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If going on a Tiki Tour of the South Island to partake in some of their magnificent hospitality and a bit of punting, make sure you pack a blindfold and a dart, along with an up-to-date liftout formguide from the Herald or Dominion, in your travel bag. On the morning of the races, pin the form guide on the wall, put the blindfold on, and throw the dart, being careful to point yourself in the general direction of the form guide beforehand. Take whatever horse the dart pierces.
Going by the statistics of the performances of favourites on various tracks throughout the country, this is as good a method as any for finding winners in the South. Currently, South Island tracks hold 9 of the 10 worst places for return on dollar invested on the win tote for the TAB favourite. For example, since 1997, if you had bet on every favourite at Kumara, you would have received back a paltry 59c per dollar invested.
Conversely, North Island tracks hold 13 of the best 14 positions in the table.

Track Races Wins S.Rate Return
44. RANGIORA 203 53 26.1% 10.9 $0.79
45. OMAKAU 137 37 27.0% 10.1 $0.79
46. CROMWELL 159 41 25.8% 10.8 $0.77
47. WINTON 148 40 27.0% 10.1 $0.77
48. THAMES 155 43 27.7% 10.0 $0.76
49. GORE 405 105 25.9% 10.3 $0.74
50. GREYMOUTH 164 41 25.0% 9.2 $0.72
51. MOTUKARARA 120 31 25.8% 10.5 $0.70
52. HOKITIKA 98 23 23.5% 8.4 $0.63
53. KUMARA 124 23 18.5% 10.1 $0.59


Full and current table is here : http://www.racebase.co.nz/tracks.htm

This should be good news for me then as I rarely back the favourite

Larry