Archive for February, 2010
Pace Picture Techniques
Today I want to go into some ways that you can use the pace picture that will help you organize and do your work as efficiently as possible. But first let me talk a bit about the pace picture and how powerful it can be. That simple little doodle of a pace picture up there [...]
Bring Home the Bacon 1936 Style
One of the biggest bookmakers in the country passed away in 1936. Horse and Jockey magazine wasted no time publishing his secret system. The March 1937 issue revealed for posterity the Bookmaker’s Under-Cover System – “he would certainly get a big chuckle thinking about the consternation of the remaining bookmakers”.
Here are the results of a week’s [...]
The Man Speaks
I’m the proud owner of a Robert Saunders Dowst tome (He got some help from Jay Craig – see the cover). It was published by the Sun Dial Press of NYC in 1940. The copyright is dated 1934. Copies are hard to find. Start with EBay. The book ranks amongst the top five of all the [...]
Pace Makes the Race…Sometimes
You probably know by know that I call myself a pace handicapper. However, I don’t believe that pace makes the race all the time. Pace makes the race when, well, pace can make the race. Many times the least gimpy makes the race. Or the best form makes the race. Or so-called class makes the [...]
Track Profiling
I collect old horse racing magazines – some go back as far as 1898. One of my favorites is from 1925 called A Crystallized Manual by M. P. Walter & Co. Actually, there’s still a lot of pertinent information in that little manual. Every section of the manual has a silk type divider with a [...]
When three powerful factors come together…
One of my favor pastimes is post-mortem analysis. Take a pile of PPs and look for magic keys. Now the cynic will say there are no magic keys in horse racing, and anybody with half a brain can go back and find stuff that works AFTER the race has been run. But there are, really, [...]
CPL/CP/FFR 3+/CSFR/PCZ 5.0 Limit
The month of January has been a good one. Here’s how. It’s called the CPL/CP/FFR 3+/CSFR/PCZ 5.0 Limit. I’ll explain in a minute. First, let’s just say I’m a profile fanatic. You could call the profiles equations, too. When they appear and the price is right I’m a happy person. I know over time I’m [...]
