Sentence examples for the bookmaking from inspiring English sources

A 1953 New Mexico State Police investigation found further that Kemper Marley was a financial backer for bookmakers and had connections with Baldwin and with the bookmaking operations of organized crime, a conclusion echoed decades later by the Arizona Project investigative reporting team.

Bookmakers The World Cup and European Championships are the biggest events in the bookmaking calendar and Leicester City's surprise Premier League win is expected to have boosted interest in football betting.

The whole episode shocked the bookmaking community.

Coates's start in the bookmaking industry was unremarkable.

Betfair comes from a newer side of the bookmaking fence.

He ranges everywhere, from the bookmaking monks of seventh-century Ireland to the beguines of 14th-century Flanders.

On the eve of the announcement of the prize, Ladbrokes, the British bookmaking chain, said that Mr. Dylan, the songwriter and author, had 5 1 odds of winning the Nobel, placing him ahead of Adonis, the Syrian poet; Haruki Murakami, the Japanese novelist; and Peter Nadas, a Hungarian writer.

That's the thinking, anyway, from Ladbrokes, the British bookmaking chain, which has been analyzing the fate of what Sotheby's is billing as the most recognizable image in art history after the "Mona Lisa".

But both the big bookmaking chains and the exchanges could yet be torpedoed by an aggressive and ambitious Tote.

Had you been inclined to wager on the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature based on the odds set by Ladbrokes, the British bookmaking chain, you might have put your money on the Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer, the Syrian poet Adonis, the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o or the South Korean poet Ko Un.

If this process operates as it should, portfolio insurance should destabilise markets no more or less than any other strategy.JOHN O'BRIENNew YorkShouting the oddsSIR The predicament of the major bookmaking chains is significantly worse than you suggest ("Bad books", June 12th).