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If Spring Tonic(5-15 Wolves) leads at a goodish pace then he will win easily.....if its a crawl then who knows who's the fastest
2 furlong sprinter and if i knew he was going to lead and go a decent pace then i would back it big.
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Report ged March 21, 2013 1:17 PM GMT
simple for a simpleton.
Report sv March 21, 2013 1:21 PM GMT
??? Ged
Report chavman March 21, 2013 1:22 PM GMT
did you go to school sv
Report sv March 21, 2013 1:24 PM GMT
Yeah..a long time ago...why?
Report ged March 21, 2013 1:25 PM GMT
His 3 rivals have had a total of 5 outings between them. How do you know what they're capable of? If they'd had about 6 runs each, and done no better than their first outing(s), you'd have a case.
Report themover March 21, 2013 1:26 PM GMT
case closed
Report chavman March 21, 2013 1:27 PM GMT
you dont strike me as the type who does a crossword in 5 minutes
Report sv March 21, 2013 1:28 PM GMT
I know what Spring Tonic is capeable of and what's required to win a race of this nature and he's more than good enough...also the others might be better than theyve shown but they would have to be alot lot better and unless its a crawl they wont get near.
Report chavman March 21, 2013 1:30 PM GMT
*capable.case closed.
Report ged March 21, 2013 1:31 PM GMT
Yes you know what one horse is capable of. You've little idea about the other 3. They're all with decent trainers. One's had a break of 100 days after 2 outings, and another has had just one race when it "ran green" and "missed the break". You want to back odds-on against 3 relative unknowns who have all shown some promise?
Report ged March 21, 2013 1:33 PM GMT
...and not just back it, but you say it "will" win. That's stupid talk.
Report ged March 21, 2013 1:34 PM GMT
.aaah forget the 100 day bit. Don't know where that came from!
Report chavman March 21, 2013 5:20 PM GMT
forum sceptecism justified
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 5:22 PM GMT
ged knows the game.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 5:31 PM GMT
'If Spring Tonic(5-15 Wolves) leads at a goodish pace then he will win easily.....if its a crawl then who knows who's the fastest 2 furlong sprinter and if i knew he was going to lead and go a decent pace then i would back it big.'

Out of interest chavman/onlooker/ged..

At what stage did it lead at a goodish pace??? He tried to lead but Spencer got to the front and slowed it right down!!!
If Seb Coe raced Linford Christie(both in their prime) over 800m, Coe would win every time if it was run at a good pace, however if they dawdled round for 700m and sprinted for the last 100m, Christie would win every time! The pace of a race is massively important!!!

chavman.. 'you dont strike me as the type who does a crossword in 5 minutes'.... sceptecism???
Report chavman March 21, 2013 5:34 PM GMT
would you have "backed it big".
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 5:35 PM GMT
Does that make sense in your language? Wink
Report chavman March 21, 2013 5:37 PM GMT
did the horse have the profile to "back it big".do you think he  will win money in races like that
Report sv March 21, 2013 5:38 PM GMT
It was a no bet race for me...i had a big bet ready if he lead at a good pace but he didn't so no bet....the pace was the whole point of my post....
Report ged March 21, 2013 5:39 PM GMT
Python - your question is irrelevant, imo. The whole point is one of rubbishing the idea that a 4-horse race is considered a 1-horse race (given he leads at a decent pace), when all 3 of the opposition are unknown quantities to a fair degree. Rae Guest, in particular, has a habit of winning low grade maidens with horses who turn out to be listed class.

If the 3 in opposition were all reasonably exposed as moderate, and say, with moderate stables, then the OP would have had a case, but to dismiss the opposition when they're all so lightly-raced is just daft. I'm sure Spring Tonic is well capable of winning "one of these", but to consider him home and dry (granted pace), when you've little idea what he's up against is very blinkered thinking.
Report ged March 21, 2013 5:40 PM GMT
Well, it seems sv hasn't learned anything.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 5:43 PM GMT
I know him very well, I used to work for him, he is barred from every High St bookie, on course bookmakers stopped taking his bets, he won over a million pound on Betfair alone before the PC put paid to him betting on here, he took 50 odd grand off Barry Dennis at Lingfield(who then spoke about him on The Morning Line'.. so who am I to question him???
How many people do you know who qualifies for the 60% PC by only 'backing' and NEVER 'laying'?
Report sv March 21, 2013 5:44 PM GMT
By the way i was one of Betfair's biggest win only punter's until the PC and i was up 7 figures with them and i hope they come on here and confirm it.....Do you know how i did it??..huge bets on the right horses leading at a good pace and when they didn't lead at a good pace i didn't bet...by the way Gabrial leading and slowing it down ruined the race and the time was not great either.
Report chavman March 21, 2013 5:44 PM GMT
it was a thinly guised lump on thread,albeit with getout clause
Report sv March 21, 2013 5:45 PM GMT
Sorry Python i posted without looking at yours
Report ged March 21, 2013 5:47 PM GMT
Well in that case I have a lot of respect for the man, and take back some of the insulting things I said.

But I'd still go against him in that race (and not just with hindsight). In my view, you have to pick your races, and this wasn't one of them (imo).
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 5:49 PM GMT
chavman, I know it wasn't meant in that way, I see some posts on here where it's 'BANK JOB' or 'PUT YOUR LIFE SAVINGS ON THIS....'
This would have been all in good faith, he wouldn't ever wanna steer someone the wrong way, he's hardly ever posted as you can see, he just wants people to realise how important the pace is!!!
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 5:50 PM GMT
Given sv's subsequent posting ....

BOTH Parties correct in their assertions ....

As proven by the later explanation - and also the Race Result.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 5:57 PM GMT
ged, fair enough, everyone's entitled to their opinion!

Just out of interest though, if you knew an 100m Athlete was capable of running 10.5 seconds for the distance and he was against 3 other runners who had all had a couple of runs each but not done much, none of them had clocked better than 12 seconds, would you not back the one who's proven and be extremely confident about it? If the race was run in 10.7 seconds and you didn't know the winner, you'd be confident that your man won the race but if the race was run in 13 seconds, you'd be worrying as you know all the Athletes could do that!
That's sv' point, don't allow yourself to be vulnerable and make sure the pace is strong enough!
Report rcing March 21, 2013 5:59 PM GMT
sv , nice of you to use your one post a year to advise us all . cheers
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 6:00 PM GMT
To be fair to ged, though ...

There is a LOT more time to find the necessary improvement - from previous LIMITED Form - in a 1m141y HORSE race ...

Than there is in a Human 100 metres DASH.
Report chavman March 21, 2013 6:01 PM GMT
point taken.maybe too quick to criticise.fair play to anybody who is in the top .001% winning the money he has
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:01 PM GMT
Python - I don't think your parallel is a good one.

The kind of improvement a horse can make between runs 1 and 2, or between runs 2 and 3, is far greater than the scale of improvement a human could manage. Mainly because of how clueless a horse can be first time (and thereafter, for some of them).

..and again, you have to take the trainer into account (and pedigree too).

None of those things matter with humans.
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:04 PM GMT
In the end, it all comes down to price.

What price would sv have got if his lad had set off in front at a good pace and looking like he intended to make all? 1.4? I'd still have fancied my chances of getting him beat, given that scenario (unless of course, the Guest horse had fallen out of the stalls and was star-gazing along with the other 2 lightly-raced ones).
Report sv March 21, 2013 6:06 PM GMT
The time of the race says to me that the winner will not be able to go on from here and the second still can...i believe
its all about what a horse can achieve from A to B and then
give it the conditions to run to this figure...the winner has
run somewhere near where i thought and the second about 5 lengths below its A to B capabilities because of the pace slowing right down.......Sorry if i got anyone's back up it was not meant...i just thought some of you on here could back it if it was leading at a good pace as i am on the purple and can only get so much matched there and at a lesser price
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:13 PM GMT
sv - on what basis do you calculate your expected time for the winner, given that he's only had one race? How much improvement do you allow for him from race 1 to race 2? None? If some, what factors do you take into account?
Report koikeeper March 21, 2013 6:17 PM GMT
sv, a good read..you obviously know what you are doing...keep posting on here mate, nice to read something about horse racingWink
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 6:18 PM GMT
ged - So it doesn't matter to an Athlete who they're trained by?

I totally understand that an Horse can run green and what you're saying but you can only find the best horse in the conditions and back it, sv clearly states if it leads at a good pace has it's not a bet before the race as it might not lead or if it does, it might lead at a slow pace!

onlooker - ok fair enough! So let's up the Athletics distance, an Algerian won his 1500m heat at the London Olympics, they crawled round and he sprinted clear, halfway up the straight, Steve Cram(during commentary) accused him of cheating/drug taking as it was form out of all recognition.. it wasn't even the poor lads PB I don't think, he just had a much better sprint finish than the others, had they gone quicker throughout, he might well have not been sighted!
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:22 PM GMT
Python - not as far as predicting improvement from their first couple of races to their next couple, no. (Unless you're talking about professional sprinters who run in races arranged for people to bet on - because I know nowt about that world, if it still exists). As far as how they do over their whole career, and whether they peak for the important meets - then yes - but that's not a parallel situation to the maiden race we're talking about.
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:25 PM GMT
Basically what I'm saying is - imo, the time a horse runs in its first race on a track is (usually) little guide as to what its limitations are. I'm sure it's different for greyhounds, for instance, who have solo time-trials before they race - I imagine in that case, time is a pretty good guide (though I don't bet dogs).
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 6:26 PM GMT
Sorry but your "Pace" argument cannot be the 'be all and end all' of EVERY Horse race. .... Simply CANNOT.

I am supporting ged in his statement/assertion that ....

Where you have "unknown quantities/horse" - and there were 3 in this race. to varying extents  - making up a 3 horse race - THEN...

You cannot merely dismiss those 3 horse - simply because you KNOW what the 4th runner IS capable of.
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 6:28 PM GMT
* making up a *4 horse race.
Report sv March 21, 2013 6:38 PM GMT
Ged..i was totally confused all the time by the Racing Post's
standard times so i spent years doing my own and it takes years for them to evolve into standard times you believe...once you are happy with your standard times you can then put a figure on
what a horse has achieved from A to B ( obviously a crawl cannot achieve a figure) and those figures are then transferable
to other fast run races and they are pretty accurate...so fast run races in simular conditions work out the best.......Years and years ago Fantastic Light and Galileo met twice with R hills
doing a perfect pace making job on Give The Slip and setting a cracking pace on both occasions....Twice they went past together and that was over middle distances so you can imagine how accurare sprints are.......and Ged as regards improvement it can only ever be a rough guide but i feel confident i can put a maximun on how much and thats what i did and that brought it about 5 lengths behind Spring Tonic so i then thought if Spring leads at a good pace it would certainly win
Report ged March 21, 2013 6:44 PM GMT
sv - fair enough, you're obviously good at what you do.

What made you start posting on here after all this time?!! Did you consider this one a particularly good thing (given pace)? - or are you just getting daft?
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 6:49 PM GMT
onlooker - The 'pace' isn't the be all and end all, the ground is equally as important! Just because Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet on rubber, doesn't mean he's the quickest on mud/sand!

Like I said, I worked for sv but i'm by no means an expert and nor do I claim to be, I understand what he tells me but I can't work out the ratings for myself, that's something he did by himself, but i've seen more than enough evidence over the years to know what he says is very accurate, yes you will get the odd 1 that will not perform for whatever reason, it's an animal at the end of the day and it can't tell you if it's feeling under the weather but the ones that do go according to plan, far out weigh the ones that don't!

That race then is a casing point, STORM was easily the best horse but they crawled along and it got outpaced but it got on top eventually and won going away, had they gone fast from the off, it wouldn't have been outpaced and would have been easily on top well before it eventually was!!!
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 6:53 PM GMT
One thing that sv should have said also was, some of the race times in the Racing Post or on AtTheRaces website are way off, he was puzzled to why some races were working out so strangely so we timed certain races ourselves(away from each other) and the 'official' race time was way off!
Report sv March 21, 2013 6:54 PM GMT
Didn't post over the years cos i was studying all the time and
didn't want distractions but since the PC i just dossed about
doing a bit of messing on Purple ive just started getting involved properly again as Purple is getting better and i thought it might be a good idea to tell people how it is possible but the pace is important
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 6:55 PM GMT
Python99     21 Mar 13 18:49 

onlooker - The 'pace' isn't the be all and end all, the ground is equally as important!
--------------

No need to exclamatiom mark! that statement to me Grin ......

The GROUND is the single MOST important Factor.

If they DON'T go on it - then they AIN'T going NOWHERE ...

Whatever SPEED Rating that they may have previously attained.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 7:02 PM GMT
Haha onlooker, I tend to overuse exclamation marks!!!!!!! Wink

In fairness to sv, he's always tried to help others win, he had a big following in his local Ladcrooks shop in Gtr Manchester, people actually used to gather in there everyday for his tips, once he was barred from betting in there, he used to just go in to watch the racing, he soon got barred from doing that as well as the Manager pulled him to one side and said the shop was losing money as the other people in there were still backing sv' tips haha
They should have to have a sign on a bookies door by law, 'lose as much as you want but win and you're barred'
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 7:08 PM GMT
onlooker - That's a pet hate of mine, when an Horse has won a poor race or a crawl on say heavy ground and then 'experts' tell you it goes on the ground as it's won on it.. I could beat my 2 yr old son running in water but it doesn't mean I go in 'water' ha
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 8:02 PM GMT
Something possibly Fishy here ....

A poster who has only made 13 posts - puts up a SELECTION based on  - BURSTING out of the Stalls, MAKING ALL, and replicating THAT Posters SPEED Rating for the horse ....

When that horse is a [b]4
-yr-old MAIDEN  - The type that serious Form Students would normally SWERVE - has NEVER 'made ALL' before' - it only really 'trying from the front' last time out ....and never recorded a TOPSPEED figure of any REAL consequence....
--------------------

Last time ...

Soon led at modest pace, quickened over 2f out, headed 1f out, no chance with winner ..... TOPSPEED     50

Previous...

Chased leaders, driven over 2f out, stayed on to chase winner just inside final furlong, challenged final 110yds but always just held

Held up in rear, stumbled after 2f, effort and ridden 3f out, never a factor (tchd 3-1)
    
Prominent, chased winner over 5f out to over 3f out, stayed on to go 2nd again briefly 1f out, kept on

Held up in touch, not clear run and lost place 3f out, ran on final furlong

Raced centre, chased leaders, ridden to go 3rd over 1f out, stayed on same pace, lost 3rd post

--------------------

NOBODY has "made a Million" backing DONKEYS like that.

At the same time - ANOTHER Poster - who had only ever posted 14times -
- and just happens to have, "worked for him" - Is - quite conveniently - on the thread like a flash, and all over it like a rash, in support of the
Original Poster.

Then - when the thread is beginning to die-down - He regales us with a story of the OP being banned from a Betting Shop - because ALL the other Punters were backing his tips.

I was waiting for the email address catchment clause.

If sv is kosher - then good luck to him ....

But I still have to  maintain -

NOBODY has "made a Million" backing DONKEYS like that.
Report stewarts rise March 21, 2013 8:11 PM GMT
Inspector Clouseau on the case!
Must say looked an odd post to me from 2 new forum contributors, expecting a p.m type post soon.
Report sv March 21, 2013 8:21 PM GMT
No chance of an email address i loathe tipping lines...i just did it cos i think punters are unaware of the difference the pace makes...youre right onlooker nobody did ever make money backing a horse like that cos it didn't lead at good pace..if it had it would of won and i'm confident of it after rating the race.....
Report sv March 21, 2013 8:29 PM GMT
Onlooker...these form students what are they studying..cos if its the same form as everybody else i will lead to nothing..
Spring Point got outpaced of the Hannon odds on shot cos he went too slow and the pace slowed too much today too...His Kempton run was a good clip and he ran right to the line recording a good time and a good A to B figure and thats the form i'm following and not the slowly run Lingfield race.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 9:18 PM GMT
Hahahahaha Inspectors onlooker and stewarts rise, I don't know what your day jobs are but for gods sake, stick at them and don't be thinking about a career change into being Investigators!!!Shocked

If you ever reply to a 'tipping line/agent' or whatever they call themselves then you'd need to seriously get yourself looked at, if someone is that good at what they do and earns a fortune from doing it, why do they need to charge you for info as well??? They don't, they charge you because they're useless and don't make a penny from gambling so they have to get their money from somewhere!!!

Who are these serious types of 'form students' you speak of??? I know for a fact that everyone i've come across on my travels, does their brains in!

The reason why we posted together is because i've followed sv for years, sv is a very shy person and was reluctant to post on here, as to be quite frank, he said he will just get abuse off people(he wasn't wrong)..it was actually me that suggested he should do so and basically encouraged it!

As i've said before, he genuinely wanted to help people but unfortunately it went wrong today with how the race went but it's no wonder 99% lose when they laugh at and ridicule people trying to help them!!!

I don't know who you are but Betfair/Ladcrooks/BaldFred etc all know who he is and what he's done and they will all vouch for his success as will Barry Dennis!

Thinking the world is out to get you and everyone's hatched a plan to con you out of your money is madness, maybe just let people be who they are and if they wish to try and help other people then let them, don't worry too much about conspiracy theories, just be clever enough to tell someone NO when they ask you for money in exchange for a tip!!!
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 9:19 PM GMT
Oh and by the way, i've just checked the rules on here again and at no point does it say that you need to have made a 1000+ needless posts before people will take you seriously!!! Wink
Report stewarts rise March 21, 2013 9:32 PM GMT
Well i'm pleased that you've finally found your voice after 10 years on here and look forward to reading some more of your informed posts.
I won't say anything about myself but i think you'll find that Onlooker is a very good form judge as are others on here, not everyone on these forums is a muppet you know.
Report chavman March 21, 2013 9:36 PM GMT
blah blah blah.show us the money-put a winner up...either of you
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 10:05 PM GMT
I don't mean to be disrespectful to onlooker and I really do genuinely hope he makes a living from this but he can't do if he follows Topspeed ratings, they're absolutely useless!!! They're based on the Racing Post race times and the race times are way off in some instances! We once timed a race at Towcester that was 3 furlongs out(3 FURLONGS Whoops) on the official time to what time the race had actually been run in, we phoned Towcester Racecourse and told them and they made excuses saying they have nothing to do with the official times yet it's now been corrected! Leopardstown is a nightmare for it, James Willoughby' reply.. you've got an advantage then if you know the correct time!!!
It's not about having an advantage, I just want it to be fair.

I don't think for 1 minute that everyone's a muppet, i'd like to think most people are reasonable and can have a civilised debate/conversation Happy
Report madhatters March 21, 2013 10:29 PM GMT
A tale of two snakes

Slippery Viper & sidekick Python the buffoon

Betfair forum bows to the nolodge of purple returnees Sad
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 10:43 PM GMT
What the ! ..... to borrow one of YOUR Exclamation marks.

Python99 - Your mistaken assumptions are 'a milion' from being ANYWHERE near the truth.

I do NOT subscribe to Tipsters - NEVER Have - NEVER will do ... Have NO need to.

NOBODY has ever taught me ANYTHING about this game - sussed it all out for myself, and since I was 14 years old, too ......

But I HAVE put plenty of other people right, about 'how to approach' FORM Study, and subsequent betting on a selection.

I do NOT "follow TOPSPEED" .... NOR Anybody Else's Speed Ratings, either  - as I do NOT believe them to be PURE FORM study ...

SPEED Ratings are  often applied literally, at bare Face Value - by many - in a slavish, mistaken, manner .... IGNORING the FACT that ....

Speed Ratings do NOT consider Horses to have [b] individual
Going Preferences, Running Styles, course type requirements, quirks, and a myriad of other factors that the ''all embracing' FORM Student [b]automatically, and rigidly, ADHERES to - Race by Race, Horse by Horse.

SPEED Ratings followers  do NOT take into account such 'mind, flesh and bone' attributes - but treat the horses as if they are SCALECTRIX cars that just need a jab with a 240volt wand.   

They are a LOOSE indication, at times - But that is all -

- As -They are ALL FLAWED by the [b]human intervention/application of the  - UNQUANTIFIABLE 'Going Allowance' that HAS to be 'Awarded' in order to compute the (mostly) make believe nirvana of numbers.

I merely used Topspeed as the only readily accessible Rating  - as an example.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 10:44 PM GMT
Don't take up comedy as you'll die on your feet!!!

If I knew what 'nolodge' meant, I could maybe reply!

No one is asking anyone to listen, people choose to do what they want, no one forces them to do anything!

The fact that you've posted 4826 times in less than 2 years says you don't know what you're doing and you spend all day trying to belittle others that do!

No one is returning to Betfair, 60% PC, people who win on Betfair are charged a premium charge, I assume that's what you have to pay madhatters???
Report chavman March 21, 2013 10:47 PM GMT
python if you is so good why is you not python100
Report madhatters March 21, 2013 10:49 PM GMT
Wouldn't waste your breathe Onlooker
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 11:00 PM GMT
onlooker - I never said you do subscribe, I said if!!!

I'm not quite sure I understand your point about 'Speed Ratings', surely if you give an Horse a rating, you've given it for a performance in certain conditions? An Horse doesn't just get the same speed rating over any distance on any ground, each race has to be rated individually!!!

'SPEED Ratings followers  do NOT take into account such 'mind, flesh and bone' attributes - but treat the horses as if they are SCALECTRIX cars that just need a jab with a 240volt wand'....
I have never heard such nonsense, anyone who does that is clueless!
Loads of different factors have to be taken into consideration, having a speed rating means absolutely nothing if it's on a different surface/going to what the rating was achieved on. If the race is run at a crawl then the rating is again irrelevant, there's loads of factors!
Report onlooker March 21, 2013 11:06 PM GMT
Of course there are.

But where is the SPEED Rating ONLY devotee left? - when ...

A horse's best Speed Rating is from a 5 furlong race on Good to Firm, when it made the running, and just held on - and now ...

It is trying/running over a 6 furlongs on SOFT ground.

Believe it or not - many DO follow such figure slavishly and blindly - whereas -

I, and I assume you, too, would be a LAYER - all season long.
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 11:17 PM GMT
If that was the case, personally I wouldn't have a bet.. however, the fact that it just held on is irrelevant, it's the time it took to get from A to B in them conditions that matters!

As I said earlier, all sv does(and like I said, I trust and follow him 100%) is find the best Horse in the conditions, neither of us have ever laid an Horse! I agree thought that alot of people do just follow a particular system blindly!
Report Python99 March 21, 2013 11:22 PM GMT
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