Also a market that the bookies love, of course, as they cynically add new runners to already well-over 100% books - meaning those who place their bets early are betting into a market that may not even contain the winner.
Of course these days they cover their asses with a mealy-mouthed "
Other runners may be added" rider. But in earlier years they didn't even bother with that - fully intending in pocketing the lot should a late-comer ever triumph. Thank God, as yet, it has never come off for them.
