Ladbrokes

The only time that I ever placed a bet or two on a horse at a betting shop I really messed it up. I simply chose the colours that I like, or the horses name that had a ring to it and handed over my money… easy! Then we returned home to watch the racing on the tele. It was all quite exciting really, as we’d got a load of mates round… and so when they started putting the horses in the stalls for the first race, we were already getting pretty vocal… by that I mean, everyone else was getting rather vocal. I was sat silently waiting for my horse to show up… it never did!
In the next race it was the same story, as well as the one after that… In time, I began to protest audibly about having been swizzed… that’s when someone explained that if a horse has the letters NR next to it in the newspaper it means that it’s a none-​runner!
This outlet of Ladbrokes is better than many of the others. It is clean and reasonably well cared for, not that I suppose this matters too much to the men they regularly frequent it.