#BettingPeople: VICTOR CHANDLER

#BettingPeople: VICTOR CHANDLER: Victor Chandler is the third in line of a bookmaking dynasty. He inherited his father’s business aged just shy of 23 when he passed away. He did so despite not being able to work those prime pitches he left, instead embarking on a career on the rails. It didn’t take long for Victor to forge a fearless reputation as a bookmaker but also one that liked to punt too. The Victor Chandler brand grew rapidly throughout the 1980’s taking on the biggest names in the betting ring, before growing to a brand that spread globally. This is his story, as told to Simon Nott from the comfort of (one of his) own homes. Meeting Victor Chandler with Simon Nott.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (part 1 of 5)

Victor talks about the pinnacle of his career, then starts at the beginning, not really knowing what his dad did for a living, wonder lust as a young man, inheriting his father’s business but not pitches, betting as Victor Chandler on the rails and building a close-knit team that knew the game inside out.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (part 2 of 5)

How he conducted his business, form experts and people that could price races accurately, betting rather than laying horses when he spotted a mistake and dealing with shrewd money. He also talks fondly about some of the colourful characters that inhabited the ring at that time, Barney Curley, Dudley Roberts, Johnny Lights and Lulu Mendoza, plus a tipping bookie that marked a bigger hitter’s card who took a long time to forgive.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (part 3 of 5)

Terry Ramsden, one of the worse losing day’s of his career when Dawn Run won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1986 and how circumstances aligned to cost him so dearly. He also talks about Liverpool and his love of the Grand National meeting but not so much staying for the weekend and owning some good horses and the possibility of getting more in the future and liking being around horses.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (part 4 of 5)

Moving into Asia and taking on massive football punters betting in millions, taking positions to lose huge figures on the advice of Tony Bloom, meeting the guy who claimed to have ‘switched the lights off’, the ‘Longchamp Three’ and their quizzing by French police, why Victor was no longer welcome to have a box there and the Triads not being overly happy that Victor had started operations in Hong Kong and paying their office a visit.

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VICTOR CHANDLER (part 5 of 5)

Does he watch a match when he stands to lose a fortune, he talks about his own personal betting, gambling’s toxic reputation, betting in Africa, how his teenage sounds keep him young, if he misses being on the rails and what advice he’d give himself when he was just starting out.

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VICTOR CHANDLER #BettingPeople PODCAST

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