First race at Flamingo Park :(

Have had a couple of calls from bookies and punters with regards the first race and after listening to the calls it does seem rather "unethical" what took place and many early bets etc were probably struck on the wrong horse and a few strikes on the money horse, what are your views on this as far as the trainer etc?
Did he only discover this morning that the other one was the better horse was the question put to me?

Your views please

Betting patterns looked at you think?

I see we have a couple of posts on the subject, maybe an enquiry from the NHRA would be in order, not very good for the image of racing imo

All done to help Marcus win the championship

Totally unethical imo, Delpech looks to have scored an own goal by staying away, but Punters, Bookies and Racing in general were the losers with such underhandedness going on, certainly will not improve the profile of Racing8-)

The same happened on friday in the 2nd race with Bremmer horses only differince it backfired the horse got beat!

Agreed - the same trick was tried past Friday between Sublime and Babette. Babette opened 14/1 with A Andrews on and Sublime 15/10. Late afternoon Thursday Marcus was put on Babette and they put the money down! This however backfired but needs to be looked at as it seems people are not exploiting this situation.

Ships Gossip, who do you want Delpech to go to Kimberley and ride for ? Sherman Brown has the Rugg job, Gunter and Anton have the Peter Miller horses, Naude for Spies etc. Who do you expect him to pick up winning mounts from ?

The mind boggles at some of the crap I read on this site.

Give your head a shake harris,what did you think of the first race?

Hibs, believe it or not Miller actually had the punters interests at heart.Wrogemann would have won on it had he remained on board. I do not think Miller swapped jocks for any other reason than to give Marcus a winner. Had he really wanted to pull a move he would have left everything as is. The winner was not backed yesterday and the 6/1 was only taken by some shrewdies who saw the change early this morning.

Miller also came on tv to say he preferred the winner. What I cannot fathom is why he never had Marcus on in the first place.

in saying this Harris, why wasn't Marcus on Rebel Moon, Ed's Angel or Zorba???

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> in saying this Harris, why wasn't Marcus on Rebel
> Moon, Ed's Angel or Zorba???

Are you really suggesting that Miller knew all of that lot would win? Trainers may know their horses, but they aren't psychic.