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Does any one else feel that some prices provided by bookmakers in relation to horse racing is getting more ludicrous.punters are getting less value all the time whilst punting. For example I was in Stan Jamaes a week or two ago and was looking at the market for the Albert Bartlet at Cheltenham.They had the first 3 principles priced at 5/1,5/1 and 6/1 for a race in the middle of march.How certain bookies can do this is beyond me,I mean they should nearly be 5/1 to show up for a race so far away.Should punters accept this?
I concur.
The Lexus betting was ridiculous the other day:
100/30
7/2
5/1
11/2
13/2Don’t know about you but I think some of the markets offer little or no value at all.
I don’t think the bookies offering short prices for races next year could be described as ‘robbing’ but they’re definitely shooting themselves in the foot. Why would you put your cash on the line now when the price is hardly likely to have contracted much by raceday?
I was in Manchester one Sunday a few weeks ago at a bookie which sounds like Hilliam Will and they were going 1/5 the odds each way.
Each Way should be 1/4 no exception.
All about liability really. No bookmaker in their right mind would put up a big price for a horse they think will have a good chance come March.
It’d be crazy to put up, for example, Punchestowns or Long Run at 10/1 or bigger now that theyve seen what those horses can do and even Big Bucks at 2/1!
Sometimes playing them short pushes the liability onto someone else with a bigger price. It’s a clever game when you think about it.
That said, antepost betting is all about playing your hand before these odds shorten. If you get bigger prices about a horse (e.g. by bet on Captain Cee Bee or Long Run) then you like to see the odds tumble!
I’ve heard tales of 1/6th. odds on track
But don’t believe it.
When did YOU last go to the track?
I daren’t go because of the scary stories I’ve heard about the shocking odds on offer.
Neil Watson,
"hilliam will were only going 1/5th odds"
probably a fishing thread, you got me.
William Hill, Ladbrokes and Corals along with most PLC/s
always offer tattersalls acceptable place terms.
The gambling commission unfortunately allow bookmakers to offer their own place terms whenever they choose
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once you go on betfair you probaly never go in a bookies again..
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