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'I bet on 14 races from Cheltenham and Hexham and I lost on 12 of them. I won a round of drinks on the other two'
In our twice-weekly series, Lords Of The Ring, we go around Britain and Ireland gaining insight from on-course bookmakers about life in the 'jungle'. Our latest instalment takes us to Ripon.
Name: Mike Eckley (in the ring under Mick Walsh)
Age: 63
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- 'I had backed it at 45-1, and ended up winning about €10,000 on the day!'
- 'Everything fell right one day - they bet 11-10 each of two in the last and both got beaten. I won £8,500, including £5,000 on the last'
- 'One day at Cheltenham in the 1990s I won £36,000. We had some Irishmen betting crazy amounts in Euros - they couldn't back a winner all afternoon'
- 'The likes of Thistlecrack were in the race and I thought, 'This can't win'. I did about £2,500 that day'
- 'The worst day was at the Cheltenham Festival when Ruby Walsh fired in three favourites - we did our bollocks'
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- 'I had backed it at 45-1, and ended up winning about €10,000 on the day!'
- 'Everything fell right one day - they bet 11-10 each of two in the last and both got beaten. I won £8,500, including £5,000 on the last'
- 'One day at Cheltenham in the 1990s I won £36,000. We had some Irishmen betting crazy amounts in Euros - they couldn't back a winner all afternoon'
- 'The likes of Thistlecrack were in the race and I thought, 'This can't win'. I did about £2,500 that day'
- 'The worst day was at the Cheltenham Festival when Ruby Walsh fired in three favourites - we did our bollocks'