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thelyingthief · 04-25-2008, 11:01 PM

What might be of interest to the rest of you is my experience with the methodology:

Ignorant entirely of the game before being introduced to it via some friends, I was without prejudice as to what one could do. I spent nearly two years equipping myself to play the game, betting only during one two month period about mid-way through my learning period. I read only Sartin and his materials, listened to what tapes I could acquire, and attempted to unify my reading with my research. In those days, there were only paper forms available, and I actually fell asleep with them spread all over the bed, my hands begrimed and ink-darkened, graph paper and notebooks under my pillows, only to wake up and go at it again.

When I went to Las Vegas to try my methods, I proceeded to hit 70% winners over the next 4 months (Santa Anita), with an average mutuel over 12 dollars. In one sequence, I hit 21 races in succession. I won. This has not significantly changed since: last year, I handicapped 162 races at Woodbine, of which I passed 22 (neither of my horses, considered as a combined odds pair) went off at odds great enough to warrant a bet: my prime selection in this group won every race. In the remaining 140 races, I hit 60% winners. FOR EVERY DOLLAR I WAGERED IN THESE RACES, I RECEIVED 1.90 BACK. This is the win end. I don't regularly play exactas, although I religiously box my top three candidates when they are over 10 to 1. (I hit two that paid 392 and 336 alone). During one two week stretch, I failed to cash in 1 race.

When I lived in Las Vegas, I chanced to meet Barry Meadows, who was gathering material for a book he was writing, mostly about LV racebooks, but also about computer methodologies. I had my laptop spread, and was crunching some numbers, which he inquired about, asking what programs I used etc. After some discussion, I showed him my wager record book, to which, with some astonishment, he responded: you must be the best handicapper in America. I looked back in equal astonishment, for that had never been my intent or interest. What had been my interest, was to do what Sartin said others were doing. Now, I can't say about them, but I do know about me, and it is a bald faced fact that hard work, the tools supplied by PIRCO, a LOT of independent research, and a refusal to accept the word "CAN'T" as any part of your working hypothesis, will prove that it can be done.

IT CAN BE DONE, AND DON'T LET A SINGLE SOUL EVER TELL YOU OTHERWISE.

I have used these methods to annihilate races, and you can too. I had Keeper Hill, a Frankel filly, when it paid 114 to win, 454 for the exacta, and 1100 for the tri: and for a 400 dollar investment, walked out of that racebook with 50,000 in return. And I absolutely could not have done this, thinking "IT CAN'T BE DONE". And I thank Sartin for publicly stating exactly the same philosophy time and again. I do it, and so can you.

tlt.

04-25-2008, 11:01 PM	#41
thelyingthief Grade 2 Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 88	What might be of interest to the rest of you is my experience with the methodology: Ignorant entirely of the game before being introduced to it via some friends, I was without prejudice as to what one could do. I spent nearly two years equipping myself to play the game, betting only during one two month period about mid-way through my learning period. I read only Sartin and his materials, listened to what tapes I could acquire, and attempted to unify my reading with my research. In those days, there were only paper forms available, and I actually fell asleep with them spread all over the bed, my hands begrimed and ink-darkened, graph paper and notebooks under my pillows, only to wake up and go at it again. When I went to Las Vegas to try my methods, I proceeded to hit 70% winners over the next 4 months (Santa Anita), with an average mutuel over 12 dollars. In one sequence, I hit 21 races in succession. I won. This has not significantly changed since: last year, I handicapped 162 races at Woodbine, of which I passed 22 (neither of my horses, considered as a combined odds pair) went off at odds great enough to warrant a bet: my prime selection in this group won every race. In the remaining 140 races, I hit 60% winners. FOR EVERY DOLLAR I WAGERED IN THESE RACES, I RECEIVED 1.90 BACK. This is the win end. I don't regularly play exactas, although I religiously box my top three candidates when they are over 10 to 1. (I hit two that paid 392 and 336 alone). During one two week stretch, I failed to cash in 1 race. When I lived in Las Vegas, I chanced to meet Barry Meadows, who was gathering material for a book he was writing, mostly about LV racebooks, but also about computer methodologies. I had my laptop spread, and was crunching some numbers, which he inquired about, asking what programs I used etc. After some discussion, I showed him my wager record book, to which, with some astonishment, he responded: you must be the best handicapper in America. I looked back in equal astonishment, for that had never been my intent or interest. What had been my interest, was to do what Sartin said others were doing. Now, I can't say about them, but I do know about me, and it is a bald faced fact that hard work, the tools supplied by PIRCO, a LOT of independent research, and a refusal to accept the word "CAN'T" as any part of your working hypothesis, will prove that it can be done. IT CAN BE DONE, AND DON'T LET A SINGLE SOUL EVER TELL YOU OTHERWISE. I have used these methods to annihilate races, and you can too. I had Keeper Hill, a Frankel filly, when it paid 114 to win, 454 for the exacta, and 1100 for the tri: and for a 400 dollar investment, walked out of that racebook with 50,000 in return. And I absolutely could not have done this, thinking "IT CAN'T BE DONE". And I thank Sartin for publicly stating exactly the same philosophy time and again. I do it, and so can you. tlt.