LOCATING THE WINNERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 14

LOCATING THE WINNERS.

LIMIT HORSES FAVOURED. LAST SEASON'S RECORD. As has frsquentlv lieen pointed out in these columns, it is about an.even money chance that the winner of any l-f.c-fi in tintrotting sport is handicapped on the limit. The further a horse is handicapped back it naturally follows his prospects 01 winning are lessened. The Wellington writer "Overcheck" has gone to the_ trouble ot checking over the results ot the past season, and lie publishes two returns, showing: (a) The number of races won by the various favourites throughout t.ie year; and (b) the marks on which the various dividend payers were handicapped. The variance in tire various totals to the respective columns is due to "dead-heats, ' and the fact that in the second return he has not taken into account the two Derbies, the Sapling Stakes, and a Free-for-all. The figures again emphasise, the fact that investors do best who eonhne their consideration to horses well backed on the machine, and which are on or near the front of the handicap. In almost every case where horses have won from further back than OOydc. the races have been confined to unhoppled trotters. The figures are as follow: — Order of ' Times, favouritism. First. Second. 1 230 134 ' 103 140 | " ft 7 119 4 7.-. or r, .-ft 73 t; 30 "'0 7 30 43 5 18 lift ft 1"> -'1 1 10 23 11 « 13 1 r, s 1;: 2 1 14 — 2 1 r. 1 2 ic 1 — 1!) 1 — 758 755 ITan dirnp Times. 111 a ric. First. Second. Si-.' 384 330 lL'.vds 128 14.". 24y.1i S7 Bft 30yds 50 00 48y<la 47 3!) OO.vds 18 28 72yds 14 21 S4.vd:l 7 12 ftOydtl 0 4 108 yds 3 ■ 3 120yd;i -J 5 132 yd I 1 1 14 4yd j — 1 228 yds 1 _ 754 750