![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
Great Aust. Gamble 84: [H]e got back those losses with interest when ace lightweight jockey E. Gorry got her up to take both the Spring Handicap and the Free Handicap .at ace, adj.
Great Aust. Gamble 84: [H]e got back those losses with interest when ace lightweight jockey E. Gorry got her up to take both the Spring Handicap and the Free Handicap . Great Aust. Gamble 23: He backed up again in 1953 when Carioca took the Sydney Cup [ibid.] 59: numerous shrewd-faced little ragamuffins who kept backing up for another collect as long as the pay-out went on.at back up, v.2
Great Aust. Gamble 38: But to punters [...] a greater feat than Peter Pan’s victory was that of Betting Billy in ‘putting the cleaner through the bag boys’ to the tune of a cool £200,000.at bag-boy (n.) under bag, n.1
Great Aust. Gamble 67: Since the first Australian bookmaker raucously shouted the odds, the lure of betting and the eternal struggle by the punter to beat the man with the bag has probably drawn more crowds [...] than all the champion thoroughbreds who have done the racing.at man with the bag (n.) under bag, n.1
Great Aus. Gamble 140: At the end of the day Mr. Wilson, who had kept betting and doubling up, had accumulated liabilities of £2000 with the bagman.at bagman, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 14: It had been built from a bank of seven pounds ten shillings with which he arrived on the course [ibid.] 106: Once he built up a bank of more than £7000.at bank, n.1
Great Aust. Gamble 155: [A] poverty-stricken and battling track tout who wasn’t even allowed on Randwick course .at battle, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 124: [I]t is primarily a sport for ‘battlers’ who otherwise would never get the chance to know the thrills that come to a rich and successful racehorse owner.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 25: ‘The only difference between a top trainer and a battler is a good horse’.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 65: [I]f Sir Charles had been pining for an heir, you can bet your bottom dollar that the author did not forget.at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 157: In a letter to hundreds of Melbourne punters he claimed to have ‘a bird’ for the Epsom Handicap.at bird, n.5
Great Aust. Gamble 51: ‘The next innings you got a blob’.at blob, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 117: The biggest postwar sensation at Stawell occurred in 1947 with a ‘boilover’.at boilover (n.) under boil, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 126: [A] week or two later, when at a much more attractive price for those ‘in the know’, the dog would show all its old form and bolt in.at bolt in (v.) under bolt, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 45: The books had become suspicious, so we got three trusted friends and sent them into the ring with the money.at book, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 24: [H]e had a battery of telephones, and he could reach 60 off-course bookies in five minutes.at bookie, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 147: Stokes died in harness at his desk in one of his lucrative gambling schools he had ‘bossed’ for about 40 years.at boss, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 100: Each school is controlled by at least one ring-keeper or ‘boxer’.at boxer, n.2
Great Aust. Gamble 55: [I]ncidents such as the day an urger pulled him up at Flemington and blandly asked him for a ‘brick’. Considering £10 a bit rich, Ossie pulled a pound note from his pocket and held it out.at brick, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 100: The ‘guts’ is sometimes called the ‘centre’.at centre, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 93: [of a two-up school] The school then had a permanent staff of at least 40 - cockatoos, ring-keepers, chuckers-out, doormen, cleaners, clerks and cashiers.at chucker-out, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 17: [H]is successful £200,000 plunge on Purser in the 1924 Caulfield Cup [...] was reputed to be the biggest single turf clean-up Australia has known.at clean-up, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 23: Fred Angles cleaned up again on Bernborough [ibid.] 79: [N]ot all Barney Allen’s horses got beaten. On many he cleaned up large sums.at clean up, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 38: But to punters [...] a greater feat than Peter Pan’s victory was that of Betting Billy in ‘putting the cleaner through the bag boys’ to the tune of a cool £200,000.at put the cleaner through (v.) under cleaner, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 81: Then he liked to step in and ‘collar the market,’ backing fancied horses down to prohibitive odds.at collar, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 22: [A] lucky £10,000 collect on a winning Cups’ double.at collect, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 154: These people [...] having at some time or other answered a tipster’s advertisement or original luring ‘come-on letter’.at come-on, n.
Great Aust. Gamble 38: [A]s a trainer he was famed for his ability to resurrect crocks .at crock, n.2
Great Aust. Gamble 148: ‘The Turk’ [...] was ‘cut-in’ on the gambling profits for ‘strong-arm’ protection.at cut in, v.
Great Aust. Gamble 53: Skelton used to say that [...] he backed more ‘dead ’uns’ than any other man who went on a racecourse.at dead one, n.
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