Minds Eye

[Pat C.]

Richie,

I have been using RDSS for the past several years with mixed success and have dabbled in The Matchup with less than mixed success
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I have read the Follow-ups, the Yellow Book, the Matchup Manual and Hat's Matchup Book many times. I have recently gone back through the threads in the old Hat Check Forum and several threads really kicked it in gear for me. The '8 Month Update' and the 'Minds Eye' threads.

After FINALLY following the exercises in the Minds Eye thread it is like it all started making sense. I am now seeing patterns and things I've never seen before. Running styles, E and OTE, FPLR, Power lines and actually matching horses. I realize the extreme importance of quieting the mind and not looking back at losing races to make the intuition of the Matchup work. I am still practicing but I am finding more winners and I AM HAVING FUN.

If you have not done so, I highly recommend that everyone serious about the Matchup read a book on intuition, entitled 'BLINK' by Malcolm Gladwell. I found it in my local library. With the exception of Hat's "thousands of races" experience, it comes close to explaining the Hat's uncanny abilities. Some of the Hat's teaching methods that you have so graciously passed on to us are paralleled in the first few chapters. They don't seem quite so nuts now.

Sorry for being so long winded. I just wanted to say Thanks for what you do.

Pat C.

PS: I am an Okie that used to live in the Cookson Hills of Eastern Oklahoma so I can relate to the Hat in alot of things. Just not his handicapping abilities.