VAAL- Tuesday, 23 July 2013.

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