Sadly, the beloved author, Dick Francis died last weekend - he was 89. I have read every one of his books, and was reading his most recent (his last book will be published posthumously) book called Even Money. All of his books are set somehow in the racing world, and this one is about bookies, the people who take the bets on horses at races. He explains where the term originated:
"In the good old days, when bookmaking was an art rather than a science, every transaction was written down in "the book" by an assistant. Nowadays, as in most things, it was on a computer that everything was recorded."
A Duh! moment for me. So there you go. Another brain cell fired and now you know this - how you will use it, I can NEVER IMAGINE, but it was fun, wasn't it?
Last spring I took the kids and several of their friends to a thoroughbred race track for an afternoon of racing - everyone should see a horse race at least once in their life.
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