I think this is clearly a case of 'mug' punters seeing the two taurus horses(great training and breeding effort mind you) and quinella-ing them.

Totally spot on Umrum. There wasn't anything underhanded, illegal or sneaky going on.

It was mug punters' money pure and simple. Just a whole lot of people who spotted a Terrific Taurus and a Terrible Taurus in the same race and thought 'What a great quinella! I just have to put a couple of bucks on that.'




[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2003-12-15 15:04 ]

and to make it worse they would have been spruiking in the pub tabs left right and centre; " just got a $100 quinella", should have been a $1000 Q.

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umrum

Can't see what all the fuss is about - obviously the name element being picked up by the mugs. Tabcorp had just over $30,000 in the Quinella pool so bit over $180 worth of winning tickets.

I think anyone complaining about this needs to consider whether they should be betting exotics where you have no control over the price you get! Then again I don't remember seeing any complaints when a quinella or trifects pays MORE than the estimates you get by looking at the respective win prices :smile:

have you ever heard of anyone complaining when they get MORE than they should have and/or expected to get BC. I know punters often say what a great divy which is in a sense praise for the tabs and now it is criticism. Which is justified in this case.

cheers
umrum

some truth in umrums comment.
recently backed romar dale at $29
very disappointed when forced to take $89 dividend.

Comment in the sydney paper today on the quinella divi in NSW where the pool was $75k but a very high number of tickets coupling the taurus horses. Even more popular than coupling some of the favoured horses.

Yeah, just what I thought.

In fact, I'd suggest the quinella dividend would probably have been higher if the favourite Sunshine Sam had run second!!!

[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2003-12-16 08:48 ]

Purpleheart,

What do you want the TAB's to do about it? Not a doubt in the world it was the mug punter approach to picking names that caused this divvy to be 1/10th of what it should be. If you can legislate against that you'll rub out about 80% of the money invested through TAB's each race.

A similar thing happened at Canterbury night races a couple of years back when Woodlands/Hawkes had the tri. From memory all three were around $8-$12 mark and the tri paid $190. In the field of 14 or so it should have paid $1000. Big Jack might have had something to do with it or it could have been the mugs following a stable blindly.

Yeah, you can't have it both ways. I mean, all that money on the Taurus horses means that there would have been an above average dividend had any of the more favoured combinations come home. Let's face it... this was the sort of freaky result that happens once every blue moon, so there's no need to worry about it.

It reminds me of something that happened with the Lotto a few years back. There was some confusion when the first division paid an incredibly miniscule amount compared to the normal first division prize. Well, this is what happened. The 6 winning numbers when marked off on the Lotto coupon formed a pattern in the shape of a star and hundreds of people all over Australia had marked that pattern on their coupons!!!

[ This Message was edited by: sportznut on 2003-12-16 17:33 ]