#BettingPeople: DAVID SMALLEY

#BettingPeople:David Smalley worked in academia and horseracing in tandem, in racing as a Starting Price Reporter and Columnist. He’s just written a book on his life ‘A Head Full Of Jolly Robins’. In this interview he talks about his varied life in ‘the game’.

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DAVID SMALLEY (part 1 of 4)

David talks about his unusual early involvement with greyhounds, racing them to a train rather than on a track and how initial lack of cooperation from railway workers was influenced by the flash of hard cash.

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DAVID SMALLEY (part 2 of 4)

David talks about entertaining Bob Hope at the races and helping him find a few winners, explaining the laws of probability to a casino owner and hanging out in the Colony Club, Bing Crosby and the odd gangster.

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DAVID SMALLEY (part 3 of 4)

David talks about his start in the world of on-course betting in his role as Starting Price reporter. The art of bidding up horses after sellers, Ted Gladson and other characters of the turf.

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DAVID SMALLEY (part 4 of 4)

David talks about his book ‘A Head Full Of Jolly Robins – This Man Has No Class’, writing his column ‘Smalley’s People’ in the Raceform Handicap Book, doing his money on the last leg of Frankie’s Magnificent Seven and more.

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DAVID SMALLEY #BettingPeople PODCAST