Back in 1989 a friend of mine's father was owed $5000 and didnt look like getting it .
The guy offered him a half share in this horse Chime Zam so he took up the offer.
We "knew" when to back it.. they were hitting it with what was known back then as "the juice"
....won heaps especially on the 1990 Castlemaine...
Much later in his career we got the call ....it's "on" he was at 14/1 and I had 2000 to 8000. My friend (owners son) had 30k on the nose...we were well known "winners" and the local tab went wild... the line was out the door, across the road almost wending over to the main bar of the pub.
They jumped, giddy up, 1600 metre race...at the 400 metre mark Chime Zam was 12th... at the line, he was 14th... out of 16
...... well.....
you could hear a pin drop in that TAB and the eyes were sharp enough to kill. My mate screwed up his ticket and threw it in the bin with about three fire trucks being uttered and then walked away...
I can remember vividly to this day me still staring at the screen holding the most expensive piece of scrap paper I have ever owned (with the eyes of 60 or so disgruntled punters burning through the back of my head.)
At retirement he’d won 9 of 80, then was flat out throwing a winner to bless himself.
The horse won just over half a million in prizemoney stats below
CHIME ZAM (AUS) br. H, 1987 DP = 4-1-1-0-0 (6) DI = 11.00 CD = 1.50 - 80 Starts, 9 Wins, 10 Places, 10 Shows Career Earnings: A$511,135
Another common "trick" amongst greyhound owners is to shove a matchstick up the greyhounds clanger as they load it into the box... definitley not an enhancing move though...
you try and run with a matchstick stuck up an orifice when it should be "exit only"
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