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Old 04-14-2011, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Linny View Post
The Dwyers were hard bettors and their horses worked for a living. Today they would be call "butchers" by the internet throngs and in fact they would be right. The Dwyers started out as butchers and were infamous for selling rancid meat to the Union Army in the Civil War.
Mike Dwyer - according to this column - had nothing left at the end...









From what I've read on how the bookmaking game went - obviously a much, much easier game to beat 100 years ago. Plunger Walton cleared $350,000 betting in just 2 years during the late 1800's.
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