hello all,
for some strange reason im curious as to the male to female ratio of contributors in this forum? are there as many girls that like to punt?
also im interested to find out the different eras that people on this forum are from, as i have seen it recently there are a couple of retired gentlemen.
i myself am 21, male and got hooked on the racing game by my late grandfater who used to place a 5 dollar bet on most races on saturday when i was around 10 or so.
just interested in the way other people got started and whether there are any people in my demographic.
feel free to post anything here, if not, then happy punting
cheers

Hiya Schmucta

I'm one of those retired gentlemen you mentioned. Being retired though doesn't make me elderly. I still play football in fact! Funny how people assume old age when the word retired is mentioned. For the record I'm about twice your age.

Further, I grew up in and went to school in Flemington with a number of members of racing families where my interest in racing developed. I have also owned a few horses over the years.

Most of my working life was spent in the area of research, statistical analysis and inference development.

I am now living in sunny Brisbane. (26 today guys!)

Privateer

[ This Message was edited by: Privateer on 2002-05-17 11:47 ]

[ This Message was edited by: Privateer on 2002-05-17 11:50 ]

Hi Schmucta,
Grew up with my father having race horses and alway disappearing to Bris, Syd or Mel to watch them run. Followed the gee gee's while I was at school but never had a bet. Lost interest due to lack of time for a long time and only in the last few years have got the bug again. Am 40 and male.

Cheers, Golly

[ This Message was edited by: Golly on 2002-05-17 09:21 ]

Hi Schmucta,

Male, 32, living in Canberra (although only moved here recently - previously I have lived in Sydney and Melbourne and also for short work assignments in Brisbane and Darwin).

Got interested in betting after working for one of the TABs on their betting and reporting systems (I am a computer programmer by trade).


Becareful


[ This Message was edited by: becareful on 2002-05-17 15:40 ]

Hi I am 22 (female) and I like the races - I started when I was about 7 years old and went with my grandfather to the Locals up at the sunshine coast tracks.

*31 Y.O
*MALE
*IT'S IN THE BLOOD.

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straight to the rails....

I'm new in Oz, living in Perth, and got hooked while still in South Africa by a friend who retired early with his divs!

At 46, male, I cannot retire just yet- but give me another year or two!

Hi, I'm 35yrs from Melbourne but lived in SouthAfrica for 5 years hence the name. Always followed the horses over there and now started a site over here for people to participate on a ladder against each other.

http://members.optushome.com.au/sjcgreen/hot4.htm

cya there if your interested.

Hi, I'm from Perth, 42 yo white collar worker, trained a couple of horses when in my twenties with some success. I have a passion for horse racing. Still play veterans football and generally enjoy life.

thanks for the replies fellow punters keep them coming. Privateer sorry if it came across that retired meant old, its not what i was implying, my father is also retired at the age of 42 and has been for 7 years, due to workplace injury.
i hope to learn enough off this forum to be retired by the time im 25 lol
cheers