Originally Posted by
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When I started rambling above, I think I was influenced by recently reading Les Carlyon's book on Bart, The Master
"But racing is a pecluliar sport in which the hustle of the punt and a sense of the romantic sit in the same room and never reconcile themselves, one to the other. The punt is about the search for fast money, a game of wits that sometimes wears grubby clothes. If that was all racing was about, betting on numbers, the sport would be little different from those casino halls where players sit hypnotised by a machine that flashes bright lights and sometimes rewards with a clatter of coins. It wouldn't be a sport, just gambling. But as gifted American sports writer Joe Palmer once observed, betting is three-quarters, maybe seven-eighths, of the reason people go to the track."
The man can write