Two Champions AlreadyBy the time August is finished (we'll have five Saturdays of racing) people will be falling over each other to back horses for the bigger spring races to follow quite soon. Needless to say, the prices on offer will be under what they should be, given the chances of any horse actually starting. Think of the ones that went wrong last year. And any year. Even on the morning of our biggest race there are usually withdrawals. So the risks are immense. And in each of the big races

Two Champions Already

By the time August is finished (we'll have five Saturdays of racing) people will be falling over each other to back horses for the bigger spring races to follow quite soon.

Needless to say, the prices on offer will be under what they should be, given the chances of any horse actually starting.

Think of the ones that went wrong last year. And any year. Even on the morning of our biggest race there are usually withdrawals.

So the risks are immense. And in each of the big races one horse - I repeat, ONE horse- will win, and all the other horses fancied right now will lose.

Or they won't even run.

It's hard world for the punter trying to bet prepost.

He needs everything going for him.

He cannot get involved in what I call August Hype.

Last year we had a really hot "champion". He was going to win everything. We were fed the line that he would stay all day, would simply leave the "ordinary" remainder in his wake.

He won nothing. Didn't stay.

Heaven only knows what that horse cost the punters, and at odds that now seem totally ridiculous.

Well, they were. They always were.

So we don't have to be ultra-smart, just wise to what will happen, as it always does.

Horses will be touted as champions very soon now. The immediate result of that will be falsely tight prices for the big races to come.

Nearly all of these horses - or all of them- will lose.

Draw your own conclusions about the folly of betting on them.

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