Not on any drugs so I must be an idiot. Almost as much of a Muppet as the announcer in Ladbrokes who claimed a Godolphin across the card treble when one of them was not a Godolphin horse!
If I go back to where this started (Sunday), two of those races (Deauville and Dundalk) would not have been covered in the days I worked for the bookies. Irish racing was never covered at all in the days before SIS and the only time there was any French racing was Cagnes-sur-Mer in the middle of winter when all the British racing was frozen off.
The type of “across the card” double that one would see punters attempt would be Henry Cecil’s horse in the Newbury 2:00 doubled with his horse in the Haydock 2:15. Or punters would do the same owner’s horses, e.g. the Aga Khan, but they were not doing the Newbury 2:00 and the Haydock 5:15; so time was a factor but generally within half an hour. Punters who followed a particular trainer or jockey would do their mounts in multiple bets no matter where or when they were running.
I may be an idiot but I was not enough of an idiot to back Liverpool to win 3-0 or 4-0 last night. They only won 1-0 thanks to home team officials. If Liverpool had scored the header that Bournemouth had disallowed it would have stood and it seems the changes to the offside rule have confused that linesman.
