12/1 Synchronised

[erhaab1965]

I was informed last night that Lad- brokes were going to go 12/1 for Synchronised for the Grand National . I waited for it to appear on their website till a little after midnight but it did not appear. I rang my friend to get on in the shops first thing in the morning as I was going to go to sleep and by the time i get up it may have been slashed. He rang me this morning and told me all I could have was £50 at 12/1 and the rest at 9/1 so he just accepted the £50. Obviously this comes as no surprise as this has been standard for years and years. Don't you think this is crooked practice . I didn't watch the Morning Line this morning cos it was on too early but I'm sure Lad-brokes got a lot of free publicity for being best industry price for this horse , when in reality we punters cannot get a decent bet on . A few minutes before the off Gary Wiltshire the betting reporter for the BBC claimed Ladbrokes laid a bet of £50,000 at 12/1 . All I could get on at that price was a bet a thousand times smaller , do you think there was a bit of b*llsh*t going on , on behalf of Lad-brokes ? Did anyone on here get more than £50 or were you the one who got £50,000 on .

[Darran]

Didn't really get that much publicity on the morning line to be fair. If they did take that bet then you can be certain it will be from one of their profitable punters. I am always highly suspect of these supposedly large bets placed though. Sent from my HTC Desire S using PL Forum