As most often is the case, Race 3 in the Vaal this last Tuesday was the start of that days PA.
So smallpunter cruises slowly (Petrol almost as expensive as horse punting these days!) down to the Tote to lay my usual R30-40 bucks worth of PA's.
With 20 minutes to go before that Race 3 I study the form to maybe get a percentage on a mid-level Quartet, who knows..? Pre-printed race cards liked the 5 & 9 in that race as did I. On course the betting had moved to the 10 as favourite, followed by the 5,9. So I take two rovers with four others including three roughies.
Boy was I wrong!?
Those first 3 favoured horses are still running now 4 days later and even the harshest of my critics, out there, cannot blame me for not including 100 & 75/1 roughies in my perm.
The result was a huge R185,445.50 Quartet!
1st # 7- 100/1
2nd # 3- 12/1
3rd # 2- 28/1
4th # 13- 75/1
Numbers 10, 9, 5 nowhere to be seen!
small and a whole lot of other punters immediately & summarily thrown out of that days PA!?
That PA paid R9407 to only 83 tickets. Way to go horse racing authorities...
I know I keep going back for yet another 'rodgering', but my days are numbered, I can tell you that!
smallpunter
THIS DEDICATED HORSE RACING BLOG WAS STARTED IN 2012 BECAUSE OF DODGY RESULTS? IN 2013 THINGS HAVE GOT WORSE WITH SOME HORRENDOUS PAY OUTS. ONE NEED NOT STUDY FORM ANY MORE, PLAYING LOTTO-LIKE-LUCKY NUMBERS WILL BRING MORE LUCK. PUNTERS ARE WALKING AWAY! THE WORST THING IS THAT OUR RACING ‘BOFFINS’ LIKE TRAINERS, JOCKEYS AND WORST OF ALL, JOURNALISTS & FORUMS, TALK A GOOD GAME BEFORE, BUT NO ONE HAS ANYTHING TO SAY AFTER THE FACT, LIKE WHEN AN ENTIRE MEETING HAS "BOMBED"!
Friday, 26 July 2013
The Half Million Rand Jackpot!? Ban Betting at Eastern Cape Racing!
As I write this they have already run the first two races at Fairview today. I don't want to know the results and quite frankly I am sh..ting bricks about the rest of the meetings results with one 18 horse and two 20 horse fields included in the exotic bets later on..?
Having said that this, increasingly stupider, smallpunter has done a few PA perms totalling a princely sum of R30.00 (ZAR). I might as well throw the 3 ten Rand notes out of the window onto the Cape breeze than totter down to the Tote, but what the heck- our horse racing is a Lotto anyway, one lives in hope.
I see the usually 'comfy Cartel' in the Eastern Cape lead by Messrs AC Greeff & GD Smith saw their collective backsides this time last week at Arlington when combined they only ran 5 or 6 placed horses on the day. NOT a single winner!? When last, if ever, did that happen?
The downside of that for us poor punters was a MASSIVE Jackpot pay out of nearly Half a Million Rand! (R445942.10 to be precise- okay, I'm rounding-up, but this is still shocking!)
I don't know the rest of the trainers that well in this backward part of the world and TJ Laing and Y. Bremner might well be part of the afore mentioned Cartel, but well done to them for running 50% of the days' winners. I bet none of the 4 mentioned above lost any tom though..?
My short period on this Blog has seen the 'near' Million Rand Quartet, the Third of a Million Rand PA, the R500.00 Swinger and now this monster Jackpot result in the home of elephants & crocodiles!? (God knows, we'd have better luck betting on those two species than the 'apparent' thoroughbreds we lose our tom on...). Having said that I suspect though that it's the two legged crooks that control & ride these fine animals that are entirely to blame.
I didn't see the spec. sheet for this meeting, but for a Friday meeting with a pay out that size there could only have been 1 point-something winners with the average pool there. F..ing CROOKS!
Betting should be banned at the two courses in this province- it really does border on the criminal.
Break a leg lads. (Pref. a trainers or a jockeys, if you can catch one- Bastards!)
smallpunter
Having said that this, increasingly stupider, smallpunter has done a few PA perms totalling a princely sum of R30.00 (ZAR). I might as well throw the 3 ten Rand notes out of the window onto the Cape breeze than totter down to the Tote, but what the heck- our horse racing is a Lotto anyway, one lives in hope.
I see the usually 'comfy Cartel' in the Eastern Cape lead by Messrs AC Greeff & GD Smith saw their collective backsides this time last week at Arlington when combined they only ran 5 or 6 placed horses on the day. NOT a single winner!? When last, if ever, did that happen?
The downside of that for us poor punters was a MASSIVE Jackpot pay out of nearly Half a Million Rand! (R445942.10 to be precise- okay, I'm rounding-up, but this is still shocking!)
I don't know the rest of the trainers that well in this backward part of the world and TJ Laing and Y. Bremner might well be part of the afore mentioned Cartel, but well done to them for running 50% of the days' winners. I bet none of the 4 mentioned above lost any tom though..?
My short period on this Blog has seen the 'near' Million Rand Quartet, the Third of a Million Rand PA, the R500.00 Swinger and now this monster Jackpot result in the home of elephants & crocodiles!? (God knows, we'd have better luck betting on those two species than the 'apparent' thoroughbreds we lose our tom on...). Having said that I suspect though that it's the two legged crooks that control & ride these fine animals that are entirely to blame.
I didn't see the spec. sheet for this meeting, but for a Friday meeting with a pay out that size there could only have been 1 point-something winners with the average pool there. F..ing CROOKS!
Betting should be banned at the two courses in this province- it really does border on the criminal.
Break a leg lads. (Pref. a trainers or a jockeys, if you can catch one- Bastards!)
smallpunter
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Kenilworth-13 July, 2013. Quartet Horrors!
I haven't had the time, or inclination to look back at this weekends racing, but I did hear our unlikely July winning jockey, Smanga Khumalo, rode the full Jackpot at Turffontein yesterday..? Apparently it was 5 straight wins and everyone was watching & waiting for him to run the Pick 6, but he failed in its sixth Leg. Remarkable!
Was it his birthday or something? See an upcoming post of mine on jockey birthdays, if you know of any please let me know, as that sort of info can help us less fortunate punters back these unpredictable little men on their special days...
My beef in this posting was the HUGE Quartet pay outs at Kenilworth a week ago on Saturday. I don't know if anyone else noticed or was even bothered?
Horsey journo Michael Clower noticed and wrote that the old fella, and perennially unpredictable Jock, Glen Hatt, running four winners on the day (That's 50%- not bad?). There was one favourite, a 5/1, a 7/1 and one donkey at 33/1 (Victorious Lady). Well done Hatty! (see above about birthdays- makes one wonder, doesn't it?)
I copied & pasted from my spread sheet and you can see the stupendous results below. Clairwood had 7 out of 10 QT pay outs under a Grand, which is small for QT's, but the upstanding folk down here in the Cape sought fit to break records with massive pay outs for their QT's in 7 out of 8 races!?
Race 1: R165K pay out and R116K C/over!?
One week KZN crook, the next week it's the Cape and Eastern Cape meetings always defy belief!!! (R446k Jackpot this last Friday! I rest my case.)
Every time I write something on this site I think Wow, surely it can't be surpassed?
But in SA horse racing it takes only a fortnight or so for something more shocking to occur!
Go carefully punters.
smallpunter
Was it his birthday or something? See an upcoming post of mine on jockey birthdays, if you know of any please let me know, as that sort of info can help us less fortunate punters back these unpredictable little men on their special days...
My beef in this posting was the HUGE Quartet pay outs at Kenilworth a week ago on Saturday. I don't know if anyone else noticed or was even bothered?
Horsey journo Michael Clower noticed and wrote that the old fella, and perennially unpredictable Jock, Glen Hatt, running four winners on the day (That's 50%- not bad?). There was one favourite, a 5/1, a 7/1 and one donkey at 33/1 (Victorious Lady). Well done Hatty! (see above about birthdays- makes one wonder, doesn't it?)
I copied & pasted from my spread sheet and you can see the stupendous results below. Clairwood had 7 out of 10 QT pay outs under a Grand, which is small for QT's, but the upstanding folk down here in the Cape sought fit to break records with massive pay outs for their QT's in 7 out of 8 races!?
Race 1: R165K pay out and R116K C/over!?
One week KZN crook, the next week it's the Cape and Eastern Cape meetings always defy belief!!! (R446k Jackpot this last Friday! I rest my case.)
Every time I write something on this site I think Wow, surely it can't be surpassed?
But in SA horse racing it takes only a fortnight or so for something more shocking to occur!
Go carefully punters.
smallpunter
| QUARTET PAY OUTS- SATURDAY, 13 JULY | |||||
| CLAIRWOOD | KENILWORTH | ||||
| RACE 1 | R 54.40 | RACE 1 | 164 810.70 | 115623.91 (C/OVER) | |
| RACE 2 | R 992.80 | RACE 2 | 25 868.20 | ||
| RACE 3 | R 215.40 | RACE 3 | 10 819.60 | ||
| RACE 4 | R 234.70 | RACE 4 | 7 125.10 | ||
| RACE 5 | R 629.20 | RACE 5 | 14 943.30 | ||
| RACE 6 | R 139.30 | RACE 6 | 437.70 | ||
| RACE 7 | R 417.10 | RACE 7 | 11 706.30 | ||
| RACE 8 | R 2 048.50 | RACE 8 | 11 568.40 | ||
| RACE 9 | R 2 567.40 | ||||
| RACE 10 | R 1 765.40 | ||||
| UNDER R1000 | |||||
| 1000-5000 | |||||
| 5000-20000 | |||||
| 20000-100K | |||||
| 100K PLUS | |||||
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Uncanny Similarities
Below are the last two Durban July winners, lest I remind all of us who couldn't or didn't manage to pick 28/1 and 16/1 respective winners...
Does anyone know if this owner/trainer back-to-back double has happened before in this prestigious race?
And then one 'hack' (A Jimmy Lithgow in the Sunday Times) points out what wasn't that obvious [to this observer at least] on that bad day for the average punter. Quote;
"Black jockey wins SA's biggest race for the first time on Nelson Mandela day at Greyville"
I should point out that the 'black jockey' part of that sentence was in fact very obvious to me and good luck to the young fella; he's a good jockey and I don't mind punting him, but NOT in this race!
The part that wasn't immediately obvious was the 'Nelson Mandela day'. They're doing so much to appease this old boy on his death bed, one has to wonder if the 'honest' folks in SA racing could actually go far enough to pull-off such a cunning stunt..?
2012
2013
Both owned by CJH van Niekerk!? (Who's he..?)
smallpunter
Does anyone know if this owner/trainer back-to-back double has happened before in this prestigious race?
And then one 'hack' (A Jimmy Lithgow in the Sunday Times) points out what wasn't that obvious [to this observer at least] on that bad day for the average punter. Quote;
"Black jockey wins SA's biggest race for the first time on Nelson Mandela day at Greyville"
I should point out that the 'black jockey' part of that sentence was in fact very obvious to me and good luck to the young fella; he's a good jockey and I don't mind punting him, but NOT in this race!
The part that wasn't immediately obvious was the 'Nelson Mandela day'. They're doing so much to appease this old boy on his death bed, one has to wonder if the 'honest' folks in SA racing could actually go far enough to pull-off such a cunning stunt..?
POMODORO
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Piere Strydom
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S G Tarry
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A
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55.0
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20
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1
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0.00
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133.19
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20/1
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28/1
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HEAVY METAL
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S'Manga Khumalo
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S G Tarry
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A
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59.5
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11
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1
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0.00
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135.44
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22/1
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16/1
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smallpunter
Monday, 8 July 2013
DURBAN JULY, 2013. ANOTHER HUGE 'BOMB' for S.A. RACING!
Thank goodness Saturdays Vodacom Durban July was shortened by two races or else the results would've been even more scary! (If that is even remotely possible..?)
I referenced a song title in my blog posting an hour before the shenanigans started at Greyville on Saturday, and BOY, was I right!- The song- "I Predict a Riot"
There'll be another play on a song title at the end of this blog, so start thinking about a song by those resolute Paddies, Thin Lizzy, where I substitute a word in one of their more famous songs. Considering the song came off their album 'Jailbreak' I think you'll find the match-up quite appropriate.
But first punters- some utterly frightening stats from the day that certainly 'screwed' me and my fellow punters out of our hard-earned dosh! As I've said before I like a punt on PA's, be they straight lines or perms looking for percentages, and it was those high PA pay outs last winter that actually got me started on this whole blog/rant-thing.
In five years back in this country and punting regularly even me, the unluckiest of players, have NEVER, EVER chosen a PA bet where NOT ONE single Leg comes in!!!??? On my selection of straight lines there were two of those non-showing tickets and even one perm bet managed to land one Leg only!
When the PA paid a whopping R334,000.00 in PE in April I managed on average 3 Legs on some tickets, but in the farce that was this years July meeting it was easy to pick NADA/NOTHING in the entire 7 races to place!
Yes, I know it's horse racing and we're all relying on the performance of 'animals' on the day but I say "BOLLOCKS" to that! What about those smaller 52kg 'animals' on the back of the half tonners..?
For UPSETS like that to happen in 70% of the days races is to me questionable, dodgy and a sure-fire way of chasing away all those 'one-off' punters you need on the 5-6 'big' race meetings every year. The non-punters at my local ALL lost tom on the day! Good luck getting them back racing officials...
My main beef is that all the people 'in the know' are giving it large with their opinions/tips before the event with all sorts of advice, but none will give Joe public the slightest explanations afterwards- we just have to live with it. Sure, the shit has happened, our money- gone!
So thanks to Messrs Thiselton, Clower, Harrison, MacMillan, Racegoer, et al for your utterly useless advice, tips and fictional story telling. Must be a lovely job travelling around the country writing the biggest load of shite while wining & dining in the company of the only people winning any money in this game- The, so-called Connections.
July Day Stats:
Jackpot (Main): R163k (to only 12.7 tkts)
Pick 6: R916k (4.89 tkts)
PA: R31k (only 123.5 tkts)
Favourites: 3 wins out of 10 (Most others didn't even place!)
Quartets: 4 between R11k and R27k
Quartets: 2 over R150k! (incl. Race 5 at R205,481.30 and the feature Race 7- R151,722.10- remember folks, that's the one that's meant to attract people to having a flutter...) OUCH!!!
Why bother studying form, why bother with the months of waffling, predicting and pretend-pre-race reporting when 7 races out of 10 are blatant daylight robbery. If only I could just pick one or two winners with the ease that I predicted that this meeting would TANK!
I referenced a song title in my blog posting an hour before the shenanigans started at Greyville on Saturday, and BOY, was I right!- The song- "I Predict a Riot"
There'll be another play on a song title at the end of this blog, so start thinking about a song by those resolute Paddies, Thin Lizzy, where I substitute a word in one of their more famous songs. Considering the song came off their album 'Jailbreak' I think you'll find the match-up quite appropriate.
But first punters- some utterly frightening stats from the day that certainly 'screwed' me and my fellow punters out of our hard-earned dosh! As I've said before I like a punt on PA's, be they straight lines or perms looking for percentages, and it was those high PA pay outs last winter that actually got me started on this whole blog/rant-thing.
In five years back in this country and punting regularly even me, the unluckiest of players, have NEVER, EVER chosen a PA bet where NOT ONE single Leg comes in!!!??? On my selection of straight lines there were two of those non-showing tickets and even one perm bet managed to land one Leg only!
When the PA paid a whopping R334,000.00 in PE in April I managed on average 3 Legs on some tickets, but in the farce that was this years July meeting it was easy to pick NADA/NOTHING in the entire 7 races to place!
Yes, I know it's horse racing and we're all relying on the performance of 'animals' on the day but I say "BOLLOCKS" to that! What about those smaller 52kg 'animals' on the back of the half tonners..?
For UPSETS like that to happen in 70% of the days races is to me questionable, dodgy and a sure-fire way of chasing away all those 'one-off' punters you need on the 5-6 'big' race meetings every year. The non-punters at my local ALL lost tom on the day! Good luck getting them back racing officials...
My main beef is that all the people 'in the know' are giving it large with their opinions/tips before the event with all sorts of advice, but none will give Joe public the slightest explanations afterwards- we just have to live with it. Sure, the shit has happened, our money- gone!
So thanks to Messrs Thiselton, Clower, Harrison, MacMillan, Racegoer, et al for your utterly useless advice, tips and fictional story telling. Must be a lovely job travelling around the country writing the biggest load of shite while wining & dining in the company of the only people winning any money in this game- The, so-called Connections.
July Day Stats:
Jackpot (Main): R163k (to only 12.7 tkts)
Pick 6: R916k (4.89 tkts)
PA: R31k (only 123.5 tkts)
Favourites: 3 wins out of 10 (Most others didn't even place!)
Quartets: 4 between R11k and R27k
Quartets: 2 over R150k! (incl. Race 5 at R205,481.30 and the feature Race 7- R151,722.10- remember folks, that's the one that's meant to attract people to having a flutter...) OUCH!!!
Why bother studying form, why bother with the months of waffling, predicting and pretend-pre-race reporting when 7 races out of 10 are blatant daylight robbery. If only I could just pick one or two winners with the ease that I predicted that this meeting would TANK!
"The CROOKS Are Back in Town"
smallpunterSaturday, 6 July 2013
"I Predict A Riot"
The old toppies who loiter around in the Totes and the other, more 'cushy' codgers, betting online, in front of their laptops and 56" Samsungs would never had heard of a Leeds, UK based rock band called The Kaiser Chiefs.
These plucky northerners named themselves after our famous soccer team because our man 'Lucas Radebe' played brilliantly for LEEDS in the 90's when at times they were in the top echelon, yeah, that was a long time ago...
Anyway, these guys once did a song called - "I Predict A Riot", which is a brilliant tune. The reason I am referencing this song title is because today this humble punter (i.e.: me) "Predicts Something Similar" at Greyville.
Hopefully there'll not be a 'riot' today but you never know with KZN on-course supporters... (Remember a few months ago when they 'threw their toys' at the Stewarts..?); but I do think 'Carnage & Upsets' will prevail today in Natal.
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smallpunter is risking R200.00 odd on assorted PA's, Jackpots and a few Quartets at Greyville today, but honestly he doesn't hold much hope for his bets...
Let's hope I'm wrong fellas and it's NOT like 2012. Maybe some of us can make a few RANT today?
Good luck y'all, less than an hour to go!
smallpunter
These plucky northerners named themselves after our famous soccer team because our man 'Lucas Radebe' played brilliantly for LEEDS in the 90's when at times they were in the top echelon, yeah, that was a long time ago...
Anyway, these guys once did a song called - "I Predict A Riot", which is a brilliant tune. The reason I am referencing this song title is because today this humble punter (i.e.: me) "Predicts Something Similar" at Greyville.
Hopefully there'll not be a 'riot' today but you never know with KZN on-course supporters... (Remember a few months ago when they 'threw their toys' at the Stewarts..?); but I do think 'Carnage & Upsets' will prevail today in Natal.
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KZN- March this year.
smallpunter is risking R200.00 odd on assorted PA's, Jackpots and a few Quartets at Greyville today, but honestly he doesn't hold much hope for his bets...
Let's hope I'm wrong fellas and it's NOT like 2012. Maybe some of us can make a few RANT today?
Good luck y'all, less than an hour to go!
smallpunter
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Thanks Bernard Fayd'Herbe (NOT!)
I missed Race 1 at the Country Course (Durbanville) on Wednesday, 3rd July.
I wasn’t actually there, but in a Tote not a million miles from this picturesque
venue. You might say I was in Mr Fayd’Herbes' neighbourhood, but these geographic
vagaries are of little consequence as he not only disappointed this [poor]
smallpunter but, surely, many more punters across the country.
He apparently romped home on the 7/10 favourite in
Race 1, but when asked to do the same in Race 3 at roughly the same odds he
failed miserably.
As I watched in disbelief all my approx. R50.00
worth of assorted ‘all-to-come’ bets,
starting with this hapless jocks odds-on favourite NOT even placing, crashed out! I’m sure I
heard our local commentator, Ravaughn Smit, shouting about Chesapeake
being pulled/falling backwards, or words to that effect..? What!?
Sure, a small money loss to some punters, but not me when a 13/20 cannot even place what chance do we stand of fairness and consistency in this sport that is already struggling to keep its customers. If this horse was just beaten by a short-head into second by the 2nd or 3rd favourites I wouldn’t be venting so vociferously and would, like most, put it down one of those things that happen in racing.
Sure, a small money loss to some punters, but not me when a 13/20 cannot even place what chance do we stand of fairness and consistency in this sport that is already struggling to keep its customers. If this horse was just beaten by a short-head into second by the 2nd or 3rd favourites I wouldn’t be venting so vociferously and would, like most, put it down one of those things that happen in racing.
To make [my personal] matters worse the rest of my ‘all-to-come’ predictions
came in on 3 of my 4 tickets!? Bernard and Co. collect, the average punter doesn't!
Thanks mate.
smallpunter
smallpunter
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