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Originally Posted by 098poi
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.’ ”
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This was a phrase borrowed from Robert Saunders Dowst...who wrote in one of his early handicapping books (and I paraphrase):
"The reason for the total lack of intelligent books on the subtle art of handicapping is because the horseplayer is exactly the sort of person that one seldom finds within a 20-mile radius of a bookstore."
