You are right Sportz. I don't have to bet on the quaddie but I seem to have a masochistic fascination with them.
Snagged one once for an outlay of $12-00 and have been hooked ever since.
I find it hard to believe that the race clubs are not in cahoots with the TAB and are probably dictated to about which races to programme in the quaddie.
Quite often now, maidens are programmed into the quaddie even when there are better class races available.
It is a real conundrum for punters when a lot of entries in the maiden event are 1st. starters or resuming from a spell.
I wrote on this forum once that when a trainer turns up with an unraced, untrialled in public maiden and the horse anchors the quadrella at big odds and wins, he and a select few are in a privileged position compared to the general punting public.
My point was that I see no difference in this practice and that of insider trading on the stock market for which Rene Rivken was sentenced to gaol.
Cheers