Comments on: Infamy infamy… http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html Betfair's Andrew Black on Horse Racing, Betting, Betfair and Random Musings Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sandracer http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html/comment-page-1#comment-507 Sandracer Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:40:43 +0000 http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html#comment-507 Betfair have helped open up the thing. The paper trail is followable now. Good for racing. Betfair have helped open up the thing.
The paper trail is followable now.
Good for racing.

]]> By: Philip Harfleet http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html/comment-page-1#comment-506 Philip Harfleet Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:21:51 +0000 http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html#comment-506 Bookmaking has now become "universal" in that I, and any other individual, can "lay" horses. It has opened the game up to all and sundry. No licence is required, nor do you have to be a "fit and proper person" to get involved with the new form of betting. It therefore seems probable that certain individuals or syndicates can profit from laying horses for large sums on any horse, after the rider has been *persuaded* to fall out of the side door, or challenge the leader "just too late" and so on. Why somebody like Fallon would risk involvement is beyond me. Other lesser mortals might succumb to this easy money temptation and betting exchange systems must make this type of fraud easier to commit. Bookmaking has now become “universal” in that I, and any other individual, can “lay” horses. It has opened the game up to all and sundry. No licence is required, nor do you have to be a “fit and proper person” to get involved with the new form of betting.

It therefore seems probable that certain individuals or syndicates can profit from laying horses for large sums on any horse, after the rider has been *persuaded* to fall out of the side door, or challenge the leader “just too late” and so on.

Why somebody like Fallon would risk involvement is beyond me. Other lesser mortals might succumb to this easy money temptation and betting exchange systems must make this type of fraud easier to commit.

]]> By: Ray Jay http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html/comment-page-1#comment-505 Ray Jay Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:47:06 +0000 http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/infamy-infamy.html#comment-505 No way is it over. Fallon has reportedly failed a drugs test in France (six month ban last time). And I gather that the evidence in court was that he broke the rules of racing by using unregistered phones in the weighing room and consorting with a warned off person. More fireworks yet to come I reckon. No way is it over. Fallon has reportedly failed a drugs test in France (six month ban last time). And I gather that the evidence in court was that he broke the rules of racing by using unregistered phones in the weighing room and consorting with a warned off person. More fireworks yet to come I reckon.

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