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Barnfred 55 said:
Nothing at stake but our pride 😀
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I’ll go with that.

However I do owe you an apology, as I recall that I have placed a horse bet on two occasions. Some 50 years ago my wife was the manager of a betting office and I used to pick her up each night while she cashed up etc. Anyway this one night I was in there with quite a lot of sad looking people so decided to bet on a horse, it was called Proper Jet and was at 14-1. It won and of course I was getting some dirty looks. The second time my sister had a friend who owned a horse racing at Haydock Park and my wife and I were invited to attend. So having been given the appropriate badges we parked in the owners enclosure and we took the lift up to the second or third floor where their box was. I’d prepared the bets the night before and there was a private bookies outside the box who took our bets even though one of the races had actually started. The first horse won, but the night ended up either even or slightly ahead. The box was fabulous with food and drink, but really all my wife and I wanted was to go down and see the horses as they got into the winners enclosure. I’ve been to one other racecourse at Uttoxeter where I was invited by Marstons the brewers and I took my then 5/6 year old granddaughter, the two of us had a great day but no bets were placed, just being with the horses did it for us…..
 
peteblue said:
I’ll go with that.

However I do owe you an apology, as I recall that I have placed a horse bet on two occasions. Some 50 years ago my wife was the manager of a betting office and I used to pick her up each night while she cashed up etc. Anyway this one night I was in there with quite a lot of sad looking people so decided to bet on a horse, it was called Proper Jet and was at 14-1. It won and of course I was getting some dirty looks. The second time my sister had a friend who owned a horse racing at Haydock Park and my wife and I were invited to attend. So having been given the appropriate badges we parked in the owners enclosure and we took the lift up to the second or third floor where their box was. I’d prepared the bets the night before and there was a private bookies outside the box who took our bets even though one of the races had actually started. The first horse won, but the night ended up either even or slightly ahead. The box was fabulous with food and drink, but really all my wife and I wanted was to go down and see the horses as they got into the winners enclosure. I’ve been to one other racecourse at Uttoxeter where I was invited by Marstons the brewers and I took my then 5/6 year old granddaughter, the two of us had a great day but no bets were placed, just being with the horses did it for us…..
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Apology accepted
 
Good morning all on this beautiful day here in Finland .I hope all are well and had a good night .
Sorry for the late report but I have sound problems ,we have the TV linked to an amp which has gone kapput .So i am contemplating a sound bar or another amp. The system now is 5.2 so I think a soundbar will struggle to achieve anything as good and i am leaning toward another amp .As you all know the more i search the more confused I get .Update to follow.COYB
 

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