Review of the Easter Weekend

The trend towards a very high strike rate but relatively short average prices continued over Easter with Marasco winning at odds of around $1.50 and True Persuasion winning at odds of $2. The third How To Win selection London finished fourth. Thus, a profit was readily available for those betting on a straight out basis at flat/level stakes but one still looks forward to a longer priced winner in order to further boost average prices and ipso facto profits being obtained. A central tenet of the How To Win philosophy remains that short-priced winners are better than long-priced losers.
The Easter weekend also saw the successful conclusion of the Oakbank jumps carnival. The South Australian Jockey Club is to be congratulated for its ongoing support for jumps racing in the face of ongoing efforts by the forces of darkness to curtail this integral part of racing.