Tony Meany. Is he still around? My friend's dad used to go to the Saturday metro meetings each week and come back with $300. Never failed. This was late 70's, early 80's.

Sometimes he would be back by 1.00pm. Must have won on the first race.

His number one tipster that he used was Meany. On some days he would back the hot jockey. He would bet until he won 300. That was it. He was very disciplined. His son told me there was wads of cash all over the place, stuck up socks in bags, etc.

He would lose about 3 ir 4 times a year. One time he came back at about 6pm. Ray and me were having a beer in the lounge room. You could hear this booming angry voice from the kitchen "Who !@#$% left the cozy off the !@#$% teapot?!!!"

Apparently he lost big that day.