<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578212" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Semi Pro Punter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The heating up to twenty five and the lounge room nice and warm<br>And Joe sits on the sofa studying the racing form<br>With his ears tuned in to 3 U Z what's Higgins got to say<br>The movement in the market and the scratchings for the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Number six shows too much flesh and ten needs the blow out<br>And Higgins he is seldom wrong he knows what he's about<br>And number nine doesn't like the wet he likes it hard and dry<br>But do not leave the favourite out include him in your tri.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He picks his seven for the trifecta and he phones the T A B<br>Just five minutes before the off at twenty after three<br>Three of his seven run a drum and he whoops aloud in joy<br>When he hear news of the dividend a thousand dollar tri.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next monday when he goes to work he will inform the boys<br>And wait with a smile for the jealous glint in greedy old John's eyes<br>Another thousand to his retirement fund and Linda in the dark<br>He scored whilst she watched the football Pies perform at Princes Park.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the happiest day of all of the week for Joe is saturday<br>And this one quite a happy one as his Linda is away<br>She sits in stand of Princes Park watching Collingwood play<br>Whilst he scores big trifecta win and makes the punting pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578212" data-title="The Semi Pro Punter de Francis Duggan" data-description="The heating up to twenty five and the lounge room nice and warm And Joe sits on the sofa studying the racing form With his ears tuned in to 3 U Z what's Higgins got to say The movement in the market and the scratchings for the day. Number six sho..."></div> </div> </div>

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