legendary bookie dies

JP MCMANUS, whose exchanges with bookmaker Freddie Williams at the Cheltenham Festival have become the stuff of legend, on Sunday led the tributes to the fearless on-course layer who died at his Ayrshire homeon Saturday night. He was 65.

Williams, widely known as “Fearless Freddie”, suffered a fatal heart attack after returning home from betting at Glasgow's Shawfield greyhound stadium having also stood at Ayr races during the afternoon. A workaholic, he was on duty at Musselburgh on Friday after which he hired a helicopter to be at Ayr that night.

Williams underwent a quadruple heart by-pass in 1998, a few months before paying £90,000 for the No 2 pitch at Cheltenham to realise what had been a life-long ambition to bet at Prestbury Park.







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Thought that you were in Vegas...your personal supersonic jet grounded? or have you visa problems?

morilihochili Wrote:

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> Thought that you were in Vegas...your personal
> supersonic jet grounded? or have you visa
> problems?


needing someone to carry ma bags ,you fancy it?

R.I.P "Fearless Freddie", a TRUE BOOKIE!

refused me a £100 @ 6/1 at musselburgh(winner)the next week hes taking £100k bets at cheltenham... rip

You say your are going to be in Vegas for 5 weeks...you got high hopes of winning..careful..many an over confident player has come back days after departing with his proverbial tail between his legs.

Not positive..realistic. Have you seen those American boys bluff? They are masters at work..where there is money of that magnitude at stake they are all well up for it. Hibernia will be taken by all the razmatazz of Vegas, trust me I have first hand experiance.

well i hope razzamatazz is blonde

Be careful of the blondes..plenty of trannies roaming around.

Good luck Robert, give them carrots. Are you taking no2son with you ? Keep us updated on the tournament progress.

morilihochili Wrote:

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> Be careful of the blondes..plenty of trannies
> roaming around.


how did you tell?

knew freddie well legendary layer didnt get the name fearless freddie for nothing.

scottish bookies all have a reputation for fearless laying first bags (bookmakers afternoon greyhound service) at powderhall ladbrokes rep approached douglas somers (bookmaker) with £800 pound bet looking to change the price douglas never moved on seeing this ladbrokes rep placed another £800 pound bet at this douglas scrubbed his board and changed the price from 7/2 to 4/1 the ladbrokes man just walked away shaking his head