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To: Hoatzin who wrote (4479)	9/10/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 12810

Kevin, Indeed not. Have you? I thought you were a former DBA I've been a lot of things in my life. I've been a newspaper boy, a grease monkey (literally, for heavy construction equipment), a short order cook, an assistant restaurant manager, served in the Army as a epidemiologist's assistant (worked with meningitis, hepatitis and malaria), an insurance underwriter (originally life & health, later property & casualty), insurance sales, water softener sales (lasted 1 day), a computer programmer and a DBA (the position from which I retired). I was also a volunteer fireman in New Jersey for 11 years. While I was in college, I made my tuition and spending monies gambling on horses (mostly harness racing) and playing penny-ante pinochle in the student union. I made good money on the horses (for a kid). But don't the racing form sheets take purse size of past races into account, not just absolute speed? Is this really some new approach? I presume that you're referring to the selections printed in The Racing Form, the Official Track Program, and those green or yellow or orange "tip" sheets that you buy on the way into the track. There are dozens of ways to handicap races. Each professional handicapper has her or her own system. Some use speed, some use class. Some play the stable or the jockey or the driver. Some have no system. They just make choices, and hype the hell out of any longshots they may happen to hit to drive the next day's sales. Most of them do no better, on average, than you or I could do left to our own wits. KJC

To: Hoatzin who wrote (4479)	9/11/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: Mama Bear	Respond to of 12810

Kevin, you must also remember that English is not Eddy's native language. His native language is German. Barb