Bookies taken for €1.5 million in Irish Horse Racing Coup
Irish Horseracing Coup
The UK Gambling Blog have unearthed a story about a €1.5 Million Irish Horseracing Sting
I have read the report and prefer the headline of Horseracing Coup personally but The UK Gambling Blog are not alone in preferring the wording of the story to include Horseracing Sting in the headline.
The Irish Examiner also reports about the €1.5 million Horseracing Coup on the Michael Grassick trained horse Bocaccio (ridden on the day by jockey Neil McCullagh) as an Irish Horseracing Sting
Irish Bookmakers Cashmans report losses of €130'000 and Paddy Power reckon they done €100'000. English bookies report heavy losses also.
Pretty much standard fare in a coup of this size the participants were not told the name of the horse (Bocaccio) until literally a few minutes before the off.
If the name of the horse Bocacchio was made known much earlier the bookies would have known too somehow and the horse would have opened up at odds of evens or something, guaranteed.
To read the whole gory details about the Bocaccio Coup I suggest you read the reports above because The Irish Examiner will sue me if I copy their words and The UK Gambling Blog have covered the story well enough ~ aside from both parties calling it a Sting.
Seems no wrongdoing took place from what I can tell and the bookies don't seem to be crying foul. They just wish the Bocacchio Coup was not pulled off so precisely.
I have been involved in Horseracing Coup's before and believe me, the bookies are onto you in a flash and you only know when the price opens up at odds on rather than 6-1 mentioned on the early morning tissue prices.
Gamblog Comment :: 1 up for the punters for once ~ hoohah ~ my heart bleeds. I just wish I were in Kerry in Ireland for a hot minute and I might have got on too.
