‘I took two paracetamol and got on with it,’ said Barry Dennis after heart scare at Lingfield on Good Friday
Barry Dennis has tried to retire twice, that I know of, and yet Britain’s best-known bookmaker, now 78, was still to be found by his joint at Lingfield on Saturday. And this is the more remarkable because, he tells me, he has suffered two heart attacks within the past month.
The first one happened before racing on Good Friday, when he was also at Lingfield. “I took two paracetamol and got on with it,” Dennis told me. “Lucky there were no photo-finishes that day.
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