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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1960.
Concluding China Mail's series on men who win and lose fortunes on racing
RING NEW!
MASTER-MINDS OF THE RING
The great gambling dictator. ... BUT EVEN
HE TUMBLED IN THE END
By CLÍVE GRAHÁM
a
The whole structure and complexion of racecourse betting
the altered irrevocably with
middle advent, in the 'thirties, of Harry "Snouty" Parker. One of six sons of an East End of London cabinet-maker,
Russian immigrant, he had learned his bookmaking trade at greyhound racing, and when I first saw him, one day at Newmarket, I remember thinking that he looked not unlike an overfed' and agitated eagle,
He was associated them wh stumpy ile Syd Bods worth. who sel to 10 on the rails for the Midlands fm Mealings and Green.
WAN not ling before "Sneuly" aequired a match anong the radis bookmakers, and sat up in his own right.
His booming, stentorian voler could be easily reengnised above all the other.
Ife Introduced a new tech. nique into horse racing, for he was hacker and bookmaker combined.
'Knockout'
Parker, when betting at "the dogs." had evolved a method in his dual caparity of hacker and bookmaker which bewildered his rivals, and which he continued to use with ruzing dair and sirccess when he transferred his
the
This horses business tra method has become known "The Knockout."
Parker, through his many contacts and sourres of informa- tion, wrld hear of a dog which
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He went out to get the com- mission trade with several of the leading stables, and was able to return to the aners and trainers concernz: consistently more The history of a great favourable odds than they would number of sports is in- have received from the profes- variably coloured by facts sonal backers.
und fiction and in this author REX LAWRENCE, after pains taking research, has ceeded in sorting out what are the true facts and what is merely fiction in
each
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"Snouty" was every wh as series the quick at gures Hanou, l he was only half the and of "Old England." He had ferte, imagmative brain, a sense of ruthlessness, and, per- haps more important still, the ability
and mord To keep secret.
H
SUC-
case, to give readers an au- In spite of his noisiness, his thoritative account of the outward air of tataboyance, his origin and the progress
bottle of wine" for Ma
for the different branches (champagne. of Pourse) breakfast, be operated under a sports throughout the years.
Laste
veil of mystery.
of
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was considered an absolute cer- tan winner. As a backer, he would invest hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pounds on this dor with office bookmakers. Noting that it would start at short odds and that their losses, conse- heavy, yuently, would not be they would usually be content in hold this bet.
Parker, from his book- makers stand on the track,
would stridently lengthen the old, sometimes fram evens to 1 or more.
This more placed backers and fellow-bookmakers alike in quandary. "Is Snouty operating Ket better In this way in order
odds for his own bri, or has he heard that there is something miss and he is therefore - tempting to fake as much monee for it as possible?" they won-
ttered.
Quandary
reason
They had good
for puzzlement. Parker was an 28- mixer, and he would murste sometimes que course, sometimes the other, wilk only the one man, himself, to know the coreet
answer.
In order to fulfil commissions for owners and trainers when he transferred his attentions to accounts the Turf, he opened with bookmaking lims all over England, sometimes placing as many as a hundred bets for the ccanparatively innocuous saam of
fiver each way.
He
SHOUTY PARKER—right—with his clark.
the blower," the telephonie link
also acquired control of tempting to organise the results of races, in arillon to the which connects the SP. book makers' offices with their agents working on the rave-course,
So, within a remarkably short time, he had the whole racing game buttoned up and baluneed in the palm of his
hand,
Paddy's Sister is out of the 1,000 Guineas
Büb. Apr, 13. Paddy's Slater, Irish y who has been a strong fancy for the 1,000 Guiness at New- market, on April 20. broke
down al exercise today and is unlikely to run ázato,
She has ជ badly sprained fcflock.
The Ally, owned by Mrs Mar-
got Multien, was unbeaten in Ave races In England and Ireland last season.
Her victories In England were scored in some of the country's Frost Important two-year-old events the Glmernek Stakes ut York, Champagne Stokes at Doncaster And Queen Mary Slakes at Royal Ascot.
After It had been announced that she had broken down, a Tending London bookniker quoted the French-trained filly Never του Late #5 clear Invourite for the 1,000 Guineas l2 10 1.-China Mall Special.
slaving prices, he over-reached SCOTTISH SOCCER himself.
After disclosures in a civil court action which revealed the nature of his contacts with the authorities barred him from number of prominent jockeys,
the racecourse,
He si indulged his passion [or gambilug by hotting private cliemin-de-fer parties in London but he died in the wor years before the age of 50.
RESULTS
London, Apr. 13. Results of tonight's Scottish; frothall malehes were:
Division I
Alloa 4. Cowdenbeath 2. Dumbarton 4. Eust Fife 2 Falkirk 2, Albion Rovers 1. Queen's Park 2, Forfar
won the Knock-out technique Rister,
technique
He brought off one of the greatest enups of this century when Quartier Mare 1040 Lincolnshire Handicap: The
The "knockout" winner was, somewhat ironically, owned by Mrs Arthur Bendir, which he devised is still being whose husband
London's used on our racecourses by one leading West-End firm of Lad- or two lune practitioners. don's leading West-End firm of Ladbrokes, which has since been taken over by "Sneuty's" younger brother, Maxle Parker.
Tan
He was at the outbreak of the Second World War, the un- disputed dictator of Tattersalls" Ring. But when he set about at
Four D. Jones
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THE SHIP AND HER CARGO ARE UNDER WAY
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By Paul Norria
So when, during this coming reason, a favourite comes in at į unexpectedly generous odds, your thanks may be
due to this fantasile betting wizard who so national nearly converted the sport of horse-racing into his own private monopoly.-London Express Service.
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