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- Betting is the main attraction to greyhound racing - it simply has to grow if the sport has any chance of surviving or thriving
- 'I was so lucky to get the ride, I was in my 50s for God's sake!' - the day Giant's Causeway won a classic Coral-Eclipse
- Bookies were on their knees and punters reigned supreme - all thanks to one man
- 'We've had a touch' - Barney Curley, the yellow phone box and the bets that sank a thousand bookies
- 'She could be way ahead of her rivals and blaze a trail up the straight course' - odds-compilers mark your card for Royal Ascot