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It was accepted by authorities, for example, that he didn’t stand to lose when a doped Big Philou was withdrawn 30 minutes before the start of the Cup. Incidentally, I’ve bet for years with Robbie + Tom W. both on-course and on-line. The boss of the Rural Bank, Peter Huxley, admitted the fraud but had lost the money to Bill Waterhouse.

So did 20,000 other people. Were they muscled by organised crime behind the scenes?

There were a lot like him once – if not in scale – and their passing as a type in Australian culture is worth noting.

Bill Waterhouse (centre) has died at the age of 97.Credit:Tomwaterhouse.com.

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Neville insisted in court that everything was exactly as described and that Bill was just a kind of larrikin figure like himself.

Former big bookmaker Dominic Bernie learned by pencilling for Waterhouse and saw his calmness under pressure. He fearlessly took on legendary punters with names to match - the 'Filipino Fireball' Felipe Ysmael, the 'Hong Kong Tiger' Frank Duval and Kerry Packer who he said defaulted on a debt of more than $1 million. I guess you’ve done enough Googling by now to learn of the Waterhouses’ longstanding association with the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and North Sydney Boys High School. The decades-long suspension over Fine Cotton was both cruel and ridiculous.

Bill Waterhouse at his stand in Melbourne in the early 1970s.

Travelling south to field in the 1960s, he monstered the satchel-swingers there.

He had the biggest hotel in the 1950s. Why would he be? And that was enough under the rules to suspend him.

She’s a throwback to the old school and “society” won’t tolerate her type anymore.

He chose not to, because, ….

Tongan royalty has joined the Waterhouse clan to farewell family patriarch Bill Waterhouse at a service in Sydney.

Neither he nor son Robbie had any involvement in the ring-in. His most famous alleged infractions – regarding Big Philou in 1969, whatever really brought on the vague 1971-73 suspension by the AJC and the Fine Cotton affair – were either exaggerated or gossip. "Bill was a giant in the bookmaking profession. That he took seriously his oddball diplomatic post as Honorary Consul-General of Tonga (he went to law school with the young heir to the Tongan throne) was admirable on one level but slightly kooky on another. While he was a leviathan bookmaker, Bill Waterhouse became a household name with the Fine Cotton scandal. The latter cost him a marriage.

Nothing else I can find speaks in any way to the largeness or importance of the man. "He was a fighter to the end," Robbie Waterhouse said. He was the Honorary Consul-General to Tonga for many years after establishing a relationship with the heir to the throne, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, when he was in law school along with best friend, the late Neville Wran. Very large text size Family patriarch Bill Waterhouse, once the biggest bookmaker in the world, has died at the age of 97.
Monty is waiting for the bit where Nixon sends in the Plumbers.

I’ve looked him up and it turns out he was banned by the AJC for being an on-track front man for criminals (inter alia). I’m not old enough to remember those glory days but if I went back in time to the Randwick rails, I’d place a bet with Big Bill just to souvenir the ticket.

“Dad studied law and became a barrister, he was the largest seller of liquor in the 1940s, he was the leading hotelier in Australia in the 1950s, he was the world’s leading bookmaker for 40 years, he was Australia’s longest-serving diplomat, and he’s written a best-selling book. Vale, Bill. Bill Waterhouse was the biggest bookmaker in the world in the 60s and 70s. The Waterhouses were quintessential Australians, warts and all. It is curious, the lengths that CL will go to to prosecute a hopeless case on behalf of a criminal just because he is Catholic. Published: 14:29 BST, 19 December 2019 | Updated: 21:21 BST, 19 December 2019.

True story: a racing-mad schoolmate of mine told me the following day he’d known about the switch. His fearless attitude led to him losing $1 million in a single day in 1968 and he subsequently became widely regarded as the biggest gambler in the world. To me, Bill Waterhouse – the tall, manly, fearless patrician gambler – embodied an Australia that is disappearing rapidly before our eyes.
I don’t know who Currency Lad is, but he’s certainly not from Sydney if he’s never heard of Hollywood George. Waterhouse became a barrister in 1948 but took leave of absence in 1954 after the sudden death of his brother and partner, Charles, and never returned, making bookmaking his full-time career. Umm, why not? CL puts up a post on Bill Waterhouse without telling us about definite criminal behaviour from Bill, and the involvement of Nifty Nev…then compounds it by a flip “never heard of Hollywood George” which means that CL knows absolutely SFA about Australian horseracing, illegal gambling, govt figures activities within all of it…etc etc. Yes, because the media was always covering for BILL WATERHOUSE. Yep. Four Corners and the ABC went after him on several occasions.

Some believe the early 70s suspension was related to Huxley but Waterhouse always denied that. Bill and his bookmaker son Robbie were warned off racetracks by the Australian Jockey Club, the authority at the time, for having prior knowledge of the substitution of Bold Personality for the lesser performed Fine Cotton. His colourful life included a divorce and a second marriage to the same woman, Suzanne, who survives him.

Corporates have moved in and largely taken over the business. And yet here we are lamenting these things on a website…. He was the Honorary Consul-General to Tonga for many years after establishing a relationship with the heir to the throne, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, when he was in law school along with best friend, the late Neville Wran. One of Australia's biggest-ever bookmakers and the patriarch of a famous bookmaking dynasty, Bill Waterhouse…

. Only one coffee so far this morning. Former NRL player Luke Ricketson arrives at the funeral to farewell the family patriarch, Robert Waterhouse reacts following the emotional service on Thursday, Waterhouse was the Honorary Consul-General to Tonga, a property developer and hotelier as well as being a fixture at Sydney's racetracks. Waterhouse's granddaughter Kate and her children joined other mourners including former speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop. The Waterhouses are not Catholics, Monty.

[2][self-published source], Waterhouse wrote his autobiography, What Are The Odds? I’ll give the old bloke a sainthood for putting up with that over the Christmas table every year for 30 years. For those not in the know…the Rural Bank had had over $5 Million embezzled….at a time when $5 Million was a great deal of money.

in Sydney was held up at gunpoint and a large amount of cash carried off. “Waterhouse maintained he made no inquiries about Huxley and no effort to trace the mystery gambler when Huxley stopped betting still owing him.

In 1984 Waterhouse and his son Robbie lost their bookmakers' licenses when it was alleged they had 'prior knowledge' of the Fine Cotton ring-in[5] and the AJC revoked their licenses, before waiting for the results of the Queensland police inquiry into the ring-in.

He was the first Australian bookmaker to stand at Royal Ascot in 1967.

He enjoyed a great day with all his great-grandchildren last Sunday.

", Very sad that we have lost my father, Bill Waterhouse. The Waterhouses were quintessential Australians, warts and all. Will the Chinese pull the football away again? Open letter to the Secretary of the Department of Treasury and Finance, Victoria. King `Aho`eitu Tupou VI attended Thursday's service as a tribute to Waterhouse's long association with Tonga and its people.

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