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!
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