REMARKABLE BET
£5 a Week for Life to Half-a-crown AN UNEXPECTED WIN (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. April 12, 11 p.m.) London, April 11. Tattersall’s Committee has settled one of the strangest bets ever made in Britain. A bookmaker offered £5 a week for life to half-a-crown against a horse named Gold Meter. A v backer aged thirty-one took the bet and the horse won. The resultant annuity necessitated an outlay of £5OOO. Tattersall’s Committee, however, ordered the bookmaker to pay £5 a week for only one year.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 9
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87REMARKABLE BET Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 169, 13 April 1932, Page 9
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