A bookmaker, bookie or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds. == History == The first bookmaker, Harry Ogden, stood at Newmarket in 1795, although similar activities had existed in other forms earlier in the eighteenth century.
A bookmaker, bookie or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds. == History == The first bookmaker, Harry Ogden, stood at Newmarket in 1795, although similar activities had existed in other forms earlier in the eighteenth century.
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