Jockeypedia
Chris Pitt meets the founder of a unique website THE AD FREE, no log-in required, Jockeypedia website celebrates its second birthday in June. Containing a constantly growing collection of over 1,300...
View ArticleRossy Brothers – established 1929
At 69, racecourse bookmaker Ken Walsh reckons he’s in the process of winding down, although to see him in action at his local track, Beverley, one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. His Rossy...
View ArticleGordon Moody introduces programme for women problem gamblers
THE GORDON MOODY Association, which provides treatment for problem gamblers, has introduced a new programme for women with gambling addiction. Founded in 1971, GMA offers residential treatment...
View ArticleSP Racing a bit of Leicester in Wales
It feels a touch incongruous to observe the fox’s head from Leicester City FC’s logo woven into the sign above a mid-Wales bookmaker’s shop. Stranger still to step inside and find assorted items of...
View ArticleRiband Racing
In a corner of the shop at Southampton independent Riband Racing stood five stacked boxes of soon-to-be-installed LED screens. The logo on them proclaimed ‘LG: Life’s good’. Not always, it isn’t. Pete...
View ArticleDominic Ford’s varied roles
In the first of a two part feature Chris Pitt talks with Dominic Ford, founder of Roar! Betting As CEO of London bookmakers Roar! Betting, vice chairman of the ABB Council and, since January this year,...
View ArticleBambury Bookmakers
This is Arkle country. The town of Ashbourne, Co. Meath, sits just a couple of miles north-west of Kilsallaghan, where Tom Dreaper trained the greatest steeplechaser of the twentieth century. Make that...
View ArticleToals Bookmakers
Toals’ Belfast shop It’s big, it’s very big; at 7,600 square feet – 7,588 to be precise – it’s the largest betting shop in the UK. Located in the former passport office on Belfast’s High Street, Toals...
View ArticleDominic Ford on Bags and the ABB
In the second of a two-part feature, Chris Pitt talks with Dominic Ford about his roles as Bags chairman and vice chairman of the ABB Council. DOMINIC FORD IS a busy man, juggling his roles as chairman...
View ArticleGreenhill Racing
“My wife may not agree but I now treat the off-course bookmaking business as a hobby,” says Chris Troise, owner of Norfolk one-shop independent Greenhill Racing. A hobby it may be, but as a chartered...
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