SUMMARY
He left school at 16 and now bets millions of dollars
THEY’RE JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY!
In just over 40 years on the punt I have read many articles about the flamboyant punters of the past.
Felipe Ysmael and Eddie Birchley, aka The Fireman, are two that come to mind immediately in my time in horseracing since the late 1960s. The amounts they bet when in full swing were astronomical and you would wonder if they were psychotic, like Dostoevsky’s “The Gambler”, or were they just men who believed in themselves and bet accordingly?
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