Here's a race I spent an appropriate amount of time on.

TRARALGON Race 6

8 PAPA COOL $2.9
3 STAGGER INN $3.1
4 YORGI MILO $10
7 CRACK IT LILEE $15
6 BRIAN BORU $16
5 CADENZIA $20
1 NORTH END $25
2 SHEOAK GRETA $33

PAPA COOL is back from spell here and is easily the best animal in the race , but what it will do tonight is only based on an intelligent guess due to no data on its current fitness.
But that it is decided to go first up over 500 metres suggests to me it is ready to run well.
If ready it wins and if not then Stagger Inn wins.

So as a gambling opportunity it ain't about this or that and times and metres.
Its about a dog being ready.
The other problem is that Stagger Inn has been missing for a month as well.

The available odds will tell me which way to go.

And that will probably be to stay out.
And that is the hardest thing for a Gamblerholic.

Here's my desperado bets so's at least I have something going around.

EXACTA
3 - 6,5 for $1