Dog tracks are unlikely places to experience a life-changing event but SEI's Paul Osborne reckons it happened to him.

The fund marketer happily admits to having spent a generous amount of his youth getting to know the bookmakers at the greyhounds in south London's Wimbledon Stadium. Seasoned punters are eventually accepted as a "face" by track-side bookies, who give regulars nicknames to save the bother of handing them a betting slip.