If
I choose a Swinger that might pay, for e.g., R1.90 to R3.50, one of the horses
will, 99% of the time, run fourth!?
If
I play a roving Quartet with the first 4 favourites, a 16/1 and say a 40/1 roughie,
chasing 8-15% of a, hopefully, biggish pay out; either the shit-hot favourite
runs out of the top four, or an even bigger roughie (Yes, 66/1 or even 100/1!) runs
into the minor places. Nightmare!
Even my favourite bet, the PA, pay outs have been a bit of a yo-yo lately.
One recent meeting paid only R7.90 then last Saturday (24/08/13) the Turffontein & Kenilworth PA’s paid R833 and R892 respectively. Now these may not be the mega PA payouts we’ve seen in the past but to me are still fairly ‘big’ results. Imagine, for example, if one of my (or yours) R10 or R15 straight lines would come in at nearly 900 bucks, Happy Days if they did, I’m sure you’ll agree?
The
thing that Irks (‘cos this site is
about irksome matters pertaining to horse racing after all. Isn’t it vaguely
amusing that a synonym for irk & annoy is Nag..?)
me about those two PA’s though is that both had huge bombs in their first legs
which would have thrown tens of thousands of tickets out of the running. Thank
goodness I did NOT play...
Both
meetings had huge Quartet pay outs on the day but The Crooks at Kenilworth
took the cake with a R86,869 and a R189,775 QT results! Yes, that nearly R190 THOUSAND RAND QT was, for most
unfortunate punters, the very first leg of the PA!? That race also produced a R200 Swinger, an R11k Trifecta and a whopping R18.50
for the third placed, # 14, donkey!
Anyone except the connections collect
on that one? I doubt it..
Remarkably 789 tickets still managed to catch my local PA- they must’ve got through that first leg with the second horse, # 6? (Paid R2.00 for a place). Well done to those fellas!
At
this Cape meeting only ONE favourite won a race (Race 1) and few even placed? in a 9 Race card.
COME ON GUYS- GIVE US A BREAK ALREADY.................................?
Jo’burg faired slightly better on that Saturday with
three favourites winning and 3 placing for Trifecta possibilities but their
Race 3 also destroyed most PA punters chances of getting out of their starting
blocks. That races result of 9/11/5 helped the PA pay out get to a healthy
R833! Nice if you got it...
The difference in the favourites coming-in or not is
blatantly evident in the two Pick 6 pay outs.
Turff. Pick 6 was a gettable R15,958 to about 68 tickets but
the ever predictable Villains in the Cape managed to come up with a stonker of
R610,875 to only 0.44 tickets with a hefty R341,698 Carry Over!!!??? Will be even more unlikely to win when 'couplings' are done away with on 09/09/13. Read next blog posting please? You know people 'high-up' in this game, then please forward my Blog onto them. They need to read this stuff!
Good luck punters,
smallpunter
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