Great Article.Posted 8/10 2012
 

On "just racing".
Well worth a look just for the humour value.

Did you see his article on Friday completely bagging Bid Spotter? And then it got up and won. Brilliant! :D

LOL
You have to have a giggle when that happens ;)

Phil from Just Racing is by all reports a good bloke but comes up with some clangers, that is for sure.

Well, he's actually a pretty good judge most of the time, but one thing he continually seems to get wrong is that he basically writes off any horse which hasn't won for a certain length of time as a useless animal which should be retired. Which is wrong. Horses CAN go for extended periods not winning and still be pretty good. He's been wrong several times doing that. But he was particularly scathing about Bid Spotter. I like the way in Monday's article he tried to deflect from the fact that he got it so wrong, by saying that if Bid Spotter won, well how bad must all the other horses have been. :D

If you go by what he's written on the just racing website today, there's not a single good horse running in the Melbourne Cup.

I think he agrees with me that these type of races are a raffle and best left alone except for the once a year punters who have a lot of fun and enjoyment trying their luck.
I handicap them but only for the intellectual value.
I would never bet in them.



Cheers
darky