The 7th at Ipswich today
(29.6.10) made for interesting viewing on Sky Channel.
Interesting in as much
as here we go again - talking heads looking for something
to say to fill in time before the race.
The on course favourite
allegedly was the former South Australian galloper
Zenton, having its second run back from a spell and,
as we were breathlessly told by the in studio link
person, great value on the Tote compared to its on
course price.
Now let's look at what
was happening here. Yes, on the Qld Tote it was showing
$4.90 with two minutes to go to the official start
time and on course it allegedly was $2.60.
How many bookmakers were in the ring?
What was the bottom line % of the book they were trying
to make?
Were they strong bookmakers (some still exist somewhere
do they?) or the usual bunch of weak reeds trying
to scratch out a few quid from the low number of punters
that actually go to Ipswich these days?
All valid questions
and required information before you'd make any comment
about "value" whatsoever I would have thought.
But no, here we go again - the usual rubbish from
an in-studio talking head with no real knowledge of
what was happening in the ring at all.
Incidentally, it was
$4.90 with two minutes to go on the Qld Tote - but
was $2.70 on Supertab and $2.90 on the NSW TAB,
So what "value"
for the vast majority of Australia wide are we talking
about here? Yep - two fifths of three quarters of
nothing.
And how many mugs "jumped on" because some
boofhead thousands of kilometres from the action,
and filling in time before "throwing to a break",
said it was good value?
Goodness gracious me......
why don't these people get a grip? They should start
thinking about the responsibility that should weigh
heavily upon them before they start sooling people
in to making bets they otherwise wouldn't make - or
is that part of their job description?
In the not so long ago
days, it was ILLEGAL for any commentator to make comment
on any aspect of the horse's on course price. When
was this legislation repealed?
The on course commentator
was smart enough to throw in a few cautionary ifs
and buts and maybes when they did cross to him but
by then the money had gone on the tote to compensate
for the "great value" and lots of people
did their dough for no quality reason at all.
We all do our dough from
time to time but at least make sure you are betting
for the right reason and not because someone in a
TV studio sees fit to get on the coat tuggers band
wagon!
The end of the story?
Oh, you can write that yourself. Zenton finished 5th
and apart from being a little unlucky at the top of
the straight, it never looked likely. Yep - just like
the bloke on Sky said - it was great value.
Don't get sucked in to
these urgers. It happens so often there's almost a
system for laying them in there somewhere
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