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Originally Posted by thaskalos
That was it. That did it for me. I decided then and there that I was going to be the next Andy Beyer. The very next day I went to the library...and, not finding the Beyer book, I checked out Tom Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing. And the rest, as they say, is history.  |
I got Ainsle's books and booklets and copied down ALL the rules, plus factors - all 57,000 of them - into a little note book.
I would take an hour to do one race, checking off each and every rule and then adding the plus factor and adding the pace ratings.
Talk about FREE PPs, I would go FL every day at 3:00, when the gates opened and they let you in free for the last three races. I would scour the trash cans to find any Forms or partial form I could find, take them home, and work the races, usually NYRA and FL. A LOT of times, I could never find results!
This was in the 70s...very limited data out there - only what you could salvage from the trash!
