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Odds and ends
I SAW the request for ‘nuggets of nostalgia’ and it triggered off some of my own memories which I offer for your interest.
My father put my first bet on. 2/6d on Babur in the 1957 Lincoln Handicap. Eddie Hide rode it to win at 25/1. I was hooked on betting from the age of 12!
By the time the 1960s arrived postal tipsters and sellers of ‘wi...