416:: "I enjoy going round looking at the horses and I like to think I've got a fair idea. But I don't know a lot really and a little knowledge is dangerous." Discussing the economics of Coolmore's extremely successful breeding operation, Tabor said: "I get enormous pleasure out of the horses but, it goes without saying, that you're trying to make stallions. You need a stallion, maybe a stallion and a half, every year."
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Tabor worked for commission agents and credit bookmakers before setting up in business for himself in 1968. He borrowed £30,000 from a financier to buy two bankrupt betting shops from Andrew Gordon, retaining the name Arthur Prince and expanding the business until he owned a chain of 114 shops. In
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Magnier and Smith they subsequently campaigned Breeders' Cup winners Mendelssohn (2017), Highland Reel (2016), Found (2015 Turf), Hootenanny (2014 Juvenile Turf), George Vancouver (2012 Juvenile Turf), St. Nicholas Abbey (2011 Turf), Wrote (2011 Juvenile Turf) and Man of Iron (2009
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Tabor gained a reputation as a shrewd, daring and successful gambler, whose actions could dramatically affect the odds being offered on a horse. Speculation in the press linked him to bets of tens of thousands of pounds. His later horseracing associate, Derrick Smith, told
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Tabor became the owner and co-owner of an extraordinary catalogue of some of the world's best racehorses, generally owning the
Coolmore horses in a three-way partnership with Magnier and his wife Sue, and later with Derrick Smith, who became involved in the mid-2000s. His
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Marathon), as well as such
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for a reported £27 million. "There's an old saying I like," Tabor said, "which is that good punters make good bookmakers. I have found that to be very true."
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He bought several more, including Royal Derbi, trained, as was
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Reid, Jamie. "Tabor stakes claim to a football fortune: A former bookie wants to put £30 million into West Ham.",
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and Tabor himself became interested in gambling in his teens, spending Monday and Friday afternoons at Hendon's
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Muscat, Julian. "'To have a horse who is being mentioned in the same context as
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Tabor's other business dealings include an investment in two London hotels and a failed attempt in 1996 to buy
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pub chain. This group of businessmen is also reported to have profited extensively from currency speculation.
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for around £200 million in 2006. Tabor, Magnier, Smith, and McManus also own a large stake in the
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588:Cunningham, Peter. "The Cockney horse trader",
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974:"Phantom bids failing to spook West Ham board"
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437:Bookmaking business
278:Irish 2,000 Guineas
120:Michael Barry Tabor
326:Breeders' Cup Turf
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562:"Life's a gamble"
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