TURFFONTEIN SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 2022

Smallpunter wrote:

I am done now thats it fuck Sa racing wont be punting here again

You won't be the first Smallpunter.
There is already many that refuse to play KZN and PE,this is supposed to be better.
The quality in SA racing at the moment is at an all time low,and I'm not only talking about the horses.

Oh how I miss the days when a top jock like Jeff Lloyd and Bartie Leisher would give their mounts a full go for the punters, the rides that some supposed top jocks are giving their mounts these days are pathetic to say the least

Saint Tropez wrote:

Oh how I miss the days when a top jock like Jeff Lloyd and Bartie Leisher would give their mounts a full go for the punters, the rides that some supposed top jocks are giving their mounts these days are pathetic to say the least

Not sure there was MR in those days.
Nowadays the trainers and Jockeys are looking after the horses MR so I'm sure many times the jocks are told to give the horse too much ground to make up or the trainer slowly builds the horses fitness up using actual races instead of doing the work on the training tracks.
In that way they can reduce the horses MR while getting it to peak fitness for an earmarked race.
We just don't know what they up too most times.

0 Bloomington 20.00 25.00 16.67 14.29 12.50
R5-10 on the tote.
The whole of Transvaal heard about this one.

And the banker of the day goes down.
Given too much work to do after the whole world knows there is a strong tailwind and to top it off the jock drops his stick.

durbs wrote:

And the banker of the day goes down.
Given too much work to do after the whole world knows there is a strong tailwind and to top it off the jock drops his stick.

I have dramatically scaled down my punting on local racing. If i punt R20 a meeting it's a lot,

I have been punting mostly UK racing and having much more success and fun plus the results are way more consistent. I watch local racing and cringe when i see there's a horse being allowed to lead by 10 lenghts whilst the top jocks on the favourites sits calmly at the back of the field turning for home and only starts getting "serious" with 50mts to go. :S

At risk of being an arm

I wanted to back Bloomington but didn't due to the other "decent sorts" and left it I wanted to back fast love but instead had places on the 2nd fave and backed the fave ( Baeed did miss and they were multis) You cant even trust the stipes reports for any of these faves that missed today because we see their double standards clearly. It has been mentioned allready you will only know once the race is over if that trainer wanted to win... I will play punters challenge and keep my money in my pocket perhaps I will return for now sa racing has chased me like so many others away, dont even get me started on these PE trainers stable mates beating odds ons then acting shocked

Guys - imo these results happen all over the world (dare I mention Baeed today) - I must confess that I have not indulged in UK racing much - but when I did I did not observe the results to be more 'fair' - this is racing and if you expect everything to run like clockwork and be correct in your assessments most of the time - you are in for a rude awakening :huh: