#BettingPeople MARTIN ‘LOFTY’ CHAPMAN Star Sports Stalwart 1/3
Martin ‘Lofty’ Chapman has spent most of his life surrounded by the heady world of betting, going to the dogs and racing from an early age and embracing it all. He soon found himself getting a few quid working on course with bookmakers and became a regular face in the betting rings of the South and beyond. In that time he mentored a keen young lad who went on to found the company that he now works for, Star Sports, meeting Martin ‘Lofty’ Chapman.
In Part 1, Lofty talks about his early life growing up surrounded by ‘the game’ going to the dogs from the age of five, going to Brighton races not long after. He talks about ‘proper jobs’ and being able to make a living from the game and being a ‘happy soul’. He talks about some of the characters that used to inhabit the betting rings back in the good old days and a disaster at Salisbury that could have stopped his career in his tracks.