17:32Relief washed through the Ascot betting ring as Frankie Dettori and Turgenev were overhauled close home by the 28-1 shot Biometric. Among the most relieved was Robert Speechley, taking bets as Posh Bookmakers, who owns the S&D Bookmakers firm that has 10 shops around Peterborough. “The liabilities in those shops [if Dettori had kept winning] was a quarter of a million pounds,” Speechley said. Otherwise, there’s no chance Stradivarius would have gone off at even money, it would have been 4-7 or something like that. “These days, they’re not laying the multiples, they’re playing the exchanges, and everybody that’s here, they’re all casual investors.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 09:35 UTC