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Originally Posted by Marlin
I can think of a few reasons.
1) He doesn't want to publicly humiliate a trainer.
2) He doesn't want to publicly out the racing office on a possibly "hustled" horse.
3) 20-1 on a M/L is high enough to get the point across to the public.
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Bookmakers should do this, to spare the feelings of college teams that are 40 point underdogs. They should make them 10 points, and let the public bet them into place.
The third is REALLY nonsense. Horses that are 20-1 on the line are sometimes live, for one thing. For another, if you have a full field there are four horses that are legitimate 50-1 shots are you make them 20-1 that translates to 12 points in the ML that you're off, which will be reflected somewhere else in the line. In other words, you're giving out blatantly wrong information intentionally.
