curious

misdemeanors?

None imo.

I can't see that's the point. Nor of any use. What they need to do is increase revenue on NZ racing and they've well proven that raising stakes at any level doesn't do that.

Great story. Love it.

It's a good initiative but it's a mystery to me how they think that series will attract Australia's leading middle distance horses. The Thorndon is not a middle distance race anyway is it? I thought it was a mile.

M49Charles Town Races (USA) Thu, 16 Nov 2023 Results Home Expand all Collapse all R1MAIDEN CLAIMING . 1408m13:06 Stake: $15,400 Track: FAST Weather: FINE # Name Jockey/Driver/Trainer Win Place 3 Waverley Gustavo Larrosa 651.50 26.10 6 Nelly Too Victor Rodriguez 5.20 8 Dashing Lass Marshall Mendez 2.10 Bet Type Runners Dividend Quinella 6,8 10.50 Trifecta 3:6:8 1,212.20 Jackpot: Trifecta Terminated to 0.11 units Also ran: 4-Wild N' Sassy-G Whitacre(n/aL) 1-Red River Susi-Reshawn Latchman(n/aL) 2-Embraceable-C Hiraldo(n/aL) 7-Lady Cairo-A Bocachica(n/aL) 5-Magnolia Road-Keimar Trotman(n/aL) Note: Numbers shown are the distance from winner in lengths. Winners Time: 1:29.78 Winning Margins: n/a, n/a, n/a Owners: James Smith & Hassan Elamri Trainer: Mike E Butts Breeding: 3 f Broad Rule-Armsglen Scratched: All start Sub: 7 Lady Cairo

OK. That's a very different approach to mine as a punter. I have no interest in assessing which horse will be most likely to win an event, even though I have that assessment. On the basis that every horse has a chance of doing so, even if that is less than 1%, I'm trying to find horses which have a chance significantly better than the bookies assessment. I have little interest in figuring out the horse most likely to win.

I don't care how you derive them - plenty of successful ways - but a punter has to have them to price markets otherwise how do you assess whether an available price is worth taking? Just need to have ratings that are more accurate than the bookie's.

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He could have been at the PWMC and placed the bet there on his phone couldn't he?

Surprisingly, no sign of her in the top 120 of the recently released Longines' ratings through November 5. Though "THINK ABOUT IT (AUS) [121] joins the rankings after his half-length victory over I WISH I WIN (NZ) [121] in the Tab Everest in Australia. https://www.ifhaonline.org/resources/WTRRankings/LWBRR_PressRelease.asp?pid=137 https://www.ifhaonline.org/resources/WTRRankings/LWBRR.asp?batch=115

Wholly pasta. What the hell do I do with all this brylcream? On a more serious note, I think the race and the run of In Secret which exceeded my expectations, certainly franks the Everest form.

Just a different way of doing things I guess. I've started 100s of horses but would not put a bit in their mouth before they've learned to start stop and steer via visual, voice and bodyweight signals. Don't use the bit to teach them that.

FOB for Sundays and weekdays aren't usually available till 4pm the day before are they?

Well she's tightened a bit but I wouldn't be taking those prices when you can still get $2 e.g. Ladbrokes.

Maybe but she has won a couple of Group races at 1400, so I'm not sure that would bother her.

Absolutely. Not because I'm an 'Imperatriz fan' though, but because the bookies think she's a less than 50% chance and I think she's a 60+% chance.

Wasn't backable for me at 1.70 at the time.

If so 1.40

Or do you mean for Imperatriz?

I gave you that. 4.50

2.10 BetM 2.05 Laddies

My pricing and what I would back or lay them at are 2 different things and we won't know how good or bad that was until after the race. Just that by my pricing Imperatriz is now backable at $2.

What do you think about that price for In Secret? 4.80 in Oz.

"Robert investigated further before realising that it was no mistake, with a green tick next to his $5 first four easybets and NZ$106,000 in winnings".