Reckless, with my limited experience with U.K. racing, I am under the impression that more of the larger outsiders win here than over there.

If this is so, maybe it could be due to us having more race tracks, so that a horse may have little or no experience with some tracks? Some states have clockwise and others anti-clockwise directions. Some tracks can have very tight bends whilst others not. Unpredictable weather so that some days we have all four seasons in the one day - running on a good track and then its next race on a rain affected one?

Of course, this may just all be conjecture on my part, but it does seem to me that fewer outsiders win in the U.K. than they do here.