Bookies Never Lose
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Featuring the roller-coaster life of race course bookmaker, Barry Dennis, as he desperately tries to win back the mug punters from the greedy corporations.
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Just come on here to watch this again after hearing of Barry passing away today. RIP Barry a legend in the racing and bookmaking worlds!
What an utter gem to stumble on .. could watch things like this all day ..literally was the good old days
You are the same as me, I love watching videos of England back in the 70s and 80s, back when we had a country and a culture. Now look at it, phucking disgusting !
Very sad to hear that Barry is no longer with us. He was a real character. Used to see him down at Lingfield and Plumpton all the time and would have my tenner win with him. Glad to know that I helped pay his mortgage..Sleep well Mr Dennis..
This is just the best. They don't make documentaries like this any more. Wonderful stuff!
What a lovely man. I came here after i heard of his passing, my condolences with his family
Best ever. Been hunting for years for this!!
Remember watching this when it first came out ( still have it on vhs ) probably the best programme ever made describing the life of an oncourse bookmaker.
Legend. Thanks so much for uploading. Keep well.
Thousand pound to get here and only 2 pound each way bets🤣🤣🤣🤣 same everywhere Barry!
Watched this a few years ago and thought it was class, though not a follower of the horses at all.
This just popped up on my recommendations again, so decided to give it another watch, and after sliding through the comments I'm saddened to hear of Barry's recent passing. RIP.
Mrs Dennis is a pure gem
God bless her ....
Yeah she seems like a diamond. they was back then. No ambition other than to hold the fort down and by the way theres nothing wrong with that.
Mrs Middleton as it 'appens.
She must be Married to that drack
a proper wife before 'feminism' took hold.
RIP Barry - what a character
This is absolutely fantastic. Proper social history of pre Betfair age
absolutely brilliant ... a missing gem of a documentary ..
Proper gambler our Barry.. no seat belt.
That Santrop/skiing70's montage spoke a million words. Must have been amazing.
I'm Irish live in New York the racing is depressing here without on couse bookies hope Ireland Wales Scotland England never stop the on couse action great intertainment
What is 'on cause' betting please? I'm American and can't understand some of the common terms used in the U.K.
@@Shawk95 it’s on course. It means betting at the track ( ie the course) with the bookmakers.
Loved winning but hated being turned over by punters loved to have a bit of banter with Barry over Romford dogs but it’s hard not to like a rogue like this guy !
I remember this when it was on TV, a fantastic programme
BARRY REAL BOOKIE
RIP Baz , loved you giving it to Johnny Mac
My dad would have loved this. Bless him.
Was down in Brighton for a holiday back in August 2014, i decided to have a ride to Lingfield Park i had 3 winners all with Barry Dennis lol! he was'nt a happy chappy i had £20 eway on Ohio at 8/1, £20 eway on Fiducia at 14/1 and £40 win on Secret Succes at 3/1 in the lucky last! what a day that was
As long as short priced favourites don’t win bookies don’t give a monkeys. That’s where they earn their dosh.
Sure Sounds Like Barry Chris GRH Thee King 👑 Of Thee Ring 😢
@@WilliamMitchell-n7i Very sad loss! He was the last of the fearless bookies! All percentage men now! No balls bookies now!
At his peak Barry was turning over 15million a year! A legend never to be seen ever again on the racecourse ♥️🙏♥️
@@ChrisLythgoe-mz1of Thee Bold Bazz 👍Pure Pure Professional 👍Mega Mega 🤣😂🤣🍀
Freddie Williams 🌱🌿🍀 🏴GRH 🙏
"Soaked to the skin...done a thousand pound" ...love it!
He was so kind to that American lady by offering Place & Show instead of Each-way.
Big Barry hates the old dears with there 2pnd ew bets lol 😂😂
Fascinating to listen the old boys speculating about the future , totally clueless that Betfair would turn them all into dinosaurs
Came in just 4/5 years later....
@@Isleofskye less. June 2000
20 years !! I used it for years at The Track without anyone really picking up on it though some did suspect :)
@@Isleofskye I don't go to races often but when I have I've always seen the bookies playing on the exchanges
Always now but when I played on them 12 years ago they were not allowed at the track ...:)
The opening clip is I believe after Barry had just lost "£10k" on the last race of the day.
I’ve even spoken to the horse and it can’t win
Just watched this docu now (must've missed it when shown at the time) but really enjoyed it, I agree with most of the comments here regarding the exchanges & now not having to leave the house to get bets on! It's a shame as a day at the races used to be seen as a proper day out & the whole social aspect. Not everything's positive about the computer age!
Christ wouldn’t want to be in that motor on the way home 😅
That guys wife seems like a really good woman.
That generation were like that. He paid for everything, left her alone and only expected a hot dinner when he got home. Nowadays life is a lot easier and women want to have the career too I but if you grew up in an era before supermarkets or fridges and mod cons, taking care of a house & several kids was a full time job and not seen as lazy or gold-digging like it is today.
As honest and straight talking as they come not to everyone's taste...but so what Barry didn't have to prove anything to anyone he did thing's his way just as everyone else does it their way. I absolutely loved seeing this again and seeing Barry's wife and home life his good lady also spoke from the heart and it's clear the love and trust they have for each other . I really felt for him when he got hit before the off just as the last race was about to start some charmer just happened to want a 'Monkey' on @ 20's which Barry obliged. ....🫣 I know this is from many year's ago and if my memory is right didn't one of Barry's lifelong mates another rails 'layer' leave him some very lucrative pitches after he died,? I would appreciate if anyone could confirm this as obviously I don't want to get it wrong. 🐎🐎🙏❤️
The real life terry tibbs
RIP Barry 😢
“Over two pound a pint” 😂😂😂
What a legend....
Barry Dennis is a legend of the game! Always used to come on the
Morning line with his Bismarck! A proper character he was and never shirked a bet! Good old bazza
RIP Barry!!
Amazing documentary
Thank you from Manhattan ©2024
I’m actually in the documentary, I’m the guy with the blonde hair when he sings who wants to be a millionaire about 41 minutes in.
The good old days
@Jack Sheppard The good old days
Days sadly gone, great days and characters.
Was you off your nut at the time because you look it 😂
Mr tipsy
Was it? Sit at home now in the lap of ones luxury watching it on Sky or on any of the betting platforms having a bet. Im 52 and prefer these days mate.
Saddened to hear of Barry's death at 83 he will be greatly missed by those who value free speech and real character!
Was he a free speech advocate?
"You show me a broke bookey-maker" I think that perfectly sums up Royal Ascot.
yep. absolute cunts with too much money yet argue the price of £2.50 each way wager.
To be fair she was talking more sense than the fella she was talking to lol
That's Henry VIII level of dinner calories there Barry!
All that doe and has a cracked window screen 😂 typical tight ass gambler like myself 🤦♂️
Who was the bookmaker barry was talking to at 29 minutes, would love to know if his stalls sold at auction and for how much.
That was Bobby Jinkle and they sold for £100,000
pretty sure the terry Tibbs charter is based of this dude lol the 90s was so good
20:24 france 7/1 to win the world cup GET ON!
Rotten tip as it turned out
£500 at 20/1 - Lucky Bastard lol
Core blimey , the wokes and snowflakes would have to be interned listening to half of this , blady well loved this 👍
100% agree mate...imagine what Starmers thought police would be doing today!!! Whole country is under attack and 'lead' by those who hate and despise Britain our heritage and history and want to completely dismantle our country and democracy and fill it with clearly disturbed illegal channel crossing MEN .
Barry's Bismarck channel 4 racing 🐎 what a bunch of bent Ball suckers 👍
R.I.P. Barry.
I'm spreading the word about how u use the date for horse racing and sports fantastic and the scratchings are fantastic 🤫
Don't forget THe Pork Scratchings....
@@Isleofskye I'm on to the letters and numbers 🤣
You're going in the right direction :)
fantastic
35.42 Pioneer computer king the great John Lovell watching Barry in action.
Its part of the FUN !, Trying to beat your bookmaker !
and having a laugh , one way or another !
And for Greyhounds , the late , John Power !
both would say come on give us your Money !! and laugh !
and lay you a bet ! and when you retired your horse / greyhound to take them home ! They always wished them well , as say they ve earned it ! give em ,a good life !
Though you had a friend / foe friendship , with your bookmaker , at the end of the day ,you could still have a laugh !
and don t loose my money I will win it back , ha , ha .
They can’t lose long term playing to 115+ overrounds if they can play the game .
He is mr tricky.
I'm finding his wife strangely alluring.
So am I, hahaha.
Why 'strangely' ? A very good looking woman.
Great documentary ,There used to be lots of interesting characters years ago very rare to see any these days .Feel sorry for his wife ,she will def take second place to racing in his selfish life just like mine did before she got rid of me
What an honest comment, takes a proper man that
What is so selfish about working ?
@@MrDanallmanwhen you get married and have a family I've found out they want quality time with you ,I was like a donkey chasing the carrot it took over my life ,I gave them holidays all over the world ,new cars ,and I gave my wife very good house keeping money.but. they wanted love more than money and quality time with me .I ended up a slave to work and missed lots of time seeing them when they needed me there instead of being at work .I can see in this video alot of the old me,more interested in earning lots of money ,very selfish (I didn't see it for many years I just thought she was can ungrate ful nagging wife my drinking partners not friends all told me I'm was great as I gave them their needs like lending them money etc),the more rope she gave me the more the more I strangled myself.she was a good girl ,and I missed alot of time with my kids because I was chasing the carrot,they needed more love and time from me .
Every ones got to work and make money but I can clearly see that this man like myself is chasing money ,and doesn't know when to stop.
He's like me ,he thinks his family should be grateful and over the moon because he's bringing lots of money home from work
I can see how this man is a workhorse and he's making plenty of money but wants more and more and more ,he's just like myself
Barry is doing so well he cant afford a new windscreen in his motor, look 2.35 to 3.00 mins.
You have to move with the times. Betting changed. There was a monumental change in the past 20 or so years, ever since the advent of exchanges. Though bookmakers still drive the exchanges, not vice versa. But it's corporate bookmakers, essentially number crunchers and traders, that routinely and probably automatically now with AI algorithms, ban or restrict (gub) to pennies any successful or prudent accounts. Old school on course bookies are prehistoric.
Not wrong there , if u know what you're doing it's almost impossible to get a decent bet on 💯👍
Bazza crying when he loses.. take it on the chins big man..
BARRY, NUMBER ONE BOOKIE.GOOD ON YA SON.
GRH King 👑 Of Thee Betting Ring 👑🙏🕯️🙏
37:45 is brilliant
I go to the bookie offering the best price on the horse i want to back. Where he is stationed is irrelevant.
Greeting the late Barney Curley.
He's a good winner.
wana be a facking bookmaker now!!'how much did ya win barry how much did ya win !! .....🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely brilliant 😂😂
Barry’s Bismarck, R.I.P.
Just shows you what the toffs get up too when drunk... Regards Tony
Brilliant , steak 2 eggs 😂
40.45 🤣🤣🤣
Went to ascot in 98 good times.
Who is the old bookie at 28:05?
Forgotten his name but he traded as Morry Levy. Used to go racing a lot at this time. Things were changing and it was just before the internet took off in a big way - Betfair. Still a few Jewish bookies around in the late 90s (my fave was Jolly Joe) but now there's only one, that I know of. Being an on course bookie is the mug's game. Why bother laying out exes when you can lay horses at home on Betfair and/or arb. If the game was still any good, you'd see lots Jewish layers at the tracks.
RIP Barry
Proper times these
Must of seen this 10 times
*have
😢😢😢😢 I was heartbroken for Dennis,s young Son, he took a monkey 500 and dennis son dint check the price move .. even if he missed it giong into 16/1 from 20s he still would of lost big .. loved this thou and like dennis now 😊❤️
45:08: Bet £500 at 20/1 =£10,000 - £500 = £9,500 profit the equivalent of £17,647.60 in today's money.
Amazed it wasn't layed off
If computers were an advantage, we'd all have them..
2024 - We all have them. everywhere.
Epic....
RIp Barry Dennis 😢
Barry is correct about Royal Ascot its a total waste of time.
Why would you go racing and not go to the on course bookies, you might as well sit at home
I remember betting on most of those horse's of the day, except they lost when I was on them.
Things evolve.... numbers drop as folk stay home for all sports. Culture and new profiteers.
41.37 😂😂😂😂😂
Can someone explain the monkey on 20/1? Why did that matter the lad missing it what do they do ?
Odds can change/fluctuate near the start of a race and that horse must have been being backed everywhere and so the true Odds of that horse should have been shorter than 20/1 Barry didn't spot it in time to change his odds...the punter did and knew he was getting value at 20/1
His son, Patrick, missed the move in the ring leaving Barry with 20/1 on his board. It happens. It meant that Barry was stuck with the bet and couldn’t hedge any if it back.Incidentally, Patrick is now a corporate partner in a decent solicitors firm.
Respect - Are you still in the game Barry?
He’s about 83 now and still stands at Lingfield most meetings.
Thanks for the news - I wasn't aware if he was still in the game or not @@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp
'Can't beat the expenses'... If you couldn't then god knows what happens now..
Diamond Geezer proper gentleman salt of the earth they don’t make them that Barry anymore.
Are we really not talking about the gurning Albino at Ascot?
RIP barry,never be the likes again .
When someone calls St Tropez Santropra best believe their rich 🤑 👍
It is very easy for bookmakers to win. You'll get some races where every bar bozo will come rushing in at the last minute throwing tens of dollars on all sorts of runners and by definition nearly all of them are gonna come a gutzer. And they'll be taking stable money which is sometimes good and sometimes astray. They'll sometimes get hit by a move which turns out to be good. I know a bloke who recreationally went to the races and had a hundred on his surname namesake, and only because of that, but he was on it when it was right, and probably took a few hundred out of an on-course bookie in that single instance.
R.i.p baz
Rip barry.
Good to see Gary Selby any one know if he’s still about!
Poor blokes had his pants down at Epsom 44:50 😂😂
Exactly what I thought.
Up to the legislation of Betting Shops and before there were far more ways to spend the leisure pound a majority of THe Bookies were Jewish as you can, clearly, see in the earlier shots.
Once the De-Mob money dried up and the game got quieter most were nowhere to be seen...