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Old 07-26-2016, 07:26 AM   #17
Tim Y
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It's been a while since I read that book by Pizzola. Are you saying that to compare two horses, you pick the 2 best pace lines from each, and to eliminate one of them, both pace lines of one horse must be better than either pace line of the other? What do you do if there is no horse that qualifies?
Two lines from EACH entrant on grass and eliminate the weakest ones. When TWO lines from the SAME horse rank 1 2, the return is phenomenally consistent...not great mutuels but steady.

If no horse qualifies the odds board beckons as the final arbitrator to see if a wager is made.
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