G'day. You're right Neil. We've got plenty of on-line totes/bookies/exchanges to scan through, looking for "better" prices, if we wish to do so.
Tailwag. Write that book!!!!!
You're right about picking up on "who's who" when you're on-course;though, since I'm following the longer-priced runners, the trainer is often the one to "sniff" around. Sometimes this means actually seeing some lesser-known trainer (who knows what these one's look like?)puttimg a few hundred on some rank outsider, but this is VERY difficult. However, when you spot something "suspicious" with a trainer you DO recognise, then you have to start snooping.
For example (I already mentioned this once before) I saw Bruce McLachlan sitting in the owner's box at a mid-week Brisbane meeting when a 33-1 shot bolted in and the jubilation thereafter between Bruce and the two owners. The point, however,was that BM had THREE horses in that race, with not a sign of the (beaten, more-favoured) horseowners anywhere!! Lesson drawn: when Bruce has the horse "ready" he only bothers calling the "right" owner to sit with. Find out which horse that bloke with Bruce owns!!!!