[AusRace] TM Way - a system

[Tony Moffat]

TM (it's not me) trained 12 at Goulburn. 

He had paddocks outside town and a sand track alongside the rail line that
took him to the course (now moved).

It would have been a challenge taking a flighty thoroughbred along that
track, held back by a 4 stone nothing kid, with an enormous Garratt chuffing
at you, heading south. Anyway, that's what they done, as they say in
Goulburn.

TM had a good one, it won 6, 3 in a row and after that winning spell the
owners moved it to a new trainer. Some of his horses were owned by a
disparate group of owners, not all of them involved in each horse, some
here, some there, and one fellow had one share in one horse. This bloke
became the spokesman and the new trainer of the four horses removed was his
brother at Jerangle. Long story short is this. The four horses didn't do
very well while in the care of the new trainer and after a few runs, and
losses, meaning nothing to aid the paying of bills, back they came to TM who
re-invigorated them and they won some, placed more often and racing them
paid for them, as it should.

Now TM had $200 on his runners, surely on the best of them, and lesser
amounts on others if they were in the same race. I mean prizemoney was $75
and the punt was another way of making ends meet. You could sell the manure
and the urine soaked hay, but that is a story for another time, maybe never.

TM shared ownership of some of his, his wife worked with him, as did his
daughter who seemed to be the person in charge. He didn't tip, his advice
was predictable, as in 'well, it's in the race and it might win, they do
that sometimes you know'. If he winked, well then, that might be something,
but he never winked before he bet, for good reason maybe. My boss, Terry,
often asked him for his opinion, about his, or some other local runner, and
the answer was predictable. Then he talked about the weather, his knee or
the carillon bells - which seemed to be tolled by a mad man at mid day,
goodness. 

The point of all this is to state that TM was somehow proof that change of
trainer was beneficial to horses. Newcomers to his stables (he called them
rooms) could be depended on to win from their first outing until their
fourth then they were spelled, or correctly, terrorised by snakes out near
Lake Bathurst were snake catchers made a handsome living. Seriously.

This good horse belonging to TM (Beau Knock?) was 6/1 in a race with two
even (yes, 1/1) favourites and another at 4/1 and others much longer. It
won, that 6/1 horse, and TM had the statutory $200 on it with us. TM had one
of the favourites also, and another long in price. He did back his
favourite, but not with $200, but as a saver. He backed the longer priced
horse, for a place, on the Tote. His backing the winner caused some
consternation with some owners. Again the spokesman was the man with one
share in one horse. You know what, once again TM had horses transferred away
from him, to Boorowa now, and without a good and sufficient reason that he
knew of. He had other runners in varying stages of fitness and preparation
and some of those came in from snakesville. I bet those transferred horses
didn't win further out either.

There are no results to demonstrate the efficacy of the system element -
changing trainers leads to a win. It does, but not for reasons discussed,
the winners had other attributes as well in addition to a new address.

Cheers

Tony


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