It's a mugs game!

The Quinlan brothers pulled of a coup with two horses at Lingfield on Thursday. Both horses heavily backed, even though they had been woefully out of form, and both won! The stewards investigated but no action was taken!
On Saturday another one of their horses, royal island, ran at Southwell, again well fancied! The horse was held at the back untill the last 2 furlongs where upon the jockey, with a double handful, switched it to the outside and eased it into 3rd place! He could easily have won but chose not to, obviously stable instructions!
The reason for doing this? Well there are two that i can think off , they are looking to bring its handicap mark down, and its price up, for the next race or someone attached to the stable had layed it (backed the horse to lose)

Over the years i have closely watched hundreds, if not thousands, of horse races and i can honestly say that i have only spotted this happening on a handful of occasions, but it does happen and it is dishonest and unfair to the everyday normal punter, it's hard enough to back a winner, especially on the all weather courses.