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Originally Posted by Blenheim
The Dean of Handicapping, Mr. Richard Carter, also known as Tom Ainslie, lived a long life, he passed away at age 89.
At a speech he advised, "read everything you can lay you hands on" about racing and practice for months by handicapping from previous charts before going to the mutuel windows. As he put it, without preparation "you're never going to become proficient unless there is something in your genes that would have made you a safecracker." Richard Carter, Author of Racing Guides, Dies at 89 |
This is from the article when he first got in to racing and tried to find books on the subject and found there were none.
“ ‘The reason they don’t publish books for horseplayers,’ explained one merchant, ‘is that horseplayers can’t read.’ ”
