Carryovers

Greyville Net Pick Six C/Over: R 620 311 on Friday 20th February 2009. Race
4 off at 18h35. Estimated Pool: R 2 750 000
Scottsville Net Quartet C/Over: R 56 361 on Sunday 22nd February 2009. Race
10 off at 16h30. Estimated Pool: R 500 000.
Scottsville Net Trifecta C/Over: R 2 183 on Sunday 22nd February 2009. Race
10 off at 16h30. No Estimation.

Ngong(Kenya) Net Pick Six C/Over: R 154 348 on Sunday 22nd February 2009.
Race 2 off at 13h15. Estimated Pool: R 250 000.

scotia, please forgive my ignorance but this has never occurred to me. why is the estimated pool so much bigger than the carryover amount - is it as simple as a prediction that Friday and Sunday racing will generate higher turnovers than the midweek pool that was carried over? the attraction of a bigger pool of itself will attract some punters, possibly a factor too.

Afternoon, not really a exotic/tote player, but based on human nature, this is free money that has been lost once and it generates more interest into a bigger pool, much the same as the lotto, when the word carryover is mentioned more people play and normal players play a bit extra, imo

yeah, but if the last P6 pot at greyville was R600k, what makes them think the next one will be R2.7m??? even if you deduct the R600k in there "for free", that's over 3 times the size.

On weekends gross P6 pools are normally somewhere around 1.3m for Natal and Gauteng meetings. If you add the take out back to the carryover it is approx 830k. So we are really only talking about an extra 600 000 or so.