Horse Racing Singapore and Malaysia

I hope you “survived” last week KL meeting …

It is an interesting outing for me.

Make some small coins but I am happy as long as I am on the positive side.

Here are some of the interesting stats I gathered.

Before that let me clarify some of my own terminology

Sprint Races are 1200, 1300, 1400
Outsiders, I just classify as payout > RM 40
Since this is Malaysia racing, I will use RM and if it is Singapore racing, I will use SG $.

Both days, there are 14 sprint races and 9 races over a mile.

In the sprint races, 6 out of 14 races are won by horses that pay over RM 40.

Combining first, second and third placing for the sprint races, 25 out of 42 ( 3 placing x 14 races ) on board are outsiders.

It is about 60%.

So, if you are betting on favourite like those paying less than RM 20 in sprint races, you are out of luck.

You will be on losing end.

The reason why this happen is very simple … my horse racing sifu from Singapore ( Mr G ) guided me on this during race day.

Told me, don’t look at those donkeys in Class 5. Look for the younger generation.

They are not proven and possibly steal the show.

and he is RIGHT !

For sprint races, here are the count of horses that are on board.

3yo = 13 ( 5 horses won )
4yo = 7 ( 2 horses won )
5yo = 13 ( 5 horses won )
6yo = 4 ( 1 horse won )
7yo = 4 ( 1 horse won )
9yo = 1

Now, you flip through your race card and look for sprint races.

Tell me, is it easier to pick a 3 year old or 5 year old ?

I guess you can easily count how many entries are there for 3 yo.

It is not much …

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts …

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