áEconomy and Another Day."There's always another day". Nowhere is this more true than in our pursuit of the racing dollar.Tomorrow, June 6, at least two of the major meetings will be held on bottomless ground. The trouble is that one of those meetings is a really big one and you know what THAT means:TEMPTATION!I have always preached that a $10 winner in a $500 maiden at Bull Ant Creek pays exactly the same as a $10 winner of the Melbourne Cup, and is usually much easier to find. Well,
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Economy and Another Day.
"There's always another day". Nowhere is this more true than in our pursuit of the racing dollar.
Tomorrow, June 6, at least two of the major meetings will be held on bottomless ground. The trouble is that one of those meetings is a really big one and you know what THAT means:
TEMPTATION!
I have always preached that a $10 winner in a $500 maiden at Bull Ant Creek pays exactly the same as a $10 winner of the Melbourne Cup, and is usually much easier to find. Well, the Stradbroke and the Derby tomorrow, not to mention the Brisbane Cup, all have winners in them.
But the Straddie has 19 losers, the Cup started with 18 losers, and the Derby has 18 losers.
That's 55 losing runners and 3 winners. Get the message?
And the tracks are not just wet, and they're not just heavy.
They've been deluged.
My advice? Go easy. Seek out a couple of longer-priced horses that you feel are over the odds, and stick. If another one you thought might win does so, be realistic. Remember how many others you thought might win, and they didn't.
Be careful. It's YOUR money until you pass it over. It can win you more money on much easier days.
But above all things, don't invest any more than usual on days like this. That way lies a bank disaster.