Quote:
Originally Posted by lbj
from Randy K.
"When Jim would just simply look at a race and toss out most of the field because "they can't win", there was no way to nail down exactly "Why" he decided that."
ATM- March, 1962 RT wrote:
"From what has been said so far, it becomes clear that one of the first step in handicapping a race is to eliminate all animals in the race that DO NOT ENJOY at least, fair current CONDITION. Since a horse can't win if it is not sharp it is a waste of time to figure horses that are sadly lacking in this department. They should eliminated before one starts to figure the race."
Is horse's condition= "why" Jim would toss out most of the field?
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That's part of it, but mainly, I don't think I ever read or listened to anything from Jim Bradshaw that he did not go on and on about SLOW horses, and how you must get them out of the race.
He was talking mostly about messing up your readouts in the programs, but it would certainly apply to matching too.
A lot of times a slow Early horse will have a decent 2nd fraction, but if he was shut down in the 1st fraction and came into the 2nd 6 lengths back, he's not going to figure in the race though he might make something else look worse in the 2nd fraction.
I suspect his slow horse definition encompassed a lot of things, but I've spent a lot of time in recent years trying to get better at identifying how to spot The Hat's SLOW horses.
In the manual entry programs and in the Match Up you just leave them out of the mix. In download programs, it is vital that you actively take them out.