According to this Breaking News article in todays Irish Times, our former Taoiseachs comments on the size of sterling amounts of cash held by him in his safe in Drumcondra. According to the article, available by clicking here:
Yesterday Mr Ahern said he would consider thousands of sterling to be small.
So really then, when Brian Lenihan tells us to stop whinging about the price of things, he really is justified. If we’re run by politician who consider “thousands of sterling to be small”, we consumers are really just whinging ninnies by complaining that M&S are charging €16 for a £10 item on Grafton Street.
But I digress!
Bertie tells us that he won £8,000 sterling on a horse, or the horses in the UK. Fair enough – I’ll buy them oranges. What was the name of the horse(s)? Where did they run? What odds were they at? How much did he bet?
And don’t give me no guff, Bertie, about not being able to remember any of these details. We’ve never heard in the past about your betting predilection, so I’m assuming you’re not a big gambler. In that case, you’ll know all the details above?
A friend and I won a substantial amount of cash (for us anyway) on a horse 4 years ago. It was called Mags Benefit. It ran at Ayr. It was 33-1 when we put money on, and went to post at about 20-1. The horse ran 18 months later in Leopardstown and just to say cheers for the winnings, we went along for the meeting. It finished last that day.
When you win big, you remember these things. I remember a Ladies Day meeting at the Aintree Festival a couple of years ago where I won about half of Bertie’s £8,000. I can tell you the 4 horses that won for me that day, the 2 places that I had, and the horse called Healys Pub that started at 50/1 that I bet on to win but it only placed in the last race that day.
What was the name of the horse, Bertie? Or, dare I say it, have you been watching too much of the movie Goodfellas, as Vario says to Henry (Ray Liotta):
It’s a lot of money for a kid. If anyone asks, just say you won it shooting craps.
