OK well this Saturday saw some pretty average tipping by EVERYONE, with just one very, very notable exception:
Well done to Raw Instinct, who found within his six selecions the winner of the 7th race at Flemington, Songs of Vienna. As most would know however Songs of Vienna actually crossed the line in second place and had to win the race in the stewards room on protest. For that reason, I am disallowing his victory on Songs of Vienna and the tip will stand as a losing one.
Just kidding! Well done Raw Instinct. What a gruelling twenty minutes that must have been, pacing up and down, gnawing your finger nails to the nub, swigging straight from the scotch bottle, muttering under your breath, "damn jockeys, I'll show them!" until finally, blessedly, they upheld it!
For the rest of us, for shame.... We were hopeless. The only other person who made a profit on the day was Seeker11 by finding Command and Conquer in Melbourne, well done Seeker you weren't hopeless, but the rest of us were. The rest of us did manage to find 17 winners but a lot of shorties were tipped, like the winner of the first in Sydney which was tipped three times, paying $1.40. Would you actually take the $1.40 if betting? Well, it won I suppose anyway.
Here for the perusal is the updated ladder. It now certainly makes for an interesting comp, with Raw about $10 ahead of the second place. I am glad we can tip any day of the week now, get a chance to catch him!
Here it is. I am going to post another table in a few minutes, updated for Sunday's tips, which starts the new week of the comp, in which we can tip on any day. There were only two of us who tipped yesterday, myself and Chuck. If you want to tip any of the days this week, just post at your leisure!
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