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Not ripped off by betcha. Treated generously by the tab policy. Sounds like many happy bit of a yarn posters after delightful peg won. -
thats what i thought,but someone told me they got paid out.surprised them as well.Perhaps thats a benefit of being an elite customer.
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last week there was a decision in the case involving a trainer mistakenly getting the identity of a couple of his horses mixed up, which most likely would have been avoided had the trainer had the option of freeze branding his horse,instead of micro chipping. the hearing accepted david mccormick had no intention whatsoever to deceive anyone but fined him $600 .When the horse was first presented at the trials the stipes pointed out the micro chip reader was saying the number was 1 out . Mccormick believed the error would have been made as a result of some sort of clerical error and elected to start his horse,seemingly sure in his belief that he had not confused two fillies he had, some time prior to working them. It was suggested the most reliable way for trainers to avoid such a mix up,is for trainers to purchase a micro chip reader These seem to cost somewhere between $100 and close to $500,depending on how good a scanner you want. previously i have started a topic,asking why NZ horse owners/breeders don't have the option of freeze branding their horses. After all,you can freeze brand in the USA and canada.costs about another $50 , about 1/4 of harness horses in the usa are still freeze branded.Some like jeff gural both freeze brands and micro chips each horse,due to caring about where they may end up atfter their racing career. Amish owned horses make up a large portion of the freeze branded horses each year.Their religious beliefs around chips is the main reason they choose to freeze brand instead of chip.Amish have a lot of ex harness horse,using them to transport them around . animal welfare issues are a reason rescue organisations who advocate for harness horses after racing, have been particularly vocal around retainhg freeze branding. They say ex racehorses who could be saved or rehomed if they were identifiable at the sales where many are sent to be slaughtered,but due to how they are often housed pre sale,can not be easily scanned and identified as harness horese. The amish apparently don't like buying them at sales if no brand. It does make you wonder ,is part of the reason their is no longer a freeze brand option,to avoid the attention the industry may get from animal welfare groups,if they were to find out exactly what happens to so many racehorses when they are no longer viable racing propositions.you would think that should have been in the back of the minds as a consequence of those who made the decision not to continue with an option of freeze branding. Personally i've always thought theres something not quite right,in implanting a chip in an animal,when there is another option that does the same thing.
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This cannot happen anymore Doomed however I recall a not so good day on the punt in my early twenties and I boxed 3 horses in a $5 Quinella in the last at Counties. They ran 2nd and 3rd, so I am totally up shit creek. Fourth horse protests against the winner, upheld. Winner back to 4th, 4th to 3rd and Mr Jammy has $5 of a $75 Quinella. You can understand why they changed the rules. -
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It was a weird market, Delightful Peg opened around $13's I think, I saw her drift to $21 early in the afternoon, so backed her then on the TAB. Then later in the afternoon she drifted to $31's as you got Nowornever - I did even better, I backed her to win on Betcha boosted odds $33, and I also backed her Money Back Odds 4th at $24's. I don't know, but the punters must have come for her after that because she must've closed at those $16 odds. So the TAB paid full odds, my $21, Betcha halved my odds at $16.50 and $12, so the question I want answered - are the TAB & Betcha different and that's just the way it is (that seems weird), or has Betcha ripped me off?
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