The graveyard is FULL of owners who thought they were being super clever and 'got on' by manipulating/withholding information from the betting public.
Nobody knows with certainty what the outcome of a race will be. Just this week I watched a panel of so called 'experts' effectively stick the entire punting market away by sagely advising us that Perana would win the Summer Cup. And that form is/was supposedly exposed........
Having owned horses since 1978 I can tell you that the best decision I ever made was to stop backing my own horses and reduce my racing betting to the bare minimum on the back of the realisation that the game is fundamentally flawed and probably outright crooked in more than just isolated cases. Owner judgement is just too clouded by hope and greed. No matter how 'good a thing' a runner may appear to be statistics confirm that a good percentage of them still get beaten.
Nevertheless - that an owner should have some sort of 'divine right' to the betting market has always amazed me.
The irony is that people with this view cannot seem to make the connection between this type of thinking and declining interest in the sport. They got away with it in the past only because information was not as accessible or as rapidly disseminated as it is today. Nowadays any contentious issue can ( and will be ) all over the internet within minutes; unlike the 'old days' when a large percentage of the affected group was not even aware of what had happened.
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