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!!
Yeah, most of mine are around the other way.
When I was about 18-19 I went to the pub with my cricket mates as the rain came in, I always put money on anything that started with the name "Miss", I had $20 on something paying 25's and it lost in a photo, there was then a protest to which it was upheld.
I didn't realise at the time what upheld meant and ditched my ticket only to see my horse listed as the winner the next morning when I was reading the Sunday Mail, $500 clams 25 years ago would've been a huge night, it was a costly learning curve.