I don't generally do place betting but I have noticed an anomoly that may be off benefit to those who like short odds-on bets. If you have a strong odds-on favourite ($1.20-$1.40) the place quote on TAB will usually be $1.00-$1.10. What you need to look for is a horse where the place is sitting on $1.00 about 5 minutes before the race and stays there until the last minute. What seems to happen is that the punters avoid the place bet as they can see there is no return and instead put their place bets on the "value" runners in the race - more often than not the place div actually declared will be $1.20 or $1.30 and is often the same as the win div (on Tabcorp anyway) - there was one race yesterday where the odd-on fav won and paid $1.20 the win and $1.30 the place. Note that this only seems to happen when the place quote is $1.00 - if it is showing as say $1.20 then it is more likely to go the other way and only pay $1.00. Of course I would only suggest you do this if you are really sure the horse is going to run a place!

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