1st March 2005, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Sportz
Remember Aunty Mary from back in the 90s? A very handy mare which ended up winning over 1/2 a million dollars, but she certainly wasn't any champion. Well, she used to run in all the big races against horses like Filante, Juggler, Doriemus, Jeune, Mahogany etc and pretty much every time she did, she opened up favourite on the tote. Obviously everyone that had an Aunty Mary must have backed her.
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Aunty Mary was Ok as a performer but she nearly always came up favourite on the tote and just about always started as too short of a price and did only win 9 races from 71 starts.
Another 'Aunty' who often raced well under the odds she should have was Aunty Hilda who won a mere 6 races from 50. In her last 39 starts she went to the post 27 times at single figure odds for just five wins @ odds of: 4/6F: 11/2: 6/4F: 4/5F: 5/2, a loss of close to 50%.
Anyone who wants to lay on Betfair, such as Mark, should always be on the lookout for these types, they invariably will be under their true odds.
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