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bookielover
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Sitting at home having a lazy day watching Sky 1 only coz I'm not punting. So I'm taking in all the races, and some of the trots and dogs.
I just watched a trot race, race 6 at Yarra Valley over 2,600.
I have, from time, criticised race callers, especially those who are so concentrated on the leader and winner over the last 100 metres of a race, especially when that horse is 4 or 5 lengths in front, that they forget about calling which ones have the chance to run second or third, leaving punters who can only listen to the race, in the dark.
Having said that, I have to applaud the caller at Yarra Valley Harness for an absolutely brilliant call.
I don't know the name of the caller as I don't follow the trots here, but it was an absolutely brilliant call. Only 8 horses, but, adopting the adage which Bill Collins once told me, that being, "when I call a race, I call as if it's to a blind person, I watched the race with that in mind.
When I used to bet on the trots, and even nowadays when, from time to time if there is nothing else on and I'm watching Gloucester Park on a Friday night, or the odd race at Melton, or Albion Park, the callers both in the past, and it continues today, don't bother with telling the punters who can only listen but not watch, where exactly, the last 4 or 5 runners are positioned in a race.
If I'm punting, the horse I backed might be third last, but it's a huge difference to me listening, if I'm told that it's third last on the outside or third last on the inside behind a wall of horses. And the callers, rarely, if ever, tell you.
So as a lesson in how to inform punters who cannot watch a race, and even to those that can, watch race 6 from Yarra Valley today, and see how it's done. The caller did not miss a beat.
If you were listening in your car, you knew exactly where your horse was positioned throughout the 2600 metres of the race. It was a brilliant call, and a lesson to all harness callers, on how it's done.
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