If you're one of the many with the sneaking suspicion this season's results have been very different from last season's, then you are bang on the money.
About now we have a look back at some of the season's stats, particularly with reference to betting and last year the statistics were all about what a tough year it was for punters.
It was all about a record-low average win dividend of $86.23 for your $10, a record-low average price of the favourite at $29.84 and how the 'roughies' had become rough in performance as well as price.
So depending on how you play, 2011-12 was a welcome change in the opposite direction, or a really tough year - because outsiders were back. Big time.
In the 2010-11 season of the 'price stompers' that were so accurate at times, outsiders struggled - 41 winners at 25-1 or better, only eight of them were 50-1 or higher and only two at triple-figure odds in 767 races.
This season isn't over yet and already we've have 57 heroes over 25-1, with 18 of those over 50-1 and five that have arrived at 100-1 or more.