Well, the betting has been open for over 3 hours now and there have been some interesting fluctuations. Brittain is into $3 (2/1) and Burbridge has eased out to $5.
Others who have been well supported in the last 3 hours are
John Adams from $31 into $26.
Tom Burbidge from $31 to $21.
Doug Greenough $61 to $41
Ryan Hoffman from $101 to $51.
Mitchell Watt from $13 to $9
and the most interesting & possibly biggest mover in terms of money required to change the odds -
Ben Weaver from $34 into $17
Weaver is a young lad off the novice mark trained down on the Mornington Peninsula (Victoria) by Paul Bolton.
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.
Intriguing…