it is the fun day for all the backing punters, sad day for the laying punters. and the funiest thing today, is alikat refuse to run when his main rival brought down by his jocky, unless there is another rival come up to match with him, so he wait for the other horse to catch up, who is 20 lengths behind, anyway, he win easily by 7 to 8 length. never seen that either. the comentator was amazed thought this match was finished. so funny.
2006-08-07 05:49:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Horse Racing
back in the days when I was a trainee manager, all the favourites won at the same meeting through the card. Its happened twice in my experience when every race at a meet was one by a favourite.
Cleaned the bookies out then and today. But a winning punter is a happy punter so fantastic!!!
2006-08-07 10:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK heres the deal with horse racing:
horse racing is impossible for normal punters to win in the long run because the odds are literally stack against you from the start, thats why the bookies only pay out 75% of what they take on any race.
but even more stacked against you are the trainers, forget the owners and the jockeys the trainers are the only ones that decide if the horse is even going to try in the race that it is entered for and most horses in a field of runners are not even seriously trying to win so if you backed them your on a loser even before the race starts.
added to that is the amount of false information that is put out by tipsters etc
this is the way it works.... if you think of the money backed in a certain race being all put into one big pot the more trainers can give false information (to tipsters etc.) the bigger the pot gets and the bigger the pot gets the more money that can be taken out by the trainers and his/her CLOSE colleagues.
if ever you hear of a tip in a race dont go for the tip you received but look closely at the favourite in the race.
although bookmakers have a bad name the trainers are the ones you need to watch they will smile at the television camera saying their horse "has a good chance in this race" knowing full well that their bet is on another horse in the race.
2006-08-09 02:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by 1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quite a few jumps horses are quirky so & so's. alikat most definitely falls into this category.
i saw four favourites win on the all weather at wolverhapton one night but that was a small meeting too.
2006-08-07 07:24:28 · answer #3 · answered by tjstarbe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In smaller meeting, things like that, happen most of the time.
2006-08-07 05:52:42 · answer #4 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋