Bookmakers Welsh On Syndicate

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 13

Bookmakers Welsh On Syndicate

(N Z. Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, July 1.

British police have finished their investigation into yesterday’s attempted £10,000,000 greyhound betting coup.

Associated Press says the implication is that the coup was legal.

Britain’s off-course bookmakers, however, have refused to pay out on the race, and all bets will be refunded.

In a prepared statement, a spokesman for the bookmakers said there had been an attempt to defraud bookmakers throughout the country.

The coup threatened hundreds of small-time bookmakers with bankruptcy. Its full extent may not be known until all postal bets have been counted. The coup was made on an obscure dog racing track at Dagenham, in Essex, by a syndicate marshalling scores of men. About 50 men arrived at the track as betting started

for the 4.5 p.m. race, marched up to the totalisator windows and monopolised them till the event started. Other betters were shoved aside and could not get their money on. The syndicate piled its money on three of the six entries.

Only one person at the track held a winning quinella ticket, which paid £987 Ils 9d for a 2s stake. Throughout the afternoon, other members of the syndicate piled money on the winning combination at betting shops t’ roughout London. (Earlier Report Page 4)