#BettingPeople: TERRY ALLEN

#BettingPeople: Terry Allen is an ex-Jockey Club Betting Intelligence Officer, SP Returner and SP Validator who has also clerked for on-course bookmakers, run betting shops worked as a Pontins Bluecoat and once appeared as a dancer on Ready Stardy Go and shared a dressing room with The Kinks. In this three-part interview, he talks about his career.

TERRY ALLEN Part 1 of 3

Terry talks about his brush with fame in the 1960’s sharing a stage and dressing room with pop legends of the 1960’s, working as a settler in a betting shop, and working on course at greyhound flapping tracks, including Glastonbury.

TERRY ALLEN Part 2 of 3

Terry talks about how he got the job as Jockey Club Betting Intelligence officer and what that job entailed, the halcyon days of the betting ring and how things were back in the day.

TERRY ALLEN Part 3 of 3

Terry talks about why he moved from betting intelligence to SP returner, how it worked in days of the ‘huddle’ stories of ‘Knock Outs’, how fair the system was, the job of an SP validator being pensioned off and his sporting achievements.