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Originally Posted by racer100
I mean this is fine and dandy..but even if the horse has been worked out often -- how do identify it as a contender if it does not have any lines?? How do you match it against the other contenders that have actual lines?
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The point is, under the Sartin Methodology you can't identify a horse as a contender if it does not have any lines and you can't match it up against the other contenders.
It is not a methodology for first time starters and the near universal reccomendation is that if you have many first time starters or foreign horses with no running lines, you pass the race. If you only have one and it has long odds you can usually ignore it. If a first time starter goes off at short odds you should probably also consider passing the race.
From the very beginning, the Sartin methodology has stated over and over again that it is not for first time starters. You are certainly free to bet on whatever races you choose, but to ask the program to give some sort of apparent legitimacy to something it was never intended to be used for is IMO not a reasonable request and is more akin to putting lipstick on a pig. It would still be a pig.
Dick