more than numbers

[tompkins]

I first used computerized pace numbers based upon Talbout as far back as 83. They worked, but there was something missing.

I treated a fellow who was a trainer and he allowed me to go on the back side. After awhile I was licensed as a hot walker, later as a groom and learned that there is so much more to this game than numbers: training sequences, the peculiarities of the stewards and the racing office, workouts are NOT just timed runs, the equipment involved with keeping a horse running straight or keeping their heads down, the biomechanics of quadraped locomotion etc. NONE of which are inherent in JUST a review of numbers NO MATTER HOW GOOD THEY ARE.

Don't know how you learn this in any other way but to visit the back side and learn first hand.