Edgar Allan Poe and Handicapping....

[Donnie]

....what the hell have I been missing all these years?

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Poe-Reader_W0QQitemZ350144900951QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_ Nonfiction_Book?hash=item350144900951&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Must be the Da Vinci Code of Horseracing......

[stu]

You never read his short story "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/2199/

Within you might find some handicapping lessons:

"The fact is that his precocity in vice was awful. At five months of age he
used to get into such passions that he was unable to articulate. At six
months, I caught him gnawing a pack of cards. At seven months he was in
the constant habit of catching and kissing the female babies. At eight
months he peremptorily refused to put his signature to the Temperance
pledge. Thus he went on increasing in iniquity, month after month, until,
at the close of the first year, he not only insisted upon wearing
moustaches, but had contracted a propensity for cursing and swearing, and
for backing his assertions by bets."

[JustRalph]

I hope anybody using Poe to Handicap would have made this bet on the Classic

Poe wrote "The Raven"

The winner of the Breeder's Cup Classic

Raven's Pass


Coincidence ? A 29 dollar Coincidence........?

[Pace Cap'n]

Interesting that it is listed in "Books-nonfiction". Poe = nonfiction? Does that mean all those stories were actually TRUE?

[CincyHorseplayer]

Based on some of the chirping I'd say "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" is more appropriate.Or Perhaps "The Man That Was Used Up"!

[garyoz]

D.H. Lawrence: "Rocking Horse Winner" short story, IMHO the most interesting racing related fiction....saw a film dramatization of it when I was a kid--never forgot it.

http://www.dowse.com/fiction/Lawrence.html

[Overlay]

For me the connection between handicapping and Poe is the answer to the question: When should you bet on underlays?

Nevermore.

[toetoe]

gary,

I believe that starred the GREAT John Mills. :ThmbUp: .

[JohnGalt1]

D.H. Lawrence: "Rocking Horse Winner" short story, IMHO the most interesting racing related fiction....saw a film dramatization of it when I was a kid--never forgot it.

http://www.dowse.com/fiction/Lawrence.html


Great movie.

Just saw it a few weeks ago on TCM.