Originally Posted by crash

Astute thinking guys [just back the good hoops].
It's a wonder that 95% of all other punters came up with that brain-wave too. That's why the odds on these good hoops are usually crap and way unders. To make it worse they lose often enough to make the short odds not worth taking because all the other hoops [some paid] make sure they do everything possible to get in their way or box them in and succeed often enough to make them poor bets in the long run [check the maths of following any good hoop's rides in the bush, you would go broke even if it's Greg Childs], or they are just getting paid enough by a desperate owner to ride a donkey that won't win unless God is in the saddle anyway.