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Originally Posted by mountainman
True, a sharp player's confidence factor might soar when he is super-informed about the stock, but that's just one side of the equation. My point was sophisticated handicappers can widen their advantage even more (if just a bit) when less known commodities (invading horses) are added to the mix. A little uncertainty (in the form of semi-informed) speculation is not a bad thing when baked into the bottom line.
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I agree, but within limits.
One of the reasons I've been looking at biases at multiple track for quite awhile now is that I'm hoping one the horses that ran against the grain will ship somewhere where the locals won't know about it. In fact, I used one yesterday that finished 2nd at 15-1. But that kind of stuff is wildly time consuming. There only so many race cards and replays you can look at. So I'm still stuck with loads of shippers I'm less sure how to evaluate than the horses I follow closely.
