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Old 16th December 2003, 10:27 PM
cyriljnr cyriljnr is offline
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Thanks for our comments becareful. Perhaps I'm just a bit slack but it can be painful checking the entire field to see which runners have been affected by scratchings of emergencies especially if there are four in the field. I also say this because while it is easy enough to allow for how scratchings might change things for your selection in a particular race, it becomes harder when you have to check how they could possibly affect the chances of all the perceived main threats to your pick.
The bookies thing is because I'm from S.A where the bookies consistently run books of 140+%. I know there are alternatives but in SA it is the only fixed odds available.
Once again thanks for your thoughts and good hunting.
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