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To: Hoatzin who wrote (4474)	9/10/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Kevin, I can tell you've never handicapped thoroughbreds for a living. His comments about speed horses are correct. In high stakes races, the horse(s) with the fastest times are not necessarily the best bet(s) in the race. In high stakes races, you always look at the class of horses (or the quality of competition) that the horse you're handicapping has recently faced. There is an old racing axiom that "class overcomes speed, always". And it's true often enough to make believers of most handicappers. You go with speed when you're handicapping low priced claiming races or maiden races, but keep a wary eye out for a stable trying to slip a ringer into a cheap race just to get some easy purse monies. In his analogy, class horses usually equate with higher winnings (more money). Hence, "follow the money", another old handicapping axiom, which basically means don't ignore the horse(s) that have been winning the larger purses, because these horses know how to win (hence, "money follows money"). I also think he's referring to the old gambling axiom of "don't chase your own money", meaning if you're having a bad day gambling, don't start betting (usually making more bad wagers) in an attempt to break even for the day. Usually, you end up making a bad day worse. KJC

To: Hoatzin who wrote (4474)	9/10/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Kevin, If I may be so bold as to offer my assistance, my qualifications consist of residing in the great horse racing state of Maryland, home of the Preakness. EDDY'S STATEMENT Eddy Blinker's formula for short term gambling and stock short selling applications: Prepare the ambush, Wait for the opportunity. HIT and RUN. TRANSLATION Find a 7-11 or other convenience store, stake it out, when the opportunity presents itself, grab the cash and run. Use the cash to bet on horses or pay off debts. EDDY'S STATEMENT PS. Sorry Folk's- So far the whole concept stinks. OK. Not because Eddy's formula isn't working but because there is far more detailed work involved as original thought. Hopefully by Breeders Cup Day the situation has improved TRANSLATION Cops in cars are faster then a thief on foot. Hope I can get paroled from the big house before the Breeders Cup. Tom

To: Hoatzin who wrote (4474)	9/11/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: Eddy Blinker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Kevin Watson My dear Watson, I appreciate this last nomination more as any other as my counter on the page clocked up 10 lost souls from the Moron thread. If only one eventually turns out to become a follower of my new approach in evaluating a past performance of a race horse, I am paid in full. The other page daytrader.cc just has a regular base of about a 1000, a day for practical trading news but which on a good day can clock up to 10.000 souls depending on which SI thread I or others put a bait out. Some of them switch over to the horsey scene without the counter clocking. I just don't know. As far as the my freely admitted incoherency is concerned I stand helpless because a) English is not my native b) I am not a professional author with editing facilities and proof reader attached. c) My overjealous dog is presently working on my 3rd dictionary reminding me vividly on my first two legged bitch.. Instead of chewing pages away, that one simply ripped pages out of context from whatever literary piece I was interested in at the moment. I will of course address some of the usual sly remarks on the subject itself after I am finished with my present task which concerns the incredible ignorant performance of todays Western politicians vi-sa-vis Mr.Boris Yeltsin who in my humble opinion is nothing put a replica in character and deed to your Charles H.Keating former Lincoln Savings and loan chief operator. And I deliver to my audience one single argument to illustrate this monstrosity of historical fraud which is still in progress. We are living in times where men in white coats from cookie land arrest their counterparts in competitive places for imposture on their exclusive profession. In order to be properly recognized and identified, they claim you have to have white shoes as well. 400 + pages on the internet about what? A nation full of power lusting morons, unable to spell out-a off duty blow job -in black and white? All that just to inflame the 60% of peoples still favouring his leadership. Or a NASA ploy justifying their financial demands for the erection of a orbital lunatic asylum? ED