Ripping Gambling Yarns: Tales of a Misspent Youth

Ripping Gambling Yarns: Tales of a Misspent Youth
ISBN-10
1901100685
ISBN-13
9781901100686
Category
Gamblers
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2001
Author
Michael Church

Description

This is a collection of short autobiographical stories from the Racing Post's Special Projects Manager, highlighting his mis-spent youth at the race-track; as a young man he could never remember school or work interfering with the chance of attending a good race meeting or landing a betting coup.

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