@Walter Hinteler,
Did you guys see Channel Four's Scoop Six. There were five tickets going on the last leg. A nice 6 furlong handicap with 20 odd runners. For £1,030,000 no less. 5 scenes of domestic bliss on fire and nearly half an hour to think about it. Time to alert friends and neighbours and relatives. They would be pretty warm from surviving the 5th leg which 40 others didn't.
You toss a spare £ coin on to the betting office counter with your six selections without hardly a thought and you end up in a nightmare half hour. Five of them. Council tenants mainly. Mum, dad, kids don't know what to do with themselves so Mum makes a cup of tea to help watch through the build up to the race. One of them is informed by the commentator that he has little chance because his horse is drawn on the unfavoured side of the track. But still- you never know.
The rest of us watch glassy-eyed. Well not me actually. I'm imagining the 5 scenes.
The lids go up and the field splits into two groups and charges towards the judge. When it gets there 4 of our 5 housholds are on a four-way head bobber which requires a camera to decide. Phew!!!
No consolation prizes. Sport with real meat.
What about that 100 metres eh? If you missed that what can anybody say?
un-beeeeeelievable
