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So many OS meetings?
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I had a look at all the racing fields today and noticed there were 7 Australian meetings today.
Then I see there is 16 overseas meetings!?
So then I look at the trots. There are 3 Aussie meetings and 7 overseas trots meetings.
With the dogs there are 8 Australian and 5 international.
What interest is there in backwater international meetings? It must be somewhat profitable or supported if they are being offered.
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Fixed odds are terrific on these races/trots/dogs too - if you can manage a final market around 140% you've done extremely well.
Tote - the pools are that pathetic - don't put more than $5 on a roughie or you'll nearly bring it into favourite. Exacta and quinella pools of under $100...South Africa excepted with comingling.
And if you want to bet $1.50 Essendon v $1.80 Geelong keep betting tote.
There's been lots of two horse races lately overseas especially - go back through them - checkout the final tote provisional dividends and you'll see how much the above is 100% correct.
Been saying it for years - Tabcorp has three major marketing strategies.
1. Bet on more and more meetings around the globe. ( As Bomber just shown ).
2. Increase takeout rates - they've only ever crept up. Never down.
3. Read one and two again.
In saying that quite enjoy the overseas racing! Japan is a gem. Dowwwwwwn the strectchhhhhhhhh they come.
So when we start comingling with places like Chile ( it will happen ) 40% in the $ will be kept on trifecta's.
But Tabcorp will drum it into you that's fine - and it's all about the stability of dividends, pullllllllease.
Doesn't matter to me if they keep 90% of the pool, don't bet on that type of rubbish, but sometimes you need to go into bat for the punter.
Bomber it's worth reading about betting from all parts of the world - various and wild takeout rates - corruption and meddling.
Latest findings in the USA - when drop takeout rates - the punters will bet up and bet up big, therefor negating and making up for the less profit the Race jurisdiction would have been receiving.
Done properly it's commonly known as a win/win situation, now can't have that can we.
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Don't get me wrong, Hong Kong and the major Japanese/English days are worthwhile given the potential for these runners to head down under. The rest are animals with numbers on them...but I guess that's all you need
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Took him a year or two I think, and gees it was good, read it in the city news agency every day haha, terrible people who do that, and should've bought it, was bloody good - his adventures on every track in Australia - will try to locate that and this time - buy.
That's fair enough too.
Its all clean, actually it's crooked as buggery ( if you ask me ) but like it.
Reckon if head down and study - the trots too, but only in one state - WA.
Hong Kong and WA trotting - poles apart - but I'd select between those two to specialise in.
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Any professional punter who makes a profit betting on Singapore racing - take a bow. The strangest things can occur on the tote over there. The "cave ins" on the tote - incredulous.
Wouldn't be the sort of place to go and complain either.
With China's destruction of Honkers wouldn't mind betting a few government officials back a few winners there too.
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Official margin 5.4 lengths... great call by a 50% owner :)