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Got an email from Bet365 today to say that from now on they will be offering that if you take an early price on a horse and the SP is bigger they will pay the SP.
This applies to any horse in any race. From a personal point of view I think that in the long term it would be more profitable to go down this route of betting rather than the Betfair route where I find the commission a real problem.
ps Watch BookiesIndex Boy go tonight, can’t believe the RP have him in at 10-1!!
David
Funny you should mention this horse. A couple of months back I applied for the vacant Handicappers job. I was fortunate to get an interview, and part of the interview process was that they showed you a race and was asked to handicap it. The race I was shown was Zam Zammahs first race which you mention.
However the interesting part is what the guy who was interviewing me (who is one of the hcapers) said. He said to totally ignore the winner in any assessment I do as he could be anything, and that they had the power to defer giving a horse a hcap rating in exceptional circumstances when they feel that they didn’t have enough info, until it got entered into a hcap. And his opinion was that this horse would never run in a hcap, as he felt it was potentiallytop class.
Alan<br>
From the way I understand it, but I could be wrong!
The bidding starts at £3k after a seller. If its your horse then everything bid over that you get half back. So yesterdays horse which was bought in for 11.5K actually cost the owner:
11.5 – 3 = 8.5 divided by 2 which is £4,250. Considering the owners prize money was less than £2,000 I don’t consider that good business at all.
I once had a bookmaker complain to me that one individual had appeared to open 25 different accounts through my site, in various friends & neighbours names in order to get the Free bets on offer!!
I backed him as well, but to be fair he was drawn 11 and missed the break, so he had two choices, to try and come round the whole field, or to take the shortest route and hope for a gap.
He obviously chose the later and the gap didn’t appear. I’m not sure what else the jockey could have done, once he was on the rail with 11 horses in front of him.
Sailing Shoes its:
1) I’ve done so well to get him beat – now the owners etc.. are on he’ll win…
And the horse is named after a current england midfielder!!<br>
David
I totally agree, I’m sick of this sort of thing being seen as just part of the game.
Earlier in the year my horse was beaten by a springer in the market, and the jockey of the said springer said to my jockey down at the start "he’s the best horse in the yard I don’t know how i’ve manged to get him beat the last 2 times!!"
The horse won at a canter and has subsequently hacked up in listed company. I would go further than say its cheating, its fraud.
Would you really want to be backing a hold up horse in a 5 horse race??
Not for me i’m afraid.
Yes thanks I had a much bigger one!!
I must say Ryan gave him an excellent ride, he virtually carried him over the line in the end. Shame there arent any four furlong races.
The one that has me puzzled is Scented Present, a very decent 2yo with an OR of 95, going for only 9K.
I take your point but the horses beaten 3 1/2 and 12 lengths in 3rd and 4th were rated 91 and 89 respectavily, so maybe it does.
I’ve heard that you’ll be very lucky to ever speak to Walter yourself, and that its all very clinical. They even have a seperate room for syndicate members when you go to the stables.
