Jockeys Birthdays

[quetzalchess]

Originally Posted by castaway01

Shouldn't you really be looking up the horse's birthdays?

I also look at the horses biorhythms!

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by quetzalchess

Hello to all


For y handicapping I like to use biorhythms. In order to calculate them its necessary to have the birthday of the horse or jockey. Its easy to get the horse's birthday, but its hard to get all the jockey information. A lot of them can be found on the web (Wikipedia, bio pages, etc), some are found on the media guides of the tracks where they run, but some are really hard to get.

The jockey only interacts with the horse every few weeks at most. I would think that the trainer would have a bigger influence on the horse, and that the trainer's biorhythms would have a much bigger influence on the horse's biorhythms.

Oops! Does a trainer's biorhythms have more or less impact on the horse than the horse's groom?

[mikesal57]

Originally Posted by Clocker

The jockey only interacts with the horse every few weeks at most. I would think that the trainer would have a bigger influence on the horse, and that the trainer's biorhythms would have a much bigger influence on the horse's biorhythms.

Oops! Does a trainer's biorhythms have more or less impact on the horse than the horse's groom?

I tried biorhythms back in the 80's ...

I use it with sports....

I gave up when I bet a pitcher that was on a bad day and went ahead and pitched a no-hitter...

[flatstats]

I don't wish to be rude but forget mumbo jumbo like biorhythms.

Instead try looking at:

Trainers giving live ones to their retained jockeys
Owners giving live ones to their favourite jockeys
Punters overbetting A list ... D list jockeys riding on their birthdays

For the first two you have to try and work out which horse is the live one. For the last one that's easy to avoid if the daily papers and media pundits hype it up.

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by judd

a long time ago used a sports service who rated q/backs biorhythms in football-
and believe it or not it was mostly correct in predicting bad days for the q-back

When I was playing BJ for a living back in the '70s, I tracked all my playing sessions.

The last 12 months that I was able to play, I played 108 sessions. (Most sessions were completed in a single day, but occasionally I had to play across as many as 3 days to "get the money."

A couple of months after I was completely barred from playing anywhere in Las Vegas (not "black-booked" but uninvited) I met a guy who taught me biorhythms.

I looked back in my records and the results I found were quite astonishing.

Of the 108 sessions played, I won 92 and lost 16.

As I recall, of the 16 losers, 8 of them were on critical days.

My biggest loser was on a TRIPLE critical day!

The next 2 biggest losers were on double-critical days!

Remember that I was unaware of biorhythms until well after these days were done.

[Achilles]

So, the conclusion to be drawn from this very erudite discussion is that the horseplayer needs to check his or her own biorhythms. I am sure that thousands of jockeys, trainers and horses (at least the ones who lurk on this forum) will breathe a great sigh of relief.



Q.E.D..............Achilles

[Tom]

"Jose, when is your birthday?"

"June 3rd."

"What year?"

"Every year."