29th May 2009, 03:15 PM
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Here's one a mate of mine used to use in a consortium.
They used to travel all over Victoria to the dog tracks, but there's too many problems and the prices are ridiculous.
He used to back the favourite at the dogs until a winner.
He made money for quite a time martingaling his bets, as almost every dog meet had a favourite win.
I once went with him and he was up to race seven and the favourite was $1.50 and went up with the lids.
I've never seen someone turn purple before.
It's doomed because of the prices, so we nutted out favourite but must be evens or better.
It wasn't for me, huge stakes to win a tiny percentage.
He was full of bravado when the favourite got up in the first or second races and he had a nice dinner and bottle of wine, but the look on his face that day, put me off it forever.
Today, he sells life insurance.
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