"Late mail" - that's an absolute joke. I'm amazed some punters take those consistent losing or poor value selections seriously. Late mail is often nothing more than a racecaller's tips. Maybe even the office boy's. It's consistently bad.

Tell me which stable, trainer, owner is so stupd as to give serious winning "Late mail" to be telegraphed to everyone in the mass media?

The David Hayes trained first starter I Got Chills was plunged at Flemington on 1st. October from $14.00 to $5.00 and won by many lengths. Bet you that one wasn't announced over the TV, radio or whatever as "Late Mail". If David Hayes had told the media it was a moral, you can bet David Hayes wouldn't be training it any longer!

As for the accuracy of those "plunge" calls. They are invariably useless. Often they are nothing more than a fictitious "firming" on the tote which does not even correlate with firming in the bookmakers' betting ring. The horse could even be easing in the bookies' betting ring.

Why a "fictious" firming? Because there is a game of pretend going on - the pretense is that the tote and bookies market are similar which is absolute ****.

If a horse firms in the bookies betting ring you know at least someone is getting the longer odds. If a horse "firms" in the tote you know noone is getting the longer odds.