Burbidge wins Stawell 2010

[Sharmer]

@John

How do the Police not get involved in this scam? As posted by Youngy after betting had been opened for 3 hours

[i]Tom Burbidge from $31 to $21.

Burbidge is very interesting one because he has run as recently as Sunday at St Bernards, failing to show anything that would suggest he would do well over 120m at Stawell. He has had the biggest lift of any athlete this season going from 7.25m to 8.75m. He ran 12.33 in his heat last year off 7.25m so the 1.50m lift seems very generous but his recent form suggests he needs that and a lot more. he is trained by Matt Beckenham in Canberra who has 11 athletes going to Stawell.[/i]

so some people knew his back was going to be ok and would have made a packet.

$40k winners check - $5k fine is still a good pay day! :rolleyes:

1- The punters tend to exaggerate the volume of money bet on Stawell gift runners- I remember backing Fabrice the year he was DQ from 50-1 to 7-1 and didn’t put down more than 1k.

2- The 5 k fine is inconsistent and unfair- I remember when Tony Fairweather trained Josh Ross won in 03. No fine was issued when Josh was running 12.6 all season and dropped 11.87 at Stawell; Tony even said after the race that the secret to winning Stawell is to get under the radar of the handicapper.

You will find ample examples of reversal of form of past Stawell gift winners- where’s the justice by fining runners now?