[VoodooFan]

Richie, I just read your post again about focusing only on the first call to identify running styles. Excellent piece of work. The MatchUp is so exciting and revealing that we get "too anxious" to want to start tearing into the form and tear up the track that we lose the basics, believe me. Something as simple as Running Styles can throw off everything if not mastered correctly, ask me how I know. I believe advanced portions of the MatchUp should not be worried about until total mastery of the basics is achieved. We are so quick to move on to the next step. I've read the FollowUp, Brohamers books, listen to seminar tapes, etc., and when ESP/Running Styles comes up to identify the horse, lots of debate ensues, i.e. Computer generated Energy expenditures vs the Visual Running positions of Horses in the Racing Form. Us not getting this NAILED, will hamper further MatchUp development and leave you wondering why you cannot get it to work. Each step should be mastered, as the 5 steps says, otherwise, you'll have a long and hard time trying to make other MatchUp techinques work. I type this to keep saying this to myself 'cause its so easy to want to just tear into the races. Sometimes, the MatchUp sounds so simple, you think you got it, then move on, when there is a deeper understanding for such simple statements. Again, excellent emphasis on the first call.