What Are The Odds. The Bill Waterhouse Story

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Random House Australia P/L
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 519 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The Tell-all Tale-on And Off The Track-of A Legendary Man And His Extraordinary Family.

Publishers Description: The Waterhouse name is synonymous with Australian horse racing and bookmaking. For the first time, the family s patriarch, Bill Waterhouse, tells the story of his remarkable life playing the odds . Bill Waterhouse is a true Australian character who has spent a lifetime mixing it with the biggest names in sport, business and politics. Whilst learning the bookmaking art from his father, Bill studied law and practised as a barrister. With his brothers, he built up a property empire, including Sydney s biggest hotel, yet bookmaking remained his passion. By the 1960s he was Australia s biggest bookie, and he remained at the top for over twenty years. Renowned for never refusing to take a gambler on, Big Bill always attracted the high-stake punters. His gambling duels are legendary- from Filipino Fireball Felipe Ysmael and the Hong Kong Tiger Frank Duval, to the up-and-coming Kerry Packer. In the 1980s, with son Robbie already a leading bookmaker, the Fine Cotton affair brought ignominy to the Waterhouse name. Although cleared of any wrongdoing, Bill was warned off racetracks for fourteen years. Here he reveals how deeply the affair hurt his family and his reputation. Faced wi

ISBN: 9781741666304