AND THAT'S HOW IT IS, BOYO.A wonderful English teacher and Welshman named Tom Davies, whom I knew in my youth, would end up every one of wise pronouncements with that telling sentence. "And that's how it is, Boyo", he would tell me sagely. And it usually was, too.And we were told not too long afterwards that life wasn't meant to be easy. It stuck to the speaker like chewy. Was he right?Well, betting can certainly be difficult, especially for any amateur going it alone.Take the Doomben/
AND THAT'S HOW IT IS, BOYO.
A wonderful English teacher and Welshman named Tom Davies, whom I knew in my youth, would end up every one of wise pronouncements with that telling sentence.
"And that's how it is, Boyo", he would tell me sagely.
And it usually was, too.
And we were told not too long afterwards that life wasn't meant to be easy. It stuck to the speaker like chewy. Was he right?
Well, betting can certainly be difficult, especially for any amateur going it alone.
Take the Doomben/Eagle Farm carnival.
You saw that blog about favourites.
And tomorrow I see there are amazing discrepancies in views from the learned judges. The Sydney papers carry three high profile national bookies' "best" and worst" for the day. Wait for it, it's coming... can you guess?
Yes, one bookie names a horse as his best of the day.
And (you're ahead of me, slow down...)
The other two name it as their lay of the day.
My gawd! Sorry punters.
Meanwhile, I have some figures for you, to follow that last lot from a few blogs back. They're again courtesy of the Mystery Pro:
Two horses came from last at Doomben last weekend. Kutchinsky won, Whobegotyou ran 2nd.
Every other winner or near-winner was in the first three coming to the turn. If you think you are good at this Brisbane racing caper, then here are the winners last Saturday:
r1 $7
r2 $18
r3 $3.90
r4 $41
r5 $6.0
r6 $8.50
r7 $5.50
r8 $13
Thank Mate. What can I say? An average punter out on his own must have a real job of it. Thrilling racing, but at a cost?