Hard hitters in the punting stakes

In 1992 an associate of mine had a horse called Father Hayes,well let me correct myself.
He's dad owned it,man named Anthony Gleeson.It was trained by Will Pearce.Now Pearce had terrible financial worries and was deep in the mire.
They planned a coup at least 12 months prior to it running at Sandown Park,now Gleeson had already landed a monster punt with a horse called
Rotherfield Greys,i think it won The Schweppes Sprint or The Big sprint at Glorious Goodwood,so he knew what he was doing.
It was on a Friday,and our instructions were to place ew bets at every bookmakers on The Uxbridge Road from Southall into Acton.
Father Hayes was a 25/1 chance,so the bets were around £30 ew,to keep it under the grand payout.I think in those days,anything over a grand was phoned through to head office.Me and he's son managed to hit the price at more than 20 shops.
The son told me there was at least another 50 like us doing the same thing,when it went in a bit in price,Mr Gleeson started having large bets on
he's own accounts over the phone.
By early afternoon,Father Hayes was 5/2.With a nice ticket in my pocket,we went to Sandown Park to watch it run.
It drifted out to 4/1 come race time,but it hit the front from the start and lead the whole way in a mile and half Handicapp,winning by 3 lengths.
The jockey was Dandy Nicholls and when he hit the line,he was out of the stirrups giving it big celebration.
Nicholls used the money to start training,Father Hayes never won another race,Gleeson was counting the money.
I think the story is on a betfair forum..The shocking part though,was 2 or 3 days later the trainer put a shotgun to he's head and pulled the trigger.
Bobby Beasley took over the training,but the fairy tale was soured by poor Pearces desperate state of mind.

Titch Wrote:

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> > Nobody has mentioned another big
> > punter.....marlon
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> > One year on the 31st december at greyville in
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> > last race of the night and the last race of the
> > year Marlon had a horse running
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> > Sydney something or other. I cant remember the
> > name..
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> > I think the money poured on from 9/2 to evens
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> > won on its coconut making the night that much
> > sweeter....
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> Was at the course 6 or 7 years ago with Marlon and
> Warren Zackey when a horse of his won, Sonic
> Gang...opened 6/1 and started in double figures,
> how they managed it im not sure but they got the
> absolute lot without shortening the horse and took
> massive doubles with a Tarry rocket that striker
> won with later on in the day... also remember the
> 2 of them catching a huge pick 6 when they
> bankered a horse of Roy Meaker's at Clairwood that
> was a "gin strike" and won a feature at 16/1..

I bought Sonic Gang from Marlon when he imported it, but when my business went down in 2009 I did own some money on the horse so unfortunately I had to give it back as I could no longer afford it, I think the horse won 5 races, when I bought the horse from Marlon he told me that it will win 5 races.
I actually bought 4 horses from him and the only other one that won was Gentle Star.
I have the utmost respect for Marlon he has always treated me with respect even when I could not keep my commitment to him due to my situation. I must also mention the advise he some times gave me was always spot on, he surely knows his sport
Every year over Christmas he would have a present delivered to my home via courier. Unfortunately I lost his number when my cell phone was stolen would like to have his number if anyone can perhaps PM me with that..

Marlon bought my cubicle in Bosman st but it was still in my name for a while when he was operating and it was a good cure for constipation for me and toontony ()

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> bignic i meet aubrey in nellspruit many year ago
> what the nice man. i go into the bookie there and
> he is punt there, i meet the owners of the place
> hes name is uli hes partner is andre is clear
> aubrey is the big client we are treat like the
> royalty. for me these visit were very interesting
> these bookies are the guy that win the open bet
> court case and they tell me how poor was phumelela
> lawyer in the trial. later we meet up again at
> vaal where he has horse with barend botes and we
> go for breakfast at country butchery. for many
> year after these i get sms from aubrey about hes
> horse. RIP big guy.

before they went there Uli was the bookie in Bronkhorstspruit, was always treated with respect, , those days he head a few big punters Prinsloo's and the van Rensburg's (they had horses with Jan Breedt who was training down the road at Bapsfontein) they used to walk in there with briefcases of money went to his office and a short while later you will notice a horse is starting to short then we now the money is on and we follow they seldom missed

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> Marlon bought my cubicle in Bosman st but it was
> still in my name for a while when he was operating
> and it was a good cure for constipation for me and
> toontony ()


me and my mates table were we used to sit was right in front of his cubicle, man some big bets were struck there, and those days sports betting was not so big but he was often watching a game, cricket rugby, mainly an apparently was going big on those games

Tommy_Hotspur Wrote:

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> Raymond Solomon was up there. Also the Guy from
> randburg tarts. His name escapes me. Never
> knocked anybody back.
> Another punter that has stood the test of time is
> Greg Sadie.


Ricky Sinn??

Titch re malakka

do you no talk of the mad bruce lee chinaman RICKY SIN????? now that guy i can tell you the story about and all of them are GOOD (tu)

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> Titch re malakka
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> do you no talk of the mad bruce lee chinaman RICKY
> SIN????? now that guy i can tell you the story
> about and all of them are GOOD (tu)

correct...i changed it

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> > Raymond Solomon was up there. Also the Guy from
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> > knocked anybody back.
> > Another punter that has stood the test of time
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> > Greg Sadie.
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> Ricky Sinn??


Yeah that's him......Never knocked anyone back. I came through and asked for 100k of a horse that was evens.....he said, 12/10 you got a bet. You want more? We took more....i said, what is the price now? He said 13/10 you want more?????

Crazy guy

Tommy_Hotspur Wrote:

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> > > Raymond Solomon was up there. Also the Guy
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> > > randburg tarts. His name escapes me. Never
> > > knocked anybody back.
> > > Another punter that has stood the test of
> time
> > is
> > > Greg Sadie.
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> > Ricky Sinn??
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> Yeah that's him......Never knocked anyone back. I
> came through and asked for 100k of a horse that
> was evens.....he said, 12/10 you got a bet. You
> want more? We took more....i said, what is the
> price now? He said 13/10 you want more?????
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> Crazy guy

At least that man understood there's no certanties

When we want 5k on bud boy some of these okes start shitting in their briefs

Was talking to a friend yesterday and he mentioned a name to me....Bill Graham.

I am not familiar with him, but if anyone knows....was he a big hitter?

He was a preacher man