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Outdoors: The voice of the country When more than 285,000 rural folk invaded London last weekend spirits were high, but beneath the good humour was a deep anguish. Duff Hart-Davis joined the marchers and captured the mood
1998
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Ypsilanti: Another coup, but of a greater vintage. When Ypsilanti won the Jubilee Handicap in 1903, it marked the first successful strike by the Druids' Lodge Confederacy, the hard-hitting gamblers who terrorised bookmakers in the first decade of the century and featured in this space 21 weeks ago. In modern money, Ypsilanti won them almost pounds 5m, having been backed from 25-1 to 7-2, which means that his backers must have staked the equivalent of at least pounds 200,000. This alone was quite an achievement, even allowing for the fact that bookies in those days were worthy of the name and not afraid to take a serious bet. The same gamble would be effectively impossible in today's ultra-suspicious betting market, since to have any chance of getting such a sum on at 25-1, you would need to visit every betting shop in the country (there are about 9,000) and stake a little over pounds 20 in each. Even then, a fair number would probably laugh in your face and offer you pounds 5 at 25-1 and the rest at SP. Yarborough: A hand at whist or bridge which does not contain any card higher than a nine. It takes its name from Lord Yarborough, who along with the fellow nobleman who gave us sandwiches was a familiar figure in the gambling clubs which sprang up throughout London in the latter part of the 18th century. Yarborough would offer anyone odds of 1,000- 1 against them being dealt such a hand, a price which was cheerfully snapped up by any punter with more greed than sense. Yarborough himself, though, had obviously done his homework, since the true odds against such an outcome are only a little shy of 2,000- 1. Which only goes to show that you should always be suspicious of an apparently generous price, even - or perhaps particularly - if the person who is laying it owns half of Norfolk.
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