What was your first experience of gambling?  I used to go into the local bookies with my mates when we were aged 16-17. We would sit in there all day, smoking cigars, reading newspaper form. We had no idea what we were looking at. We just put stupid multi bets together all day. I then graduated onto putting my Grandad's bets on every Saturday when he got too sick to get to the bookies. He would do a 10 pence each way patent every Saturday. What was your biggest gambling success? In 2010, I won £3200 on a £10 football sixfold bet Sky Super 6. Three draws, two away wins and one home result. I used to do this bet religiously as part of the Super 6 competition they run every week. One day I got up early to go to Anfield to watch Liverpool v Portsmouth, as I was leaving I remembered I hadn’t put my bet on, so I booted up the computer, went to the site and just looked at the fixtures and clicked the first result that popped into my head, without the usual

What was your first experience of gambling?  My first experience in the Gambling world was when i was around 10 ( 1980 ) when i was a runner taking bets and phoning them through and passing on detailed info from the tracks to the those involved , payment was £5 a day plus some bonuses if they were winners. What was your biggest gambling success?   My biggest Win to date was hitting 7 Winners from 8 in a Multi placed through Betfair , a combination of 6, 7 and 8 folds which cost £1000 and paid £255,000.What was you biggest gambling mistake? LAYING 5 out 6 Winners ( and compounding ) on day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival in 2008 , cost me £25k and nearly broke me....What would you improve in horse racing? Less Handicaps and more stakes or graded races and cap field sizes at 16 as it becomes pointless for both trainer and punter..20++ fields need more luck than skill sometimes.Who do you admire in racing and why? Alex Bird...