Your right Puntzy, there is the bookies fav, our own personal fav. and the eventual market fav. based on prize pool.

The race 'fav.' is dependant and unique to every prize pool whether it is a prize pool of an SP Bookie operating from the boot of his car in the outback, or the various TAB's etc.

They might all agree as to eventual fav. in 95%+ of all their 'books', but the 'absolute' fav. would have been the horse who had the most on him from ALL sources. A bit meaningless really.

We make money on our 'fav.' when we are right and vis-a-vis for the Bookies and TAB whose fav. can end up being different, even among the bookies themselves.



Total prize pool [whoever's Book it is] is the only way to work out the race fav. before they jump. Just look at the price-board and the race fav. is plain as day even though it might shift to a different horse before they jump. The last price given decides which horse is the pre-race fav.

There is no other way.

Cheers.


[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2004-05-11 10:27 ]