Shoto,

I know where your comming from and in principal agree as it is the same for a win bet.

However, it is a hard task to plonk money down on a horse paying 1.10 for the place or worse, the ones we regularly see paying "money back" after the jump and you can't do anything about it. If the horse dosn't place you loose your money and if it wins you get it back without a cent profit!

I backed five odds-on horses [amongst three others that won thank god] on Thursday as I thought they looked safe money. They all lost. Luckily I didn't back them for a place as it would have hurt a lot worse.

Moral? I will now stick to the wise council and maxims of past punting sages [never bet odds-on]that I have usualy got by on nicely and not to anything I read in this forum because as those sages say, "what can go wrong, often does" [five times in a row and I mean losses on those five races with three zeros ]. A very good lesson from the past.

Cheers and good punting to all.

[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2003-09-06 07:06 ]