What are your views with regard the issue of the huge gambles taking place today? I can see the obvious arguments and wondered if anyone had anything to add.
For
In support of such a thing we all like to see a punter winning and winning big against the bookies who are often never said to lose, the big bookies make big profits and so if they get caught with their trousers down occasionally then I am sure few will shed a tear. It is the battle between bookie and punter and its that which we love and most people I know would hate a pari- mutal because it takes away these things.
We must also bare in mind that many owners enact the same ploy daily but the scale is much less of course and so can we criticise what we ourselves would do if we had a horse? I myself if owning a horse that was quickly identified as other than a group horse would find out from the trainer what his thoughts were with regard ability. I would then be expecting him to educate and handicap the horse to a mark he could win a race from and then tell me exactly when the horse was expected to win. The big flat owners have taken much of the skulduggery out of racing by allowing horses to run on ability from the outset as people like you or me would be unlikely to do so.
Against
There are also in my opinion two sides for the against argument
The first is that honest racing enthusiasts have studied form today and placed bets with hard earned money and have had almost no chance of collecting because of these coups and this cannot be right, although this is the case everyday to a lesser extent and we could argue part of the art of punting in watching for these.
The second is in the wider perception of the sport as should these gambles be landed it will make the main papers and could lead to people jumping on the all racing is fixed bandwagon once again, however wrongly, and this is not good for the perception of the sport we all love in general.
My own opinion is that I quite like that these things occur as its very exciting watching them play out and has made an ordinary Wednesday very watchable. I do feel however that were it a common occurrence it would ruin the sport considerably as confidence in the form book would diminish and that would cause many of us to not trust the product.
For
In support of such a thing we all like to see a punter winning and winning big against the bookies who are often never said to lose, the big bookies make big profits and so if they get caught with their trousers down occasionally then I am sure few will shed a tear. It is the battle between bookie and punter and its that which we love and most people I know would hate a pari- mutal because it takes away these things.
We must also bare in mind that many owners enact the same ploy daily but the scale is much less of course and so can we criticise what we ourselves would do if we had a horse? I myself if owning a horse that was quickly identified as other than a group horse would find out from the trainer what his thoughts were with regard ability. I would then be expecting him to educate and handicap the horse to a mark he could win a race from and then tell me exactly when the horse was expected to win. The big flat owners have taken much of the skulduggery out of racing by allowing horses to run on ability from the outset as people like you or me would be unlikely to do so.
Against
There are also in my opinion two sides for the against argument
The first is that honest racing enthusiasts have studied form today and placed bets with hard earned money and have had almost no chance of collecting because of these coups and this cannot be right, although this is the case everyday to a lesser extent and we could argue part of the art of punting in watching for these.
The second is in the wider perception of the sport as should these gambles be landed it will make the main papers and could lead to people jumping on the all racing is fixed bandwagon once again, however wrongly, and this is not good for the perception of the sport we all love in general.
My own opinion is that I quite like that these things occur as its very exciting watching them play out and has made an ordinary Wednesday very watchable. I do feel however that were it a common occurrence it would ruin the sport considerably as confidence in the form book would diminish and that would cause many of us to not trust the product.
don't tell me this game aint bent!!!