It was always a rollercoaster ride - at that Festival, Victor had less than a £50,000 profit to share with his staff, whereas at Royal Ascot in 1999, they cleared a million profit.īut win or lose, Victor - from a line of famous bookies - were shouted or swore. The next day, he lost just shy of £110,000 on the Queen Mother Champion Chase. JP McManus (middle) is also a legend of the Cheltenham Festival (Image: Getty Images) Victor - who described McManus as having “a smile like Mother Theresa and the brain of Al Capone” - took £100,000 at 7-2 and when it romped home, faced a £350,000 payout. In 1998, the year of Istabraq’s first tilt at the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, his owner McManus had attempted to place a £300,000 bet on him. Victor was one of the few bookies prepared to look these gamblers in the eye and not flinch.
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There was Barney Curley, a hero to punters on both sides of the Atlantic and there was Noel Furlong, a carpet dealer and self-made millionaire who won the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in 1999.Īnd then there was JP McManus, the Sundance Kid of racing legend, domiciled not only at Kilmallock in County Limerick but also in Switzerland and Barbados. Victor’s client list comprised many of the top owners and trainers in racing but he also laid bets to an eclectic mix of recreational gamblers, from painters such as Freud and Francis Bacon, to football managers, film producers and restaurant owners.īut at Cheltenham, the core of his business still featured a small group of big-hitting Irishmen. One day, he was the bon vivant and old Soho bohemian with a fund of fabulous stories about the artist Lucian Freud, the next he was sponsoring a big race at Ascot, the day after, he was being accused of laundering money for the drug smuggler and gangster Brian Wright.Ībove all else, though, Victor Chandler was a gambler. Since 1999, the new company Victor Chandler International had revolutionised the UK gambling market by offering tax-free wagering online and by phone in a multitude of different languages, from English to Chinese and from euros to yen.īut no matter how big or far-flung his interests had become, the Cheltenham Festival remained the most important date in Victor’s calendar.
In the authorised biography, Victor Chandler: Put Your Life On It - released in paperback last Thursday - author Jamie Reid details some of the infamous skirmishes between McManus and Chandler and recounts the days when the Festival betting ring was no place for the faint-hearted. There is no more legendary punter than JP McManus - the Irish owner who will have a host of runners over the next four days - and no more legendary bookie than Victor Chandler. The application allows quality time parent - child, this is an opportunity to encourage and make my child tell the story, instead of reading the child can write a story together and create a story before sleeping.That is the amount expected to be wagered on races at this year’s Cheltenham Festival, a fair portion of it online.īut there was a time when the real action was in the ring, legendary punters armed with “bricks of £50 notes as ammunition” doing battle with legendary bookmakers. The work can be sent at the touch of a button and share on Facebook or YouTube, or send email. The application allows for easy and accessible to paint or take pictures to save them sequentially structured, read and recorded his own story in their voices and create a sequence of images from the film makers. Photo Gallery paintings are kept personal and optionally create a story.
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