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Please don’t patronise me by defining sellers and claimers, I am fully aware of the difference between the two, I simply made a mistake in my previous post.
But in what situation would you envisage a horse worthy of odds 1/20, opening at 4/5? The only reason the Italian horses have started at such prices is because we can’t equate their form, and pricing a market is made extremely difficult. Are you seriously telling me that a horse put in a seller, the proverbial mile clear on ratings and with no adverse recent form (horses with ratings in the 70s and 80s have performed badly in sellers, but have had a history of doing so), is going to be put in at 4/5 rather than the 1/20?
Do me a favour.
It has happened twice this week already, LGR.
Someone somewhere knows exactly how good these Italian horses are relative to the opposition and is having it right off.
Please don’t patronise me by defining sellers and claimers, I am fully aware of the difference between the two, I simply made a mistake in my previous post.
I wasn’t patronising you, and, of course, did not know that it was a mistake. I was simply clarifying the situation, as it was quite a key point within your post, and I believe I did so politely and without trying to ridicule your good self.
I agree that it is because we find the form of these horses hard to equate with the form of the native beasts that they are (up to now) opening up or trading early on at relatively big prices. I also expect that our Italian friends are also well aware of this, so if they do their homework on the UK runners, they can be supremely positioned to ‘have it off’. This is the assumption on which my previous conclusion was based, and I think my post reads as such.
I feel obliged to point out that you, in turn, have presumed that I was saying something ridiculous, which I clearly wasn’t. You have also decided that rather than be civil, you will be quite rude in the way you point this out to me. Thanks for that, LGR.[/color:3fpj7mxi]
Similar situation to the South American’s at the Carnival then? Can make a packet backing those imports whoever trains them – particularly the dirt sprinters.
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