Was Striker Embarrassed 2 weeks ago?

Two Saturdays ago (16^th Mar. 13) at Turffontein, Pierre Strydom won Race 3 on Tiger Dee. As 2^nd or 3^rd fave it paid a nice little win bet! (Typically I wasn’t on him again. When I back him he doesn’t even place, when I don’t he wins..? A bit like when one backs AP McCoy in the UK!).

I don’t know if anyone actually noticed what happened in the post race interview for that Race 3 though? The commentator asked about his previous ride in Race 2 on Passionate Kiss.
My local Tote was a bit noisy (with its 5 only horse racing and about 5000 soccer punters), but the little bit I could hear I swear I heard that Striker was almost embarrassed & seemed to query as to why & how his 13/20- ON favourite was beaten into 5^th place by an assortment of 10/1 and 33/1’s??? He seemed to imply as to “how does this happen”?  Which is exactly why, dear fellow punters, I started this bloody Blog!

See jpeg below of race result: 

Out there in the trenches all of us are taking a constant hiding! Sure PA, J/pot and Pick 6 pools are pretty much the same week-in and week-out, year-in, year-out; but when they do pay anything decent it's seldom collected by us normal Joes on the floor.
I would love to see industry figures on the split between horse & soccer betting at the moment, cos those soccer punters are the only ‘real feet’ in the Totes currently. Horse racing in SA has GOT to become honest, true and just vaguely consistent sometime soon please?

Then that fiasco the next day (17th Mar.13) in KZN with the punters almost rioting!?
What an embarrassment, I hope the rest of the world wasn’t watching too closely?
Come on people, we’re not Ngong or Zimbabwe!?

Next time fellas, GO STORMERS tonight!

 smallpunter