The “Getting Out Of Trouble” Stakes

[IanDavies]

Not one, but both the last two races at Salisbury today are non handicaps – and what’s more both have odds-on favourites.

It’s my understanding bookmakers always like the last race (well EVERY race, but especially the last) to be handicaps.

I wonder if a few punters will be wading in if things haven’t gone their way earlier on?

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[Cork All Star]

Plenty of National Hunt cards end with a bumper, often with an odds on or short priced favourite.

[IanDavies]

Good point, CAS, though the bumper being the last race isn’t as apparently set in stone in the UK as it used to be!

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[Nathan Hughes]

The handicaps just as well be renamed the “Crystal Maze Stakes” if Gaelic Warrior isn’t running or another machine of Mullins, just lock me in and throw away the key

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[IanDavies]

Penultimate one won, “ultimate” one got beat.

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[gamble]

I am quite sure the bookmaking fraternity have their big nosed tentacles into the very heart of race planning.
The Salisbury meet on Friday was a nice surprise and I thought Trawlerman, jittery in the market, trounced his opposition and is back to his best and Scenic battled well and was just a head out of place. James Doyle got the best out of the two heavily backed favourites in my opinion.
Today in rain softened ground at Greyville we have a last race 6 furling handicap and similarly at Doncaster we have a five and a half. I often view these races as bookies benefit and any woeful punter that wants a blissful evening may have to transfer their hoped for state of joy to the bookie that lives down the road in the cul de sac with the big shiny car purring mockingly in the drive.

The number of times Paw got out of trouble on the last race and ensured an argument free non tetchy Saturday evening was nearby miraculous. I often thought he shared the same visionary gift as me. Problem was if he overdid it and won too much, the whisky bottle and cigar came out late on and the family paid for that excess – manifested in jubilant puffed smoke rings that wafted to the yellowing ceiling – on the very next day; the day of reckoning and the day of Our 🙏

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