottles of wine and having to use the toilet five times, the leak would have happened much earlier and the plane would surely have gone down. Steeplechasing has a good point, the really successful professional gamblers I know, tend to be more laid back characters, not overly exitable.He mentions Hove dogs a few times, what shines through is his absolute love of Greyhound Racing, what that man doesn’t know about dog racing almost certainly isn’t worth knowing. But there is a seriousness at the book’s heart, for, beyond opening with a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Gambler, it uncovers Findlay’s consuming defeats and depression.

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