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09-29-2018, 08:07 PM
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Smarty Pants
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Incidentally, Dick Mitchell knew quite a lot about Math and Formulas and even Calculus.
But the question is . . .
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09-30-2018, 07:54 PM
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Librocubicularist
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Originally Posted by Light
As a handicapper for 35 years, my two favorite books during my formative years may have been
Modern Pace handicapping by Brohamer and
Pace makes the Race by Sartin, Pizzolla, Hambleton and Schmidt
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I have a copy of Pace Makes the Race. It's by Hambleton and Schmidt. Sartin and Pizzolla don't seem to be on the title page.
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09-30-2018, 08:00 PM
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Librocubicularist
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When I was 16 my dad or my uncle had to make my bets for me. I wasn't allowed anywhere near the windows.
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09-30-2018, 09:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Actor
I have a copy of Pace Makes the Race. It's by Hambleton and Schmidt. Sartin and Pizzolla don't seem to be on the title page.
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You have the large softcover version which came later. The earlier hardcover one had more pages...and included the names of Sartin and Pizzolla on the cover.
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10-01-2018, 07:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Actor
When I was 16 my dad or my uncle had to make my bets for me. I wasn't allowed anywhere near the windows.
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I secretly do my bets at a ABM. But one night the machine was not working so I went up to the teller and she was like “oh you can put your bets in here sir”
But she never acknowledged that there was a Pick 6 at penn national so I to be separate pick 3’s
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10-01-2018, 08:23 AM
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Registered User
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Actor
Then get a math textbook and read it. When you get to college take a course in statistics.
It amazes me that writers of most handicapping books don't seem to know math. They take pages to explain how to do a calculation that could be expressed in a single formula. Some may be trying to dumb it down for their readers. Maybe they get paid by the word.
Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing is a must read just for the background if nothing else.
The best is Winning at the Race Track by William Quirin. You have to be able to handle the math.
Learn to program a computer. Write your own software.
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Couldn't agree more. You have to learn something about statistics to understand the studies.
Quirin's Winning at the Races is the best I've read. He puts things in language any intelligent person can understand. Guess that's why he's a professor.
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10-02-2018, 10:25 AM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Originally Posted by bobphilo
Couldn't agree more. You have to learn something about statistics to understand the studies.
Quirin's Winning at the Races is the best I've read. He puts things in language any intelligent person can understand. Guess that's why he's a professor.
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I wonder how much of Quirin's stuff actually held up over larger sample sizes. They were pretty small if memory serves, obviously being limited for several reasons at the time.
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10-02-2018, 10:51 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Shouldn't you be reading SCHOOLBOOKS at 16 years-old?
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I got more out of Beyer than I did Thoreau.
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10-02-2018, 01:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom
I got more out of Beyer than I did Thoreau.
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They didn't teach about Thoreau in my HS. I did read him on my own when I was 16 but none of my classmates knew about him. They were mainly interested in sex, drugs and RR.
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10-02-2018, 01:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cj
I wonder how much of Quirin's stuff actually held up over larger sample sizes. They were pretty small if memory serves, obviously being limited for several reasons at the time.
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None of it. Quirin was hired to do his research by the legendary gambler "Al Fransesco"...but Fransesco rejected Quirin's findings because they didn't hold up to a more thorough scrutiny. Of course...this didn't stop Quirin from publishing the results on his own...and making a name for himself in spite of his research's questionable nature.
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10-02-2018, 02:51 PM
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I want to point out that there is a big difference between a 16yo LEARNING about the mechanics of horse racing and BETTING on horse racing. Now would be a good time for an apprenticeship for a 16yo who is interested in betting the horses in a couple of years through learning about it. It is a great mental exercise.
When i was 10yo, I would grab my fathers WSJ and check out stocks on the NYSE. ALL my stocks I followed made a nice or huge profit. I had the skill a stockbroker could only dream about. My father wouldn't listen to my picks because I was 10yo so I stopped telling him. But what my father couldn't see was that my age didn't matter because what I lacked in maturity was taken up with a skill. As I matured and became more "educated", I lost that skill even though I am doing well in the Stock market today.
As handicappers, this is what we mean when we talk about "thinking outside the box". In other words, thinking in unconventional but potentially productive ways. I think a serious 16yo can come up with good angles at that age that he will not remember as he becomes "matured" and "educated" just as I did at 10yo.
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10-02-2018, 02:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Light
I want to point out that there is a big difference between a 16yo LEARNING about the mechanics of horse racing and BETTING on horse racing. Now would be a good time for an apprenticeship for a 16yo who is interested in betting the horses in a couple of years through learning about it. It is a great mental exercise.
When i was 10yo, I would grab my fathers WSJ and check out stocks on the NYSE. ALL my stocks I followed made a nice or huge profit. I had the skill a stockbroker could only dream about. My father wouldn't listen to my picks because I was 10yo so I stopped telling him. But what my father couldn't see was that my age didn't matter because what I lacked in maturity was taken up with a skill. As I matured and became more "educated", I lost that skill even though I am doing well in the Stock market today.
As handicappers, this is what we mean when we talk about "thinking outside the box". In other words, thinking in unconventional but potentially productive ways. I think a serious 16yo can come up with good angles at that age that he will not remember as he becomes "matured" and "educated" just as I did at 10yo.
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Light, I learn by writing things down in Hilroy notebooks and I mean EVERYTHING! From my trips to the track, to mentors teaching me the ways of their handicapping, to stats about my selections. And I can remember ANYTHING!
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10-02-2018, 03:02 PM
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The unfortunate side of it is that horse-handicapping has an ADDICTIVE nature...which can become a significant barrier to a young person's conventional educational pursuits. Beyer sacrificed a Harvard education in order to play the horses...and Thaskalos is currently handicapping 5-horse fields at Belmont instead of arguing intricate cases before the Supreme Court. Let the youngsters beware.
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10-02-2018, 03:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CheckMark
And I can remember ANYTHING!
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Really? What did you have for Breakfast on March 17 2017.
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10-02-2018, 04:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Light
Really? What did you have for Breakfast on March 17 2017.
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As a matter of fact I had 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter like I always do!
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