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Eddie Mcguire - That's Amazing!
West Australian Racing
Ridersonthestorm33
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One of the great things about a racing day anywhere in Australia is that anything can happen and sometimes when least expected. Coincidence's and odd happenings can abound at the track even on a mundane day.
When checking the final two races today and their respective dividends thought wow there two long priced winner's at better than 50/1 and 33/1 - then noticed the double tote divvy was a bit light at $687 - considering an all up tote bet or multi fixed odds double would've returned much more.
Then out of curiousity - who trained those two bolters - Eddie Mcguire had leg one, now leg two, same colours and Eddy McGuire again!! That sort of explained the double payout being abit short ( not that you'd be complaining if you got it ) - but Eddy McGuire's effort definetly qualifies for a "I've seen everything!"
That's a tremendous training effort from the Geraldton based trainer.
*Hoofnote* Noticed the 33/1 winner Golden Acres is by Starcraft - what a horse he was - a name forgotten abit now - but that Kiwi horse on his day had a scintillating finishing burst and won many races. Was top shelf that guy.
When checking the final two races today and their respective dividends thought wow there two long priced winner's at better than 50/1 and 33/1 - then noticed the double tote divvy was a bit light at $687 - considering an all up tote bet or multi fixed odds double would've returned much more.
Then out of curiousity - who trained those two bolters - Eddie Mcguire had leg one, now leg two, same colours and Eddy McGuire again!! That sort of explained the double payout being abit short ( not that you'd be complaining if you got it ) - but Eddy McGuire's effort definetly qualifies for a "I've seen everything!"
That's a tremendous training effort from the Geraldton based trainer.
*Hoofnote* Noticed the 33/1 winner Golden Acres is by Starcraft - what a horse he was - a name forgotten abit now - but that Kiwi horse on his day had a scintillating finishing burst and won many races. Was top shelf that guy.
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Coming to think of it am pretty sure Starcraft has a race named after him in Victoria and deservedly so. Could come from an impossible position and mow them down.
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Then "out of"...that's the mare ( mum! )
Star Exhibit by Veandercross out of Makybe Diva.
Just using those names, Veandercross was a gelding haha.
Lots of by, out of and froms - now I'm confused, but that's not hard.
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Agree Rodent...Tabcorp needed to re-invigorate tote betting many years ago especially when the new competition arrived, but instead of doing that and going with the competition, they fought it tooth and nail.
Tabcorp's main initiative - bet on more and more races, trots, greyhounds from all parts of the globe - so much so that sometimes ( especially of an evening ) four races/trots/dogs can be going at once - all with literally just a handful of dollars in the pools.
If they heard that life had been discovered on a far distant planet and they had horse racing - we'd soon be betting on it.
They've spread the punters money over 40,000 events - pool size going down drastically.
Takeout rates - ( their in the small print section ) are too high - if you want punter's reinvesting on the continuous cycle - reduce takeout rates - and advertise it!
After takeout rate horse shows $1.78 - return to punter $1.70. My goodness that's a scam. Then they wonder why Pari mutuel is not going so well.
Adds a lot onto a already high takeout rate. It's the same as a bill at Coles being $18.72 and making the consumer pay $18.80.
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Its worse than a bill at Coles being $18.72 and making the consumer pay $18.80.
Its the same as a consumer going to coles to by 10 items that cost $1.72 each - Instead of being charged $17.20, they are charged $18.
Famous Roman
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Winter bottom stakes day 2007. Glory Hunter won the Winter bottom and Famous Roman won the Aquanita Stakes
https://www.rwwa.com.au/cris/meeting.aspx?meeting=796238
It was amazing as it was so unlikely at the time. I thought the trainer was on course though..
Many would say otherwise Damo, which probably explains why the rest would say it was underrated.
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