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JK wrote:

Spargo wrote:True story - I was at Flemington a few years ago with 3 mates who were all tied up in the racing industry one way or another. We’re alive in the quaddie going into the last leg. First leg paid $8, second $28, third $15. We’ve got five of the 13 runners in the last. They’re paying $2.80, $5, $8, $15 & $26.
We’ve got it going for 50%, approximates are $15k with the fave upwards of $46k with the $26 pop. We’ve got 1st, 2nd, 3rd as they cross the line in a photo. YES! The fave, the $5 shot & the roughie in the print. The fave just gets it over the roughie - nearly $16k difference in our return, F#CK! As they’re heading back to scale one of the blokes I was with goes over to the fence and tells the jockey on the second placed horse (who I won’t name), to protest against the winner. There was some “shifting in” in the straight he said. The jockey said it was minimal but he’d see. Next thing the protest siren sounds.
Second v first for interference in the final 200m of the home straight. I couldn’t believe what was going on (I learnt later this bloke had a lot of pull*)
Anyways 5, 10 then 15 minutes go by. “PROTEST UPHELD”
We pocketed just under $6k each.

Love reading yarns like this, that's a cracking story!!

JK wrote:Not as juicy as Spargo's, but I remember being with my mate at the Lockley's Hotel for 2009 Melbourne Cup day. I used to always over capitalise on the Cup itself so that year I made a rule and said just the one W/P bet, so chucked $50ew on Shocking. Beautiful, thats worked out well. After that the suds are kicking in nicely combined with the knowledge it's not going to be a losing day. Mates losing all day then lands a $20 shot in the penultimate race and we're firing on all cylinders and decide to box 4 horses up for a Tri in the last. Get to the Tab counter, lady tells me one of them's scratched, so I get her to replace it with her favourite number. Watch the race, we have the 2nd place, Tab chick picked 3rd, but alas we've missed the winner. Check the ticket before discarding and wait a minute, we have all 3, WTF? Check the other side to find that I'd accidentally brushed over No. 8 with the faintest stroke of the pen, so that had been included. Think it turned our $20 into $900

JK wrote:Not as juicy as Spargo's, but I remember being with my mate at the Lockley's Hotel for 2009 Melbourne Cup day. I used to always over capitalise on the Cup itself so that year I made a rule and said just the one W/P bet, so chucked $50ew on Shocking. Beautiful, thats worked out well. After that the suds are kicking in nicely combined with the knowledge it's not going to be a losing day. Mates losing all day then lands a $20 shot in the penultimate race and we're firing on all cylinders and decide to box 4 horses up for a Tri in the last. Get to the Tab counter, lady tells me one of them's scratched, so I get her to replace it with her favourite number. Watch the race, we have the 2nd place, Tab chick picked 3rd, but alas we've missed the winner. Check the ticket before discarding and wait a minute, we have all 3, WTF? Check the other side to find that I'd accidentally brushed over No. 8 with the faintest stroke of the pen, so that had been included. Think it turned our $20 into $900

Lightning McQueen wrote:

JK wrote:Not as juicy as Spargo's, but I remember being with my mate at the Lockley's Hotel for 2009 Melbourne Cup day. I used to always over capitalise on the Cup itself so that year I made a rule and said just the one W/P bet, so chucked $50ew on Shocking. Beautiful, thats worked out well. After that the suds are kicking in nicely combined with the knowledge it's not going to be a losing day. Mates losing all day then lands a $20 shot in the penultimate race and we're firing on all cylinders and decide to box 4 horses up for a Tri in the last. Get to the Tab counter, lady tells me one of them's scratched, so I get her to replace it with her favourite number. Watch the race, we have the 2nd place, Tab chick picked 3rd, but alas we've missed the winner. Check the ticket before discarding and wait a minute, we have all 3, WTF? Check the other side to find that I'd accidentally brushed over No. 8 with the faintest stroke of the pen, so that had been included. Think it turned our $20 into $900

When Willie Pike is on a favourite we always go Field/Willie/Field, last year we're in the pub and there were 3 of us with a kitty in front of us when on one of the screens 14 minutes away Ascot R4 with Pike as the fave.

Someone spots it and we all agree to bet on it, we were taking turns in filling out the tickets unless you won, then you kept going, the race comes on, a screaming $80 roughie gets up, Willie 2nd then another zebra-like mule gets 3rd, we're hi-fiving waiting for the screen to show us like a $10K tri when I asked where's the ticket? No one filled it out!!!

It still gets a mention from the locals at the pub when we go there.

Spargo wrote:Ouch.

Lightning McQueen wrote:What's everyone's biggest win?

Lightning McQueen wrote:What's everyone's biggest win?

Bum Crack wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:What's everyone's biggest win?

mine is bugger all but my missus has had some good wins. She jagged a $76k quaddie a few years ago and had 25% and she's had a $44k quaddie prior to that. I was playing golf at the time and she called me to let me know she'd got it and I was playing with the Finance Manager for the Berri Hotel at the time. I told him about it and how I thought she was taking the piss. Next minute he gets a call from the pub as she'd gone in to collect and he wanted to know if it was ok to give her $10k cash and do a cheque for the balance. We got poleaxed that night.

Booney wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:What's everyone's biggest win?

$4250 from 50% of a quaddie in Brisbane about 8 years ago.

JK wrote:Not as juicy as Spargo's, but I remember being with my mate at the Lockley's Hotel for 2009 Melbourne Cup day. I used to always over capitalise on the Cup itself so that year I made a rule and said just the one W/P bet, so chucked $50ew on Shocking. Beautiful, thats worked out well. After that the suds are kicking in nicely combined with the knowledge it's not going to be a losing day. Mates losing all day then lands a $20 shot in the penultimate race and we're firing on all cylinders and decide to box 4 horses up for a Tri in the last. Get to the Tab counter, lady tells me one of them's scratched, so I get her to replace it with her favourite number. Watch the race, we have the 2nd place, Tab chick picked 3rd, but alas we've missed the winner. Check the ticket before discarding and wait a minute, we have all 3, WTF? Check the other side to find that I'd accidentally brushed over No. 8 with the faintest stroke of the pen, so that had been included. Think it turned our $20 into $900

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Bum Crack wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:What's everyone's biggest win?

mine is bugger all but my missus has had some good wins. She jagged a $76k quaddie a few years ago and had 25% and she's had a $44k quaddie prior to that. I was playing golf at the time and she called me to let me know she'd got it and I was playing with the Finance Manager for the Berri Hotel at the time. I told him about it and how I thought she was taking the piss. Next minute he gets a call from the pub as she'd gone in to collect and he wanted to know if it was ok to give her $10k cash and do a cheque for the balance. We got poleaxed that night.

****!!! Is she really cluey with the nags or just pot luck?

I find that I do better when I don't think about things, if I go to the pub with the mindset of pinking the same numbers every race I generally do alright if I'm patient enough.

I like picking 6 to beat 1,2,3,4,5 in a tri.
Boxing 1,2,3,10,11 or 10,11,12,13,14.

Bum Crack wrote:She used to punt all the time. Would get the winning post, best bets and Advertiser form guide and study every Friday night until midnight and up first thing sat morning to listen to race previews etc. She was a very good punter but when she took up golf a couple years ago, she basically stopped as she didn't have the time to study them. She only has one bet a week now (the top weight in Melbourne in the last every Saturday). That has always been her omen bet from day one.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Bum Crack wrote:She used to punt all the time. Would get the winning post, best bets and Advertiser form guide and study every Friday night until midnight and up first thing sat morning to listen to race previews etc. She was a very good punter but when she took up golf a couple years ago, she basically stopped as she didn't have the time to study them. She only has one bet a week now (the top weight in Melbourne in the last every Saturday). That has always been her omen bet from day one.

Come through often?

I seem to find that R8 at Morphy each Saturday is rough as guts, and it often involves Ryan Hurdle somewhere amongst the placings.

Spargo wrote: When we went to collect, the penciller yelled out to the bookie “These are the c#nts that got on after the race”. The bookie was ropable, literally shaking with rage. He was spitting as he yelled at us. Called us every name in the book.
But he had to pay us

heater31 wrote:

Spargo wrote: When we went to collect, the penciller yelled out to the bookie “These are the c#nts that got on after the race”. The bookie was ropable, literally shaking with rage. He was spitting as he yelled at us. Called us every name in the book.
But he had to pay us

Well who is the dumb **** leaving the odds up and accepting the bet [emoji849]