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Coming from a family who owned and raced greyhounds, worked as bookies runners and bookmakers (turf accounts when we felt posh!) and progressed to the Montague chain of betting shops - the Saturday afternoon punt was nothing new to me.
I grew up in the 1950s surrounded by dog tracks in Charlton, Catford and New Cross and a betting shop on every st...

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