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Miff wrote:
"Any decent horse can swallow an overmatched field"
I would be inclined to go even further by saying that even a lousy horse can swallow an overmatched field.
"Who you beat has much to do with greatness,imo."
Yes. And it also has much to do with who shows up.
"FYI,in Zenyatta's previous 5 performances(track profile for her last not avail
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Miff,
What do the horses' odds have to do with whether one should be described as "swallowing" or "inhaling" her opponents? Sounds like a Bill Clinton thing. "Yeah, I took in the smoke, but everybody expected me to take in the smoke. Therefore, what I did should not be called 'inhaling.'"
Also, regarding the "closers bias" in SA synth
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Bobphilo wrote:
"while I agree with your morale, I also see another morale to this story. Never bet someone else's pick blindly, no matter how much you respect them. One only grows and improves in this game by making one's one mistakes."
I find myself disagreeing with your "morale," Bobphilo, and here's why: If you have access to the selections of a prove
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Dana,
Thank you for the reply. There are a couple of things here I feel I should respond to:
You wrote:
"I can see he's mostly going straight by the sheets, and I also believe if you do that in California, you'll eventually get creamed (even Thorographs, forget Ragozin's, you'll commit suicide in 3 months with those out there), but I've found Califor
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Thank you, Miff. I agree that a few things have to go one's way--if for no other reason than to make up for the things that invariably go the opposite way.
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Jack,
You're welcome. Let me make it clear that it was my friend who had the Pick Six. I did nothing except watch, root, and listen.
To answer your questions: He will often put in backup tickets in addition to a main ticket, but he doesn't use the Steve Crist ABC method. He considers it too arbitrary. However, he does agree with the principle behind the method: If you are righ
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Dana666 wrote:
"Would be interesting to see how he/she structured the ticket and the strategy used. That kind of info. is worthwhile."
It was a $2400 ticket: 2X2X5X4X5X3. Note: This amounts to about a one-unit play for him. It wasn't a too-many-eggs-in-one-basket sort of play. It was the kind of play that he could lose early and take it in stride.
As a rule, if he is singl
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