Thanks Chrome Prince. I'm from the UK and I know that loads of people had great fun betting in running on the jumps races over there - some of the 4mile chases in the heavy going (ie: every week!) took about an hour to complete,esp at the smaller tracks where the quality of the horses was somewhat questionable, so you could get a whole day's betting action in just the one race! Maybe a good retirement plan would be to get a subsription to Racing UK on the net and stay up late each night. Not.