i would agree with this post with one caveat.
on ur tote slip/online/voice call have an option to refund portion of exotic bet or not. lets say hawaam was my banker but the zillzaal wins who was the favourite. punters would be crying foul again.
great thread even if the original post was a bit off center.
Over the Air wrote: I have long felt that the scratching of a horse in any exotic should be treated differently. The current status quo where the tote favourite becomes your replacement only favours the operator who can never lose and carries no risk. What the current rules do is force the punter to be "live" in the exotics even if he has not chosen a horse. Hawwaam the perfect example of this unfair practice.
The fair solution is to refund the affected portion of your bet. So if you bankered Hawwaam you get the full refund, and the pool is reduced accordingly. Obviously you would have to be running in your exotics at the time of scratching for this to come into effect. If a horse is scratched in a leg where you have multiple selections, then the portion the horse represents should be refunded. That is the only fair way to the punter.
Why shouldnt this happen? Because of the operators greed. I reckon if this rule were in place, more than half the p6 pool still running would have been refunded, possibly more. This would have a massive effect on profits the operator generates. Before we say its too cumbersome, the refunding of bets where horses are scratched is already in place in other bet types.
