TIME TO PULL UP STUMPS

TIME TO PULL UP STUMPSA very close friend of mine just emailed with a comment from a group of English bookies' combined effort: in effect it advises punters to be first in the door and first out with the prepost betting.Well that time is now over.Gone.Passed by.It's John Cleese's ex-parrot.If you're not on, the party's over.OK, let's be serious now. There WAS some $35 about Shocking for the big one.Gone.There WAS some $101 about Herculian Prince.Gone.There WAS $31 about Vigor for the Caulfield C

TIME TO PULL UP STUMPS

A very close friend of mine just emailed with a comment from a group of English bookies' combined effort: in effect it advises punters to be first in the door and first out with the prepost betting.

Well that time is now over.

Gone.

Passed by.

It's John Cleese's ex-parrot.

If you're not on, the party's over.

OK, let's be serious now. There WAS some $35 about Shocking for the big one.

Gone.

There WAS some $101 about Herculian Prince.

Gone.

There WAS $31 about Vigor for the Caulfield Cup.

Gone.

And so on. So You Think in the Cox Plate is of course the huge shortener.

At present he is $2.60.

You'd have to be stark raving mad.

That's a touch over 6/4. And there's a month to go. I wish the horse no harm but it happens.

And he could draw a rotten marble and be posted out wide.

That happens too.

All I'm saying is that the time for the great anomalies has gone.

Wait for the guarantee of a run now. Don't bet without it.

(fn. I also warned a day or so back against So You Think running in the wrong race, but since that isn't happening now I've deleted the line - T.O.)